LOS ANGELES — Despite dire financial straits, octuplets mother Nadya Suleman said she is still capable of being a good mother and supporting her brood of 14 children.

In an interview with Matt Lauer on the “Today” show Thursday, the Orange County, Calif., woman acknowledged that she is accepting food stamps as a temporary measure to make ends meet.

Suleman, who had vowed not to accept public assistance, said she has been accepting $2,000 a month in food stamps for the last two months. She said she has business ventures in the works to make money, including an online “Octomom TV” project and the release of a horror movie she starred in, “Millenium.”

“I’m working as hard as I possibly can to support them,” she said.

In response to a question about her financial condition deteriorating to the point that social services may be forced to break up her family, Suleman said, “That will never happen. I can guarantee you of that.” She said she has proven people wrong for more than three years by caring for her children, including potty training the octuplets on her own.

“It’s sick and sad and to me, unbelievably fascinating in regard to humanity, how many people are foaming at the mouth that my children be taken away from me,” Suleman told Lauer. She said she doesn’t expect that to change – even 15 years from now when the octuplets are 18.

Suleman is also facing foreclosure on her La Habra home, but her attorney recently told City News Service that those proceedings could be delayed until late April.

The octuplets were born on Jan. 26, 2009, and have become the world’s longest-surviving octuplets. Suleman was quickly dubbed “Octomom” and turned into a symbol of the excesses of assisted reproduction. A single mother, she already had six other children.

Her Beverly Hills fertility specialist, Dr. Michael Kamrava, was stripped of his medical license last year by the state medical board, which ruled that he had violated professional standards by implanting Suleman with 12 embryos she had kept in storage.

Probe: Author mismanaged nonprofit funds

HELENA, Mont. – “Three Cups of Tea” author Greg Mortenson mismanaged the nonprofit organization he co-founded to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and spent millions of dollars of charity money on charter flights, family vacations and personal items, according to an investigative report released Thursday.

Mortenson’s control of the Central Asia Institute went largely unchallenged by its board of directors, which consisted of himself and two people loyal to him, the report prepared by the Montana Attorney General’s office said.

The result was a lack of financial accountability in which large amounts of cash sent overseas were never accounted for. Mortenson must reimburse the charity more than $1 million under a settlement agreement.

His books came under scrutiny last year when reports by “60 Minutes” and author Jon Krakauer alleged that Mortenson fabricated parts of them.

Olbermann sues network over firing

LOS ANGELES – Keith Olbermann is moving his grievances with his former bosses at Current TV from the airwaves to the courtroom, suing the network for more than $50 million and blasting it for what he claims were shoddy values.

Olbermann’s breach-of-contract lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Thursday also seeks a judge’s ruling that he didn’t disparage the network before his firing, and that his former bosses violated his agreement by disclosing how much he was being paid.

The suit makes several attacks on Current co-founder Joel Hyatt and network President David Borman, claiming they were responsible for many of his show’s problems.

Olbermann’s lawsuit comes less than a week after he was fired and two days after he attacked his former employers on David Letterman’s late-night show.