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 handle how her difficult relationship along with her mom has affected her psychological well being through the years, 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 along with his relationship along with his father, Gary sat down with Leah to debate the potential of her speaking to a psychological well being skilled as properly.

Leah shared how certainly one of her buddies at college requested her if she was on a TV present, including that the classmate instructed her she had an outdated Teen Mother clip pop up on her TikTok, to which Gary then requested Leah if she feels “strain” at college from being on tv.

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 I have been seeing a whole lot of TikTok movies with, like, outdated clips and stuff,” she instructed her dad, who requested if she watches clips which can be “painful to look at.”

Leah mentioned she usually sees outdated Teen Mother footage from when she was a toddler.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 you then 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 believe 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 related, tough-to-watch moments.

“I simply suppose I’ve a whole lot of points due to Amber, and the experiences that I’ve had,” she admitted, to which Gary mentioned he needs he might have completed “extra” for his daughter, including that it should be tough for Leah to look at that outdated footage.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 believe it might assist to have somebody to information me on the way to forgive somebody as a result of it is arduous for me to try this,” Leah added, earlier than she opened up about her difficult feelings about her mom in a confessional.

“I am not likely 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 occurring that makes it tough for her to have the ability to be there for me.”

“I really feel prefer it does have an effect on me each day 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 persons are simply gonna depart me for no purpose.”

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 mentioned. “I imply, that simply performs along with her feelings. I believe shifting ahead … you and I simply must go along with what Leah needs.”

Gary agreed, including, “Leah is about to be 16, and she will be able to go to her therapist, and say no matter she needs. So, if she does 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 having the ability to get “to speak to someone.”

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

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

“I do know they talked just a little about her mother, I believe,” Gary revealed, to which Kristina requested if he believed Leah probably 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 someone [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 wished to go to court docket, ‘I can not see my daughter,’” Gary mentioned. “I might be like, good luck! Gonna worsen for you the second you try this as a result of it’s going to 100% change, the whole lot will change.”

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

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 need it to be her ideas, her emotions, I believe that makes it, it sort of places a whole lot of these arduous questions out of my arms and into another person’s arms [who’s] an expert,” he shared. “It is solely Leah [who] issues.”

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