Amber Portwood’s Daughter Leah Shares Why Their Relationship Is ‘Pretend’

On Thursday’s episode of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, Leah, 16, accused her mother of attempting to placed on a entrance for the cameras and claiming they’ve an excellent relationship regardless of their obvious estrangement, with the teenager bluntly calling their relationship “faux.”

Whereas chatting with Teen Mother stars and Amber’s buddies, Catelynn Lowell and Maci Bookout, Catelynn requested Leah for an replace on the place she stands together with her mother.

“When’s the final time you’ve got seen your mom?” Catelynn requested. “I heard you have not seen her since Maci and I’ve been on the market.”

“Yeah that was it,” Leah confirmed, to which Catelynn famous that it was 9 months prior, earlier than asking if Amber reaches out to her by way of textual content or cellphone name.

“She reached out to me one time when she came upon I had bronchial asthma,” Leah shared.

Catelynn famous that she and Maci have instructed Amber that she must “begin exhibiting consistency” if she desires a relationship together with her daughter, to which Leah declared that she’s “simply form of, like, finished.”

“It is an excessive amount of on me if she comes round each, like, yr, a few times, after which acts like the whole lot’s good, and tells me that she’s loves me and hugs me and stuff, like I can not do this,” she stated.

“It is faux. You do not textual content me. You do not see me,” she continued. “After which once you do see me, for the needs of there being a digicam in your face, you attempt to act such as you’re the very best mother ever.”

Nevertheless, Leah clarified that she would not “hate” her mom, who beforehand revealed she was recognized with bipolar dysfunction and borderline character dysfunction.

“I perceive that she has her personal points to take care of and it makes it troublesome, however I simply can’t deal with it myself,” she defined to Catelynn and Maci. “She tells individuals we have now an excellent relationship and I feel she thinks it is my dad’s fault, and I need to clear that up as a result of it is not truthful for her in charge my dad for one thing that I need.”

Leah famous how her dad, Gary Shirley, has continued to encourage her to have a relationship with Amber.

The teenager spoke to her father, who has main custody of Leah, about Amber all through the episode, together with how she did not need her mother to tag alongside on their household journey to New York.

She went on to share extra ideas on Amber.

“Clearly like, I used to be already not wanting a relationship together with her earlier than, as a result of she hasn’t been there,” Leah stated, “however after her latest actions, I do not even need to be close to her at this level.”

She additionally accused her mother of enjoying the “sufferer,” and in search of consideration.

“My whole life, and doubtless earlier than that too, she’s all the time been like this,” Leah stated. “She’s all the time been out to get individuals and simply to verify all the eye’s on her or one thing, and all the time turns herself into the sufferer of the whole lot.”

Gary identified that Amber might not know her daughter’s ideas on their relationship, to which Leah agreed, saying, “Perhaps she would not even know that she’s treating individuals like crap. She must know although.”

“I feel perhaps she would not actually understand that I am the one which has been actively not wanting a relationship together with her,” she added. “I really feel like perhaps I must textual content her or one thing and let her know.”

Earlier within the season, Leah expressed her want to be adopted by her stepmother, Kristina, which Amber later stated left her devastated.

“I believed I used to be already darkish and deep and in a gap from what occurred to me, the incident in North Carolina and him leaving me within the mountains,” she stated in an April episode, referring to ex Gary Wayt abandoning her by completely disappearing.

“However after I came upon about my daughter saying she wished to be adopted, it took over the whole lot. I used to be actually in mattress for 4 months. I spotted I simply wanted my mommy,” she stated, as video of one in every of her social media rages concerning the Leah state of affairs was proven on digicam.

Amber met up together with her mother, Tonya, and shared that with the ability to reconnect together with her mom made her hopeful she’ll at some point be capable to do the identical with Leah.

“I see how my relationship with my mother was fully tumultuous and in the present day I am with my mother, I really like my mother a lot,” she stated to the digicam. “Because of this I’ve hope with Leah. It is simply gonna take me some time.”

Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter airs Thursdays on MTV.