Maci Bookout’s Husband and Ex Lastly Clear the Air on Teen Mother The Subsequent Chapter

Lately, issues between Maci and Ryan have began to enhance, following a string of arrests and rehab stints that left Ryan focusing greater than ever on his sobriety. In keeping with him, within the new episode of the MTV actuality present, he is a yr and 7 months sober after scuffling with drug dependancy prior to now.

After not too long ago celebrating the sixteenth birthday of Ryan and Maci’s son Bentley collectively, Taylor requested Ryan if he wished to go {golfing}, simply the 2 of them — and a digicam crew, in fact — to clear the air between them. Viewers, in fact, will recall severe points between them prior to now, with Taylor as soon as claiming Ryan threatened to “put a bullet” in his head, earlier than Taylor exploded on Ryan’s mother and father, feeling they had been prioritizing their son over Bentley’s well-being.

“I by no means thought I would make it this far,” Ryan instructed Taylor, speaking about his sobriety milestone, after they met as much as golf.

“I believe if I would have met you sober once I first met you, it might be utterly totally different,” Taylor replied. “I type of stored you at arm’s size. I did not wish to make the scenario worse, I simply wished to guard my household. I went about it the fallacious means. Even that argument together with your dad, I had one aim going into that day and it was to not make issues worse and I failed that.”

Ryan then admitted he was a “knucklehead” prior to now, who was simply “getting excessive on a regular basis.”

“I do know that made it rather a lot tougher for everyone. You guys, mother, dad, Bentley, everyone,” he acknowledged.

Because the pair continued to speak, Taylor mentioned he is not certain he knew what he was getting himself into when he first began courting Maci. On the time, he had by no means had a severe girlfriend, and all of a sudden discovered himself in a long-distance relationship with a lady who had a 5-year-old child at dwelling. Ryan, nonetheless, mentioned he actually appreciated Taylor for a way a lot he stepped up.

“I can see you and Bentley have a terrific relationship. You actually love him. I actually admire it,” Ryan instructed him.

“Even after we had been butting heads and hated one another, deep down I wished you to do effectively as a result of on the finish of the day, you are Bentley’s dad,” Taylor replied. “All I do know is it is a hell of rather a lot simpler and a hell of much more enjoyable now. And it is gotta be a helluva lot extra enjoyable for Bentley.”

The 2 then promised that if ever sooner or later issues obtained “tough” between them, they’d “simply discuss it out.”

“If we are able to come out right here and golf as we speak after every thing else, I am certain we are able to give you one thing to repair it,” Ryan added.

After their meet-up, Taylor relayed the dialog to Maci, who appeared shocked Ryan took some accountability for his previous habits by opening up about his dependancy. “First time for every thing!” she exclaimed, earlier than opening up extra about what their one-on-one means for issues going ahead.

“I believe it is vital Ryan and Bentley lastly spent some 1-on-1 time collectively,” she shared in a confessional. “Let’s be sincere, Taylor and Ryan, they ain’t doing s–t they do not wish to do. They needed to have wished to do it for it to occur in any respect.”

She then concluded, “It was a real first step for them genuinely shifting on. I by no means thought it might occur, however higher late than by no means.”

Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter airs Thursdays on MTV.