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 difficult relationship together 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 together with his relationship together with his father, Gary sat down with Leah to debate the opportunity of her speaking to a psychological well being skilled as nicely.

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buddies at college requested her if she was on a TV present, including that the classmate instructed her she had an outdated Teen Mother clip pop up on her TikTok, to which Gary then requested Leah if she feels “stress” at college from being on tv.

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 I have been seeing a number of TikTok movies with, like, outdated clips and stuff,” she instructed her dad, who requested if she watches clips which can be “painful to observe.”

Leah stated she typically sees outdated Teen Mother footage from when she was a toddler. “It is simply bizarre to observe,” she defined. “It is at all times Amber screaming at you, and then you definately 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 observe ‘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 suppose I’ve a number of points due to Amber, and the experiences that I’ve had,” she admitted, to which Gary stated he needs he may have accomplished “extra” for his daughter, including that it have to be troublesome for Leah to observe that outdated footage.

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

“I feel it could assist to have somebody to information me on the right way to forgive somebody as a result of it is onerous for me to do this,” Leah added, earlier than she opened up about her difficult feelings about her mom in a confessional.

“I am not likely positive once 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 daily as a result of I am at all times scared that Kristina’s gonna go away me,” she continued, referring to Gary’s spouse, and her stepmom. “I am at all times scared that individuals are simply gonna go away 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 stated. “I imply, that simply performs together with her feelings. I feel transferring ahead … you and I simply need to 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 does not need her mother to know, that is ultimate.”

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

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 a little bit 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 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 needed to go to court docket, ‘I can not see my daughter,'” Gary stated. “I might be like, good luck! Gonna worsen for you the second you try this as a result of it will one hundred pc change, the whole lot will change.”

“Leah stated 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 decide what she needed, and it would be accomplished.”

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 would like it to be her ideas, her emotions, I feel that makes it, it form of places a number of these onerous questions out of my palms and into another person’s palms [who’s] knowledgeable,” he shared. “It is solely Leah [who] issues.”

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