On Thursday’s Teen Mother, after months of estrangement from Amber, Leah additionally tells her father that she “would not care” if her mother comes round … and, truly, would 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 needs her stepmom, Kristina, to undertake her, however admitted that she’s nervous to carry 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 never actually talked to her shortly or seen her shortly,” Leah instructed Cheyenne, who replied, “I am sorry.”
“It is wonderful,” Leah stated. “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 stated she and Amber are nonetheless not on good phrases.
“Amber, after I do see her, she acts like every thing is completely wonderful, and it is like, ‘I have never 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, probably not. I am scared to.”
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“Clearly, she has numerous 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 handle her “points” stemming from her relationship together with her mom.
Cheyenne stated 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 as if such an ideal child, and I couldn’t think about … not exhibiting up for Ryder,” she stated of her daughter, “and there’s no person [who] may maintain me from exhibiting up for Ryder. No one. 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 on daily basis, attempting to battle for my relationship with my youngster.”
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Later within the episode, Leah has a sit-down together with her dad and Kristina, during which Leah recapped her dialog with Cheyenne, together with how she’s probably not interested by repairing her relationship with Amber, and the way she needs Kristina to undertake her.
“I instructed her I have never actually seen Amber for a pair months, or heard from her, so I actually simply do not care anymore if she comes round,” Leah stated. “I do not really need her do.”
“I additionally talked about how I need 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 be sure you know if it is 100% what you need,” he stated, to which Leah instantly replied, “Yeah.”
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“I do know it’s,” Gary continued. “As soon as that occurs, it’s going to principally be on your mother, for Amber, it might be an enormous heartbreak for her, which I do know you are not attempting to do, nevertheless 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 essentially the most.”
“Together 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 determination.
“I feel I need to communicate to an legal professional, and no less than simply get the knowledge, see what that may entail,” he stated. “That is the subsequent step. I will name a pair attorneys and see what they are saying.”
New episodes of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter air Thursdays on MTV.
