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 a giant 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 deliver 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 not actually talked to her shortly or seen her shortly,” Leah advised Cheyenne, who replied, “I am sorry.”
“It is fantastic,” 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, after I do see her, she acts like every part is completely fantastic, 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 advised Amber how she feels, the 16-year-old replied, “No, probably not. I am scared to.”

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“Clearly, she has lots 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 handle her “points” stemming from her relationship together with her mom.
Cheyenne mentioned she hopes “in the future” 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 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 together with her mother.
“I feel it is simply actually unlucky and unhappy as a result of Leah looks as if such an excellent child, and I couldn’t think about … not displaying up for Ryder,” she mentioned of her daughter, “and there may be no person [who] may preserve me from displaying up for Ryder. No one. Nothing.”
Cheyenne added that it is “actually laborious” 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, making an attempt to struggle 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, through which Leah recapped her dialog with Cheyenne, together with how she’s probably not excited by repairing her relationship with Amber, and the way she needs Kristina to undertake her.
“I advised 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 need you to undertake me,” she advised Kristina. “And I discussed how I have been wanting that for a very long time.”
Gary burdened to Leah that Kristina adopting her can be an enormous step.
“As a father, I need to ensure 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’s going to mainly be to your mother, for Amber, it might be a giant heartbreak for her, which I do know you are not making an attempt 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 increase me.”
“For me, it is no matter you need,” Gary advised his daughter.
Kristina, in the meantime, chimed in, sharing what “scares me probably the most.”
“Together with her being underneath the age of 18, if one thing have been to occur to you,” she advised Gary. “What would occur to Leah?”
Gary then revealed his determination.
“I feel I need to converse to an lawyer, and not less than simply get the data, see what that will entail,” he mentioned. “That is the following 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.