Amber Portwood’s Daughter Leah Begins Remedy to Handle ‘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 begin remedy to handle 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, known as Leah’s dad, Gary Shirley, and revealed how remedy helped him take care of his previous struggles along with his relationship along with his father, Gary sat down with Leah to debate the potential for her speaking to a psychological well being skilled as effectively.

Leah shared how considered one of her associates 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 numerous TikTok movies with, like, previous clips and stuff,” she instructed her dad, who requested if she watches clips which might be “painful to look at.”

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

“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 look at ‘trigger it is little me.”

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

“I simply assume I’ve numerous points due to Amber, and the experiences that I’ve had,” she admitted, to which Gary stated he needs he may have executed “extra” for his daughter, including that it have to be troublesome for Leah to look at that previous footage.

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

“I feel it might assist to have somebody to information me on methods to forgive somebody as a result of it is arduous 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 certain 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 on daily basis as a result of I am all the time scared that Kristina’s gonna go away me,” she continued, referring to Gary’s spouse, and her stepmom. “I am all the time scared that individuals are simply gonna go away 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 should go along with what Leah needs.”

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

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

Cameras did not comply with 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 warranted her that she’s there to help her.

“I do know they talked slightly 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 some extent the place you are giving up on anyone [who’s] given up on you. There is a distinction there.”

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

“Good luck to Amber if she ever needed to go to courtroom, ‘I can not 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 needed, and it would be executed.”

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

“Each time coping with Leah, I would like it to be her ideas, her emotions, I feel that makes it, it form of places numerous these arduous questions out of my palms and into another person’s palms [who’s] an expert,” he shared. “It is solely Leah [who] issues.”

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