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 a giant step in her relationship along 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 carry it as much as Amber.
Whereas at a party 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 superb,” 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 every thing is completely superb, 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 happening 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 deal with her “points” stemming from her relationship along with her mom.
Cheyenne mentioned she hopes “in the future” Leah and Amber can sit down and talk about how they really feel, to which Leah agreed, “I feel it might be good to perhaps in the future have a sit down. I simply do not know when.”
In the meantime, in a confessional, Cheyenne expressed her unhappiness over Leah and Amber’s strained relationship along 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’s no person [who] may maintain 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 footwear, she would “be at their home, rattling close to daily, making an attempt to struggle for my relationship with my little one.”
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Later within the episode, Leah has a sit-down along with her dad and Kristina, by which Leah recapped her dialog with Cheyenne, together with how she’s not likely concerned with 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 careworn to Leah that Kristina adopting her can be an enormous step.
“As a father, I need to be sure 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 mainly be on your mother, for Amber, it might be a giant 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 elevate me.”
“For me, it is no matter you need,” Gary instructed his daughter.
Kristina, in the meantime, chimed in, sharing what “scares me probably the most.”
“Along with her being underneath 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 resolution.
“I feel I need to communicate to an lawyer, and no less than simply get the knowledge, see what that will entail,” he mentioned. “That is the following 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.
