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So we're just leaving la, we're on our way
To the airport to go to philly.
I'm amber rose, I'm here to help my friend, tina.
We grew up in south philly together,
And she's addicted to heroin and crack.
I am a model, I'm a philanthropist, I'm an actress,
And I'm an entrepreneur.
But fame, money, none of that matters when
Someone's addicted to drugs.
I can buy a rehab center for tina,
But she has to want to go.
I don't think I can fix people, and that's why I wanted
To reach out to intervention.
I really don't know how I feel right
Now, like, I'm excited to go and hope for the best.
But I don't know, I just hope she says yes
To going away and getting help.
So I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
[music playing]
Being back in philly, it feels kind of surreal.
It's my hometown, this is where I grew up.
But all in all, I mean, this isn't a vacation for me.
I didn't come here to check in with family or anything
Like that, I'm really here just to find tina.
Tina is one of my best friends that I grew up with.
We've talked on the phone throughout the years.
She'll ask me for a hotel or she'll ask me for food.
But since I stopped giving her money
And she kind of stopped reaching out to me.
I've been back and forth trying to find
Tina, getting her for a second, and then
Her kind of going ghost.
We couldn't find her again.
If tina doesn't say yes, the rate that she's going,
She's not going to make it.
The next time I come to philly, I'm going to be at her funeral.
My biggest concern with tina is she has to say yes
And most importantly, we have to find her for her to say yes.
Tina is missing somewhere in kensington,
And I know that she moves around a lot.
So I'm going to hire a private investigator to find her.
Kensington is a jungle.
There's a lot of guns, violence, and there's a lot of drugs.
I can't believe my friend is out there right now.
Kevin ryan: Hello.
Hey, kevin.
It's amber rose.
I heard that you look for missing people,
And my friend tina is missing in kensington.
Kevin ryan: How long has she been missing?
Well, her daughter sees her periodically,
But she's from one house to another or in the street.
So it's kind of hard to track her down.
Kevin ryan: Ok.
You don't mind texting me a picture of her?
Sure.
Kevin ryan: Anything you can think of, my phone's always on.
Ok.
Thank you, we'll keep in touch.
Kevin ryan: Bye bye.
Bye.
[music playing]
Right now, we're going to our old neighborhood
Where we were early teenagers.
I met tina probably in the first grade.
We've known each other our whole lives.
Yeah, this is our house right here.
We had some good times here, it was fun.
I would ride my bike up here and use her computer
For my myspace profile.
And we used to kind of just sit on the step,
Smoke cigarettes, talk (bleep).
I was very young.
And I used to tell tina, I'm moving to hollywood,
I'm going to be famous.
And she was like, well, I'm going to have babies.
Ultimately, she wanted to be a mom.
But I used to tell tina, like, tin, let's go,
Let's get out of here.
All my friends were on drugs.
Tina was not on drugs at the time.
Growing up, I was surrounded by heroin and crack.
Not from my mother but within my immediate family.
I just didn't want to do it, I saw what it did to people.
I chose to look at that and take a different route.
I got on the train one day to new
York, probably 19 years old.
Found a little apartment, started dancing out there.
And I just knew that I didn't want to be here anymore.
Then she had latina, her daughter.
I said, ok, you got your baby.
Let's get the hell up out of here.
And she just wanted different.
Her mother actually, I want to say overdosed
Up the street up here.
When they found her, she was in a house down the street.
Her mother was a crack addict, and in 2009,
She smoked crack and choked on her throw up in her sleep.
And this is where tina found out her mom passed away.
I think that really just goes to show you
I have much less than tina as far as like, she had a house,
I had a one bedroom apartment.
We didn't have a car, we didn't have money, I was very poor.
But I had a lot of love for my mom.
I had a whole lot of love and she didn't.
She didn't get that love because her mom was on drugs
And her dad was an alcoholic.
And they didn't give her the hugs
And kisses that she needed.
You know.
I guess life can sway you in different ways.
[music playing]
Today's Thursday, and I'm getting ready to go to the club
Where I work at.
My name is latina, and tina is my mom.
Amber rose: Tina has four daughters.
The two youngest ones are adopted by a family member.
And lanyah, she's in foster care, she's 17.
And latina is 19, and she's living all her own.
I just want to hurry up and finish because if I'm late,
I got to pay a higher house fee.
Once in a blue life, whenever she
Feels like going down to kensington,
That's when I see my mom in a trap house.
I really couldn't depend on her for a lot of stuff.
So I texted amber a couple of years ago, and I told her yeah,
I was selling drugs and stuff.
And she was like, "you got to get a job."
I wanted to get latina off the streets
Because she was selling drugs.
She was not doing drugs, she was selling drugs.
I look much older, much older and when
I put my heels and my makeup and everything on.
I got her a job at the club that I used to work at.
It's a very reputable club.
And listen, I was a stripper, it's an honest living.
You're safe, you can make hundreds of a night
If not thousands.
Hey.
So good to see you.
Me and latina talk on the phone a lot,
But it's been probably a little over five years
Since I saw her.
And she looks so grown.
How do you think your mom is going
To react to the intervention?
I think that she's going to be kind of angry at me
Because I never told her.
But you know you're doing the right thing.
Even if she gets angry, I'mma put all the blame on myself.
If she wants to be mad at anybody,
She could be mad at me.
I'm proud of her.
We all grew up in a lot of dysfunction,
But tina's daughters have the opportunity to break the cycle
And not go down the same path as their mother
And their grandmother.
I was out having a family today in the midwest
And got the call, and I was asked to come help
Another family in philadelphia.
To me, it's important to get there
On the street in kensington and do as much help as I can,
Because there's a lot of hopeless people
Out there right now.
And I hope I can make a change and make
A difference in somebody's life there in philadelphia.
[music playing]
This is more dangerous now than it was.
A lot more dangerous.
My name is kevin ryan, I'm a missing person investigator.
There's a lot at stake in going into kensington
And looking for a missing person.
Safety is paramount when we do these types of extra occasions.
Amber contacted me to locate tina
Who's been down in kensington for a couple of years.
Kensington is a very, very rough area,
It's a very high drug, prostitution, and crime area.
But there's going to be people that
Are going to know who she is, and people
That have seen her before.
Oh, (bleep).
Producer 1: What's the matter?
We've got to be careful with these guys.
If we get boxed here, we are not getting out of the vehicle
At all.
Oh, (bleep).
We're getting surrounded.
Put the camera down.
Camera down.
(bleep).
They were definitely trying to figure out what we're doing.
They want to look cool, they want
To feel like they're the cream of the crop down here.
[music playing]
We're on our way to sal's house, which is tina's brother.
And I'm just going to go talk to him,
See what news he has about tina, just gauge what's going on.
Hey.
Hi, how are you.
Hi.
How you doing?
Good to see you.
You too.
Took so long.
Sal was basically the pesky little brother.
I consider sal family.
How's it going?
As far as me, I can't complain.
We're many now.
You've been clean for three years now.
Yeah.
God bless, sal.
So proud of you.
I started doing prescription medication when I was young.
I want to say, I might have been like, 14.
It winded up just getting the best of me.
It became my norm.
You know what I mean?
Popping xanax, percocets, whatever.
Just self-medicate.
Have you spoken to tina?
No, last time I talked to her was like a month ago.
She reads my messages on facebook but don't respond.
She's like a needle in a haystack
Trying to find on there.
We're kind of all we had growing up,
But we was always by each other's side.
And I think my mother's death kind of affected both of us.
Tina didn't touch her drugs till she was 23.
And once I guess she got a taste of the lifestyle,
It was kind of hard for her to try to turn around.
Tina is like my sister, and a part of me wants to like--
I'm mad at her.
I can't fully understand how you watched what
Your mother did to you and now you're
Doing this to your daughters.
Like, I want to beat her ass.
And I say that with love.
I have this guy, he looks for missing people.
He's out there looking for her right now.
And I just keep in touch with you the next couple of days.
Yeah.
Her bringing a private investigator on
Is an added bonus.
And I'm hopeful that he can find tina,
And then we can do what we have to do to try to make
Her go away and get clean.
Thank you so much.
Hi, babe.
How are you?
How are you doing?
It's been so long.
It was amazing seeing lanyah, she's grown so much,
She's so beautiful and smart.
Oh, my god.
Hi, babe.
Hey.
Hi, guys.
Hi, how are you?
How's everybody doing?
How are you?
I'm michael, by the way.
Nice to meet you, michael.
Little stressed, little nervous?
Yeah?
Why?
I don't think anybody has gotten my mom
To stop doing what she's doing.
And I want her to be able to do it just
Because she wants to do it.
What is the biggest thing that you think
Is blocking her from another chance at life?
I think it's she doesn't have the mindset
That she wants to get clean, that she
Wants to live a good life.
So she's not going to do that.
Because she doesn't--
I came here-- that's why I said didn't want to talk about this.
I know it hurts.
But the more information that I have,
The better I'm going to be able to help her.
Before your mom got on drugs, I was there.
And she loved you guys so much.
She put you guys to bed every night, she fed you guys.
This is not your mom, it's the drugs.
Y'all got to know that.
And that's why we're doing this.
Having family members that are on drugs,
Sometimes you really do become numb to it.
And you can still tell that lanyah really loves her mom.
And she doesn't have a significant other
During all of this?
Her boyfriend is a good person.
He doesn't beat on her or make her
Give him her money or anything.
Them being young girls, because he's not beating her,
Because she's not giving him the money,
They think that that's a good person.
So this morning I was told that tina's boyfriend,
He wants a pretty face to smoke crack with.
And that's the honest to god truth.
He feeds her drugs, he makes a lot of money,
And he doesn't let her out of his sight.
Well, what I hear you saying right now
Is he's a sugar daddy.
Yes.
And just because he's not beating her doesn't mean that--
He doesn't need to be around her.
The severity of this intervention is huge.
So I have a question.
Is anybody else going to be at the intervention?
It's us and maybe sal.
Who do you not want to be there?
Is there something that I need to know?
I don't know how my mom is really going to react
To victoria being there.
Tina's brother, sal, that's his girlfriend, right?
She has a lot of energy, she's very loud.
She's a good person, it's just--
She rubs her the wrong way?
I think it is best if it's just us three and sal and you.
I need to dig a little bit more
And find out what's going on so I can better make a decision,
So we can better help your mom.
She's got trauma, like, she's got it all guys.
All of it.
And that's because she lives in kensington.
You can't be in that lifestyle and expect
Her to listen to you either.
It'll be thrown in your guys' face.
I used to sell drugs but ever since amber got me my job,
She said, you're not being in those houses anymore,
You're not selling drugs anymore.
You're a young lady, you got no business in a trap house.
A trap house is an abandoned house and you get drugs,
And you prostitute.
And by any means necessary to get high,
That's what you're going to do.
The traumas that we experience through all this stuff
Are horrendous, guys.
If you guys don't address your trauma with a therapist
And start living a different life,
You guys are going to fall back too.
We need to help you guys from making the same mistakes over
And over again.
The goal is to get out of this place.
You living this way, it's normal, but it's not.
So we've received a tip on tina's whereabouts
Up in the north kensington area.
So we're going to head up there right now.
And we're going to do a stake out on this property.
Hopefully, we will be able to see tina
Either entering or exiting.
See, this is a thing when we do surveillance,
We only got one shot of this.
We have not seen tina yet.
We've been sitting here for hours now.
Stand by.
All right, we got a white male, approximately 5' 8".
And he's got a goatee.
That's going to match the description of the boyfriend.
He's walking into our target house.
Now that we have positively identified the boyfriend,
I am very confident that tina has a reason
To be either inside the house at this time
Or living at this property.
Hey, kevin.
Kevin ryan: Hey, amber.
What's going on?
Kevin ryan: Well, I found tina.
Oh, wow.
Ok.
Where is she?
Kevin ryan: So she's living at a house,
I confirm that she is there with her boyfriend.
Ok.
There's no way we can get to her there?
Kevin ryan: No, definitely not.
I definitely don't want anybody to put
Themselves or her in jeopardy.
Is it possible for me to get her a place to stay
Or maybe I can rent something?
Kevin ryan: For safety reasons, that would be the best thing.
Ok.
Let me start working on that, and then
I guess I'll call you back.
I'll keep you posted.
Thank you so much, kevin.
So hopefully they find her and they bring her to the airbnb
So we can go through this intervention.
That's the most important thing.
I appreciate you guys taking the time to sit with me.
I think it's important that I get the family's
Perspective on what's going on.
We tried multiple times, both of us to get our way for help,
And we're just not getting no results from it.
We've tried everything from taking care of her kids
To reaching out and helping her.
Shortly after me and sal got together,
Tina lost custody of her kids.
And we took custody of the two older girls.
But latina obviously is an adult now,
And lanyah is in foster care.
The last time that we've seen tina
Was the time I went to get her away.
Hell, what happened was me and him talked to her,
And she agreed to go away.
And then he took her to the place.
And no sooner than maybe a half an hour later, he called me
And he's like, I'm dropping her back over to kensington.
She had every excuse in the book, she's not ready.
It is what it is.
You know, she's caught an addiction,
And she's not making the right decisions
Because she's not capable.
Not everybody can make that decision to get sober.
All right, and we're definitely
Here with full support.
And she knows that.
So we're going to do everything
We can to make sure that we get her to where she needs to go.
I'm hoping that we can all come together as a unit
Looking for the same goal.
That's all it needs to be.
The information they gave me, it was very crucial.
And the way victoria was described to me
Is completely inaccurate.
These two people are totally loving
Family members that want to help,
And they want to see her succeed.
The first time I saw my mom doing drugs,
I was really young, I can't even remember.
Now, she pretty much does it around me all the time.
I don't get angry about it, she's just
Another one of those people.
These are all like empty caps.
I got to clean this out.
This is from yesterday.
That's all from today?
Yesterday.
I still got more in here.
Oh, my god.
Look at the bottom there.
Yesterday, that was $260.
And then today, $120.
And then that's not including my dope.
Producer 1: Which dope?
Heroin.
Well, it's not even heroin anymore, it's fentanyl.
And I can't do that in front of you guys
Because when I do that, I'm incapacitated.
It's bad.
My drug use is getting out of control.
My worst fear from my mom, fentanyl
Is a really powerful drug.
I don't know what I would do if I lost my mom.
I don't know.
I really never had anybody telling
Me to my face everything good what was going on
Was not normal.
What michael was saying, I thought it was normal.
I did.
Some people, they love philly because it's
Where they came from.
But I don't like being here.
Producer 2: Does it make you want to get out of here?
Now that I hear everybody saying like it's not good
And it's not healthy and stuff, I do want to leave.
I don't want to be here forever.
[music playing]
Lanyah.
(door knock)
Lanyah: I don't want to talk to you.
Bye.
Get the (bleep) out of here.
He's (bleep) so lying.
I'm (bleep), I need xanax right now.
Growing up, my mom, she was in my life
But she focused on other men.
She wasn't focused on kids.
You guys are driving me nuts.
Can you please stop and go to the entry.
I went to go get a xanax.
I'm having a panic attack, and you guys
Are starting your (bleep).
So I'm getting burnt out.
I'm being shrank so thin, I'm between breaking
You and her up, trying to break myself and him the (bleep) up.
Well, everybody heard you and him arguing all night.
Yeah, because I got a referee.
Growing up, I was in foster homes,
And I really couldn't depend on my mom.
Like important events in my life, she wasn't there.
I haven't done dope since (bleep)
Yesterday at 4:00 o'clock.
I'm ready to (bleep) do it now.
I just want to have somebody I can count on,
Somebody I can really talk to, just
Somebody just be there for me.
Mom, please, don't do this to me.
I'm going to only be gone for like an hour.
She's not coming back.
She doesn't really want to have a connection with anybody else
Anymore.
She only looks at people for what they do for her.
[music playing]
I miss your mom and she--
She was the best.
She was really like a aunt to me.
I really loved her so much.
I really did.
I was very devastated when she passed.
I really was.
This is about interacting with the family
And getting a plan together.
Our family is like a little chaos.
Yeah, I get it.
Not everybody sees the same thing.
You guys don't see eye to eye on everything,
But that's why we're meeting right now.
After meeting with the family yesterday, I'm
A little nervous.
But really, the truth is I need to get the family wrangled in
And get them on the same page.
Hey, guys.
Hi, how are you doing?
How are you doing?
Hello.
Hey, how are you?
Good to see you.
Hey, girls.
No texting, nothing?
You want act up right now because you on it?
I don't want to hear it.
Yeah, I know it was your phone.
Get out of here.
This is pissing me off.
Hold on, wait.
Wait one second.
What's going on? - She's going to be too much.
I don't have time for her, I don't.
When I saw victoria, I felt like nobody listened to me,
Nobody took what I said into consideration.
All right, guys.
It's going to be a tough one.
It is.
And it starts with tina.
And we're going to offer her a gift, she deserves that.
But the only way to do that is to get our ducks in a row.
And you guys are making me nervous.
At every turn, there's something going on.
So if there's something going on that we can fix,
Let's fix it for tina.
Um.
When we first got custody of latina and lanyah,
Me and latina bumped heads.
I just thought she was just so disrespectful.
And then once I really opened up my heart
And had a more open mind, I can't imagine the feeling
Of not having parents.
I mean, the girls will literally sit in the crack house
That she lives in just to be around tina and just to I
Guess fill the void that they've been missing
Their entire life with her.
What's up?
What's going on?
I just feel as though--
Victoria, don't take this any type of way
At all because I love you.
I just feel as though--
I don't know how to say it.
Say what you got to say, latina,
Because I'm here for it.
I can't.
I can't say it out.
So I can tell you what, I know what's going on,
Is she feels like you're fake.
That's it. That's the issue we're having.
That's what she told me.
Being fake as in how?
Yeah.
I don't think that you know her as well as you're saying
Or like, you know?
Who said that I know her as well as anything?
Hold on one second.
I wasn't fake when I was running down
Kensington avenue trying to--
I'm done.
I don't even care.
I don't care.
Don't run.
Latina, sit down.
Latina, come here.
- Just stop. - No.
Stop.
No.
Latina, listen to me.
She doesn't know my mom.
She doesn't know her.
I'm not going to hear the words fake
Coming out of nobody's mouth, especially latina.
I took care of her with no (bleep)
Cheque from the government, no (bleep)
Food stamps, no nothing.
I told her you're like a daughter to me.
I love you like a daughter.
My mom, she said she don't like her.
Listen to me, this is not about you, it's not about her,
It's not about me, it's about your mom.
Let me ask you a question, latina.
Can you please, stop? Please.
Relax, what are you so upset for?
I just don't want to talk about it right now, please.
Latina.
She feels like she can't get her point across.
Yeah.
This family is good at making and distracting.
There's just a lot of moving pieces to this intervention.
If I don't get the family on the same page,
The intervention is not going to work.
You guys are addicted to chaos.
She has to be able to hear the message.
And if we're all yelling at each other,
She's not going to hear the message.
So I don't want you to be upset.
I think moving forward with the intervention,
It's just strictly the family.
So you're going to be involved but not until after.
And it has nothing actually to do with you.
I know.
Not coming to the intervention, it's
Just a hard pill to swallow.
I just have to chalk it up because everybody
Has their own reality.
I'll still continue to be there, and I just
Obviously hope for the best.
And that's all that I can really hope for.
There's going to be some emotions
But she wants help, guys.
She wants help.
Ok?
Ok.
You guys try to have a good night, ok?
- You too. - You too.
Thank you, guys.
I wanted to bring you guys together and talk to you
About what's going on because this situation
Is just, it's uncontrollable.
All the chaos, it's got to stop.
We want to intervene on everybody,
And we want to make sure that everybody leaves
Today and goes to treatment.
You know, in the beginning of the intervention,
I thought I was intervening on one person,
I realized that I'm now intervening on three people.
I think that latina was stuck in the cycle of kensington.
But lanyah, she's young, she's being
Exposed to things that she shouldn't be exposed to.
Michael told me that they're actually going
To try to get the girls help.
They're in a lot of trauma, a lot of drama, a lot of turmoil.
Amber, I think that you're the key.
And I think that if we come together, me and you,
And we go to intervene on the girls, that they'll lead
And they'll listen to you.
[music playing]
Today is the intervention.
I'm excited.
My mom's finally going to hear everything
We have to say and know that everybody's here for her.
And we're here for you too.
Thank you.
We have essentially a gift for you.
We want you to go to california too
And go somewhere to deal with the trauma
That you've been through.
I think it's a great idea.
And we can leave today.
We want to help you.
It's set up perfectly, it has nothing
To do with anything other than dealing with trauma
And getting past all this stuff.
I would take it girl.
Thank you.
Yes?
Yes.
I'm so happy.
Now let's get your mom and your sister on the same page
Too, right? - Yeah.
That's the goal.
[music playing]
I don't want her overwhelmed if we come in and rush her.
That's my only concern.
I'm sorry I took a xanax.
Why xanax?
I took a xanax for my nerves.
Oh, (bleep).
Anxiety.
It's all good.
I'm taking a hit real quick.
I have to.
This calms me down.
Sal, he should be here.
Today is my mother's birthday.
My mom was my best friend and my mom got high.
Even though she did (bleep) up sometimes,
That was still my mother.
I hated her drug use.
And I became what I hated.
Tina.
Are you going to go with me to get my haircut?
Tina.
Hi, babe.
Oh, my god.
How are you?
Hug me babe.
It's ok.
I just don't want you to see me like this.
I know. It's ok.
I love you.
I love you too.
I missed you so much.
I want my sister back.
I'm glad to see you, though.
Me too, this is my friend, mike.
Hi, mike.
How are you?
I'm really grateful that you're
Even willing to talk to us.
I mean, I do.
I want to get clean.
You know what else?
She's also going.
That's my baby.
And she's getting some help today too.
I love you baby.
I love you too.
And all you have to do is say yes.
I have to leave like right now, though.
Yes.
I want to call my boyfriend, like, what's going on
And stuff.
We can do all of that in the car.
Are you saying yes?
I mean, of course, I'm going to take the opportunity.
I don't have insurance to do anything.
Hey, you don't think you don't need
To worry about any of that.
Your whole life is changing today.
Say hello.
Ny.
Lanyah: So you're going to go?
Yeah, I'm going to go.
But I got to go right now.
Lanyah: I. Know.
Are you crying?
Lanyah: No.
Can I talk to her?
Lanyah, we're also offering you help for your trauma.
That's stuff that's been going on with your family.
Lanyah: I can't go.
Ny, listen to me, right?
Lanyah: No, no, no.
You listen to me, mom.
You're trying to separate us.
No, we're not.
That's not what we're doing.
[phone beeping]
She's scared because of everything
That they've been through.
I need to pee really big.
I need you to be a big girl, lanyah, no one's
Trying to separate you guys.
We would never do that.
Producer 2: I think you need to go get tina.
I'm serious, babe.
It's detrimental.
You know what that means?
Can we get amber up here?
Producer 2: Yeah, we need amber.
She said yes, that she wanted to go.
But she said she had to go pee, and I knew what it was.
As soon as she lets us come in,
We just need you to walk her to the car.
She wanted to get high.
Can you please unlock the door?
When the withdrawal starts taking place,
That's what we're faced with right now.
She either lives or dies, you know that.
She's going to go.
Amber rose: You're just addicted babe.
We have a nurse with you.
Latina's leaving babe.
So you're not going?
Tina: That's not what I said latina.
I'm going.
Tina: I know you're going.
And that's ok.
Tina, let me in.
I don't care if you're smoking crack, bro.
Tina: I need my phone.
Ok, we'll get your phone.
One of our biggest concerns is if the boyfriend comes here.
We don't want that, we don't want another situation.
Tina: I really don't give a (bleep) about life no more.
My life's over.
Tina, your life isn't over.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be here.
Amber rose: You can start your life over in california
And be out of this cold, dark place.
Tina: All latina cares about is her (bleep) self.
She (bleep) set me up.
I don't even want nothing to do with her.
Amber rose: I set you up, tina.
Tina: No, she set me up.
Amber rose: I called her, babe.
She is constantly calling these people names
That she's supposedly loves.
You know, we were listening to the drugs talk.
It wasn't her.
Tina: I want my phone.
I want to call my boyfriend.
Amber rose: He's giving you money to smoke crack, tina.
Tina: Amber, he gives me money to go--
Amber rose: Ok, but that's not love, you know that.
That's enough, tina.
You smoke a lot babe.
She smoked 20 rocks, but I couldn't leave that bathroom
Because if I left the bathroom, she was going
To shoot dope and maybe od.
Tina: I want my (bleep) phone.
Give me my phone.
Give me my (bleep) phone.
Tina: Once I get my phone, then we can go.
Amber rose: You promised me?
Tina: Amber, I promise.
Amber rose: You promise me.
What's up?
How do we make this work?
She started texting her boyfriend.
And I got to be honest with you, I literally hate his guts.
Talk to me, how do we make this work?
I don't know.
I don't like the way things went down.
I just don't like it.
I'm a grown ass woman, I make my own (bleep) decisions.
What the (bleep) if my daughter dies while I'm out there?
I did it with my mother, amber.
I lost my mother, and I was arguing and I didn't tell--
Your kids are going to lose you.
Producer 1: You ever been on a plane before?
No, I've never been anywhere besides philly.
I feel different emotions right now.
I'm scared because I've never been there before.
I'm nervous, I'm excited.
If I leave here and you don't go to california, tina,
The next time I come here I'm going to have to bury you.
Will you please say yes and get in the car and go?
Please.
I was going to go, I was fine with it.
But all the other (bleep), it just burnt me out.
Just try it for me.
I'll be in california with you, I'll check up on you.
But I want to see my daughter.
I don't want to be around all this.
There's really no reason for this, tina.
In the process of her coming outside and walking
Down the street, she was in communications
With her boyfriend.
She wanted him to come get her.
Where is the (bleep) car?
I don't like being lied to.
Tina.
Where are you at?
Where?
Because I'm under the l. Please, I
Want to get the (bleep) out of here before I (bleep) go ballistic.
Tina, can we stop this?
Where's the (bleep) car?
I really hope that my mom takes this as something
Good and not anything that I did to harm her.
And that little bitch left.
She's said to me this morning, you promise
You won't hate me regardless?
Now, I know why she said what she said.
Tina, you asked for something and we did it.
She doesn't want to go.
I'm going in my (bleep) car right (bleep) now.
[interposing voices]
Tina, I'm going to go.
Tina, you gave me your word and now
You're going back on it.
Tina, don't go.
She's going to die.
She's going to die, bro.
Her boyfriend showed up.
She got in the car and so did lanyah.
[music playing]
Her poor daughter.
I don't know if there's hope for tina.
With the drugs on top of her natural personality,
I don't think she'll ever get clean.
I can leave here knowing that I tried my best to get her to go,
But at least her daughter gets something great out of it.
[music playing]
How's it going, latina?
Hi.
Welcome.
Welcome to oak forest.
Nice to meet you.
I don't think that latina's had
Any really solid, healthy family system
Or role models to grow up with.
And she struggles.
Here, come on in.
What we really want to provide here at oak forest
Is a place where we can stop the noise,
Engage into life with healthy role models, and to see
And be taught how to build a sustainable life.
This is your first time leaving philly, right?
Yeah.
I think this is going to be an experience that you
Certainly won't regret.
I feel like this experience is going
To be positive because I'm doing it for me and not
For anybody else.
Before I came here, I was always miserable and angry.
And now, I am happy.
Hi, how are you babe
Oak forest is helping me figure myself out.
I'm learning how to accept people being there
And not pushing people away.
How's everything been?
It's been good.
I've been in like a more positive mindset.
It feels good to have people you can like rely on.
Latina's doing really well.
This girl, when she got here, extremely resistant.
And today she loves being supported by this community,
And she's putting in the work.
Do you feel like your feelings changed about your mom?
Yeah, I'm more understanding with her
And she is not like, oh, yeah, I'm going to go get help.
It's a hard decision for her to really make.
How has it going with lanyah?
She's still down there.
I don't want her to do that, but part of my program is accepting
That I cannot change people.
I can just pray for her, that's all I could do.
It's such a good place to be.
It is.
Just to know that you can just let
Go and just focus on yourself to be a different person.
Because I don't want to be that person anymore.
I really don't.
I'm happy to see you smiling.
She absolutely wanted a different life.
She knew that there was something wrong.
She knew that that's not where she was supposed to be.
And then she's out here, she's happy,
She doesn't want to go back to philly,
She doesn't want that life anymore.
It's a beautiful thing.
I'm happy I did it.
Me too.
Thank you for believing in me.
I love you so much.
[music playing]