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 begin remedy to handle how her sophisticated 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 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 one in every of her associates at college requested her if she was on a TV present, including that the classmate advised her she had an outdated Teen Mother clip pop up on her TikTok, to which Gary then requested Leah if she feels “stress” at college from being on tv.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 I have been seeing a variety of TikTok movies with, like, outdated clips and stuff,” she advised her dad, who requested if she watches clips which might be “painful to look at.”

Leah mentioned she typically sees outdated Teen Mother footage from when she was a toddler.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 then you definately 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 minimize 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 variety of points due to Amber, and the experiences that I’ve had,” she admitted, to which Gary mentioned he needs he may have achieved “extra” for his daughter, including that it have to be troublesome for Leah to look at that outdated footage.

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

“I believe it will assist to have somebody to information me on the best way to forgive somebody as a result of it is exhausting for me to try this,” Leah added, earlier than she opened up about her sophisticated 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 occurring 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 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 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 mentioned. “I imply, that simply performs together with her feelings. I believe transferring ahead … you and I simply need to go along with what Leah desires.”

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

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 any individual.”

Cameras did not observe Leah into her appointment, and after, Gary advised 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 assist her.

“I do know they talked a little bit about her mother, I believe,” 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 any individual [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 am unable to see my daughter,'” Gary mentioned. “I might be like, good luck! Gonna worsen for you the second you do this as a result of it’s going to 100% change, every thing will change.”

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

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 believe that makes it, it type of places a variety of these exhausting questions out of my arms and into another person’s arms [who’s] knowledgeable,” he shared. “It is solely Leah [who] issues.”

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