Leah Messer & Ex Corey Simms Have Powerful Dialog with Daughter Over Her Wheelchair Resistance

On Thursday’s episode of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, the fact star, her ex-husband Corey Simms, and Ali’s twin, Aleeah, expressed their issues over Ali’s resistance to utilizing her wheelchair.

First, Leah sat down for a dialog with Ali, telling her daughter that, per her physician, she wants to make use of her wheelchair when strolling lengthy distances, reminiscent of a highschool soccer recreation. This after a battle between the pair within the premiere over that actual scenario.

A defiant Ali asserted that she won’t use the wheelchair when she does not want it.

“I needn’t [use the wheelchair.] If I needn’t, then I am not going to,” she informed her mother. “It is not so far as you suppose. It is actually not.”

Whereas Leah stated her daughter must “take into consideration her future,” Ali once more argued that she is aware of her physique finest on the subject of her situation, which she was recognized with in 2014.

“I am telling you I do not want it on a regular basis,” she stated to her mother and twin, who then additionally joined the dialog. “I informed you I did not want it on the soccer recreation and you are like, ‘Yeah, you do.'”

Leah calmly defined to Ali that she must not “over fatigue” herself, whereas Ali continued to get heated and claimed she’s not overdoing it.

Aleeah then stepped in, agreeing with their mother.

“Your physician even stated you are not imagined to as a result of it will probably damage your muscle tissues,” the teenager stated. “What you do want to comprehend is that you simply do have muscular dystrophy. And when you do an excessive amount of, it may be life-threatening. You understand that you simply weren’t imagined to stay to the age of 16 at first, proper? And after our dad and mom have adopted the foundations and have helped you, you’ll be able to. If you happen to proceed to know what’s higher for you, you’ll stay a wholesome regular life.”

Ali once more argued that she is aware of “what’s higher” for her personal physique, to which Aleeah stated their dad and mom know what’s finest for them. After Ali tried to protest, Aleeah famous a fall her twin took within the kitchen. Ali claimed she slipped on water, however Leah stated the issue is she will’t “catch” herself as simply as different folks can.

“This is the distinction between having muscular dystrophy and never. While you hit that water, you instantly worn out,” Aleeah stated, to which Leah added, “Like you may’t catch your self. You do not have the reflexes.”

Leah opened up in regards to the scenario in a confessional, saying that she and Corey are a “united entrance” and must confront Ali about it collectively.

“Ali has coated up anger for some time, not having the ability to do sure issues, and now she’s within the mindset of ‘I am going to do that whether or not you prefer it or not,'” she informed the MTV cameras.

“Corey and I’ve conversations on a regular basis about this,” she added. “If me and her dad may have this dialog along with her, it simply reveals that regardless that we’re in separate houses, we come collectively. We’re a united entrance. I simply suppose as her mother, I wish to hold her secure.”

Whereas taking Ali and Aleeah to fulfill their dad, Leah and Corey had a dialog about how they should confront Ali about her continued resistance to utilizing her wheelchair.

Corey defined how they taught Ali to “use her voice a lot” however now they will “have quite a lot of twister, little twisters pop up” as a result of Ali is doing what they taught her to do. Leah replied that it is “so arduous” as a result of their daughter “hasn’t accepted that she has muscular dystrophy but.”

“If I inform her, ‘You will not be strolling behind folks’ or ‘Individuals will not be serving to you.’ She’s like, ‘Properly, I will not ask for nothing!’ She’s very strong-willed, and I like that,” she stated, to which Corey admitted that he feels “responsible” that they did not “implement” the wheelchair extra when Ali was youthful.

Corey added that they don’t seem to be “trying previous” the progress Ali has made, noting how medical doctors stated if she wasn’t strolling by a sure age, she most likely would by no means stroll.

Leah then received the ladies out of the automobile, and Corey and Ali addressed their twins.

Corey introduced up the soccer recreation, telling Ali that whereas he and her mother are “proud” of her progress and the way she’s “tackled” her situation, “it takes one second for an accident to occur.” Corey used an instance of Ali falling on “uneven floor” and tearing her ACL, saying that an harm like that might be “much more troublesome to beat.”

He calmly assured Ali to make use of her wheelchair as a “device,” earlier than she instantly chimed in, “after I want it.” Nonetheless, Corey informed Ali that she’ll must do what her dad and mom imagine is finest for her.

“If there is a time that both of us really feel that there is a time you want it, you may have to make use of it,” Corey stated to Ali, who requested, “Properly, what if I do not suppose I want it?”

“Properly, if we expect you do, then that is what it’s,” he replied.

Whereas the teenager argued that it is “not truthful,” Corey stated he and Leah have the ultimate phrase.

“I perceive it is arduous, but when there is a time that you simply may not wish to [use it] and we expect you do, then that is the way it’s gonna be,” he repeated, to which Ali replied with a resigned, “Okay.”

In a confessional, Leah broke down in tears over her daughter’s hidden “ache.”

“I am unable to think about how Ali feels. If something it hurts me that she feels that ache,” she stated, getting choked up. “And he or she’s not getting it out.”

She started to cry as she continued.

“I really feel offended for her,” Leah informed the cameras. “So I am unable to think about. If I really feel offended and I really feel ache for her as she’s attempting to course of this, I ponder how she actually feels deep down inside.”

In an interview with TooFab forward of the brand new season of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter final month, Leah spoke in regards to the challenges she faces to guard her daughter amid her situation, whereas additionally encouraging her to make her personal choices.

“It is a problem. Most likely one of many hardest issues I’ve gone via this far with being a mother and navigating her having muscular dystrophy,” Leah stated. “And realizing the best way to hold her secure, and likewise permitting her to be impartial and get round similar to everybody else. … There is no actually no solutions. You get to be secure.”

“The rationale why we have been capable of preserve the power that she has now could be via bodily remedy. And actually conserving the whole lot sort of stabilized with having muscular dystrophy, however she’s additionally received a voice, and she will use it,” she continued. “And we’re discovering steadiness in all of that as a result of I need her to make use of her voice and been instructing her, you already know, to talk up and use your voice.”

“We’re working via it, and we’ll proceed to do this,” Leah added.

Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter airs Thursdays on MTV.