On Thursday’s Teen Mother, after months of estrangement from Amber, Leah additionally tells her father that she “does not care” if her mother comes round … and, truly, does not need her to.
Amber Portwood’s daughter, Leah Shirley, is able to take an enormous step in her relationship together with her stepmother.
Throughout Thursday’s new episode of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, Leah expressed how she desires her stepmom, Kristina, to undertake her, however admitted that she’s nervous to deliver it as much as Amber.
Whereas at a birthday celebration for Jade Cline’s daughter Kloie, Leah opened up with Cheyenne Floyd about her shut relationship with Kristina, and gave an replace on her strained relationship with Amber.
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“I have not actually talked to her shortly or seen her shortly,” Leah instructed Cheyenne, who replied, “I am sorry.”
“It is high-quality,” Leah mentioned. “I do not actually care anymore.”
“I sort of need Kristina to undertake me,” the teenager continued of her stepmom, who has been married to her dad, Gary Shirley, since 2015. “I have been wanting it for some time. … Kristina has been right here for me since I used to be in kindergarten, and I feel earlier than that too.”
In distinction, Leah mentioned she and Amber are nonetheless not on good phrases.
“Amber, once I do see her, she acts like all the pieces is completely high-quality, and it is like, ‘I have not seen you in months. Why are you speaking to me?’” she shared.
When Cheyenne requested Leah if she’s ever instructed Amber how she feels, the 16-year-old replied, “No, not likely. I am scared to.”
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“Clearly, she has plenty of issues occurring and plenty of difficulties. However I simply, I really feel like I am unable to deal with it. I want I may, however I am unable to,” added Leah, who revealed final episode that she began remedy to handle her “points” stemming from her relationship together with her mom.
Cheyenne mentioned she hopes “at some point” Leah and Amber can sit down and focus on how they really feel, to which Leah agreed, “I feel it might be good to possibly at some point have a sit down. I simply do not know when.”
In the meantime, in a confessional, Cheyenne expressed her disappointment over Leah and Amber’s strained relationship together with her mother.
“I feel it is simply actually unlucky and unhappy as a result of Leah looks like such an amazing child, and I couldn’t think about … not displaying up for Ryder,” she mentioned of her daughter, “and there may be no one [who] may preserve me from displaying up for Ryder. No person. Nothing.”
Cheyenne added that it is “actually arduous” for her to “perceive,” noting that if she was in Amber’s sneakers, she would “be at their home, rattling close to day by day, making an attempt to battle for my relationship with my little one.”
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Later within the episode, Leah has a sit-down together with her dad and Kristina, through which Leah recapped her dialog with Cheyenne, together with how she’s not likely keen on repairing her relationship with Amber, and the way she desires Kristina to undertake her.
“I instructed her I have not actually seen Amber for a pair months, or heard from her, so I actually simply do not care anymore if she comes round,” Leah mentioned. “I do not really need her do.”
“I additionally talked about how I would like you to undertake me,” she instructed Kristina. “And I discussed how I have been wanting that for a very long time.”
Gary harassed to Leah that Kristina adopting her can be an enormous step.
“As a father, I need to ensure you know if it is 100% what you need,” he mentioned, to which Leah instantly replied, “Yeah.”
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“I do know it’s,” Gary continued. “As soon as that occurs, it will principally be on your mother, for Amber, it might be an enormous heartbreak for her, which I do know you are not making an attempt to do, however it’s simply a part of the method.”
Leah famous that she’s conscious, however once more reiterated that she “really need[s]” Kristina to undertake her, including that Amber “did not increase me.”
“For me, it is no matter you need,” Gary instructed his daughter.
Kristina, in the meantime, chimed in, sharing what “scares me essentially the most.”
“Along with her being below the age of 18, if one thing have been to occur to you,” she instructed Gary. “What would occur to Leah?”
Gary then revealed his determination.
“I feel I need to converse to an lawyer, and at the very least simply get the data, see what that will entail,” he mentioned. “That is the subsequent step. I’ll name a pair attorneys and see what they are saying.”
New episodes of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter air Thursdays on MTV.
