Amber Portwood’s Daughter Leah Begins Remedy to Tackle ‘Points’ with Estranged Mom on Teen Mother

Throughout Thursday’s new episode of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, the 16-year-old actuality star made the choice to start out remedy to deal with how her sophisticated relationship together with her mom has affected her psychological well being over time, with Leah revealing that she suffers from “abandonment points.”

After Catelynn Lowell’s husband, Tyler, referred to as Leah’s dad, Gary Shirley, and revealed how remedy helped him cope with his previous struggles together with his relationship together with his father, Gary sat down with Leah to debate the opportunity of her speaking to a psychological well being skilled as properly.

Leah shared how one among her mates in school requested her if she was on a TV present, including that the classmate instructed her she had an previous Teen Mother clip pop up on her TikTok, to which Gary then requested Leah if she feels “stress” in school from being on tv.

“It is simply bizarre. I have been seeing a number of TikTok movies with, like, previous clips and stuff,” she instructed her dad, who requested if she watches clips which can be “painful to observe.”

Leah stated she usually sees previous Teen Mother footage from when she was a toddler. “It is simply bizarre to observe,” she defined. “It is all the time Amber screaming at you, and then you definitely depart.”

“After which there’s one clip the place she’s yelling, like, ‘Why is Leah crying?'” she continued. “When she’s in a exact opposite room, simply leaving me. And it is simply bizarre. I feel these are simply painful to observe ‘trigger it is little me.”

The present then minimize to the clip Leah was referring to, with Amber yelling at Gary from one other room as child Leah cried, earlier than displaying different related, tough-to-watch moments.

“I simply suppose I’ve a number of points due to Amber, and the experiences that I’ve had,” she admitted, to which Gary stated he needs he might have finished “extra” for his daughter, including that it have to be troublesome for Leah to observe that previous footage.

Gary then instructed remedy, and Leah agreed, noting that she desires to have the ability to “overcome” her trauma, “forgive” Amber, and “transfer on.”

“I feel it will assist to have somebody to information me on learn how to forgive somebody as a result of it is laborious for me to try this,” Leah added, earlier than she opened up about her sophisticated feelings about her mom in a confessional.

“I am probably not positive after I realized when she wasn’t there, however I do know I do have abandonment points from her not being round,” she shared. “However I do know that there is a lot happening that makes it troublesome for her to have the ability to be there for me.”

“I really feel prefer it does have an effect on me daily as a result of I am all the time scared that Kristina’s gonna depart me,” she continued, referring to Gary’s spouse, and her stepmom. “I am all the time scared that individuals are simply gonna depart me for no cause.”

Later within the episode, Gary defined to Kristina that he had made a remedy appointment for Leah, with Kristina noting how lengthy it has been since Leah has seen Amber.

“We’re at 4 months once more with no contact,” Kristina stated. “I imply, that simply performs together with her feelings. I feel shifting ahead … you and I simply need to go along with what Leah desires.”

Gary agreed, including, “Leah is about to be 16, and she will be able to go to her therapist, and say no matter she desires. So, if she would not need her mother to know, that is last.”

Gary drove Leah to her first remedy appointment, together with his daughter saying that she was feeling “good” about having the ability to get “to speak to any person.”

Cameras did not observe Leah into her appointment, and after, Gary instructed Kristina that Leah “did not actually discuss a lot” to him about it after both, including that he did not “wish to pry.”

Kristina shared that she spoke to Leah and guaranteed her that she’s there to assist her.

“I do know they talked a bit of about her mother, I feel,” Gary revealed, to which Kristina requested if he believed Leah doubtlessly attending remedy with Amber “would ever be useful.”

“No,” Gary instantly replied. “Now, it is to a degree the place you are giving up on any person [who’s] given up on you. There is a distinction there.”

He added that Leah has “constructed a boundary” to guard herself from “getting harm.”

“Good luck to Amber if she ever wished to go to courtroom, ‘I am unable to see my daughter,'” Gary stated. “I would be like, good luck! Gonna worsen for you the second you do this as a result of it will one hundred pc change, the whole lot will change.”

“Leah stated if she was ever compelled to go there, she would run away,” Kristina instructed Gary, who laughed, earlier than including, “She would run away, however she would inform the decide what she wished, and it might be finished.”

In a confessional, Gary — who has had full custody of Leah since 2011 — confused that his precedence is his daughter, and placing her “first.”

“At any time when coping with Leah, I would like it to be her ideas, her emotions, I feel that makes it, it sort of places a number of these laborious questions out of my palms and into another person’s palms [who’s] knowledgeable,” he shared. “It is solely Leah [who] issues.”

New episodes of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter air Thursdays on MTV.