- Your kid sucks. - Did you just say my kid sucks?
Wicked old witch. - Woo, I'm flyin' away.
- Hi everyone, I'm Christi Lukasiak,
and on this episode of Dance Moms: Epic Showdowns...
- Your kids arms are horrendous.
Get off your mother's lap, stand up, grow up.
- Get ready to relive the most cringe worthy...
- Abby, I can't even believe you just did that.
- Gasp inducing...
- I need you to get your crowns,
and get 'em on that table.
- And just downright twisted moments.
- Your daughter's a little snake!
- How dare you call my daughter--
- Snake, snake.
- This is Dance Moms: Epic Showdowns,
"That's Messed Up!"
You have sabotaged by daughter and the rest of the kids!
- Your daughter's a little snake!
- How Abby and I got to this messed up place,
well, that's a long story,
so let's back up.
My daughter, Chloe,
and Kelly's daughter, Paige,
had been begging Abby for a duet forever.
- Chloe, you have asked me for years
about a duet with you and Paige,
this is the week.
- [Christi] But when Abby finally gave them the chance,
Paige got injured
and was replaced by guess who.
- Hi, guys.
- In walks Kendall and her mother Jill,
who could always be counted on to sniff out an opportunity
for her little Kendall.
Kendall?
- Oh for the love of God.
[upbeat music]
[audience cheering]
- Was the duet good? Yes.
Were they a good pair? Yes.
Did they drive the intensity home at the end?
No.
- [Announcer] Your top overall junior duet/trio,
Chloe and Kendall from Abby Lee Dance Company!
[audience cheering]
- Congratulations, ladies.
- Thank you.
- Talk about drop dead diva, you are the diva.
- Aww, Chlo.
She didn't get to dance with Paige,
she was paired with Kendall, who wasn't even on the team yet,
but she still won.
And all Abby could do was rub Maddie's role
in the TV show, "Drop Dead Diva"
in everyone's faces.
- Listen, I blocked out the whole
"Drop Dead Diva" routine, so can you show it to me?
I'm sure everyone else wants to see it too.
[tense music]
- You're just kind of rubbing this in everybody's face.
- I'm not rubbing it in everybody's face.
Where is she going?
- [Holly] I don't know where she's going.
- Because of the vultures in this room--
- And you know what, you know who creates the vultures?
It's you, because you try to
turn all of these kids against their friend.
And I have heard you say, to her,
to that little nine year old girl,
"No one would be happy for you, everyone's jealous of you."
- You are, look at you! - No, we're not!
No, we're not.
You have sabotaged my daughter and the rest of the kids!
- Your daughter's a little snake!
- How dare you call my daughter a sneak?
- Snake, snake, snake!
- She's not a sneak, you're a sneak and a snake!
- She is talented.
- [Christi] Yes, she is, nobody's denying it.
- Relish it, because in five years,
she might not be talented anymore.
- Why do you try to turn her-- - Look at Brooke.
- [Christi] Against her friends?
- Don't say my daughter isn't talented anymore.
- [Abby] That's not what I just said.
- You just said, "In five years, she might not be
talented anymore, look at Brooke."
- She could be hurt, she may never dance again.
- Everybody's talented.
Everyone in this room is talented,
and if you really-- - You're not.
- Oh, please, I have more talent in my pinky than you.
- Why, 'cause you're a whore selling tee shirts in the bar?
- Oh, Abby, whore.
Whore, whore, whore.
Or as Kelly would say,
"Maybe you're a virgin because no one would screw you."
- I've had it with these moms.
They're rude and they're nasty,
and they're jealous of a little nine-year-old girl
who got a part on a television show.
Au revoir.
- Typical Abby, when things don't go her way,
she's out of there.
- Your kids arms are horrendous.
They're, like, gargantuan. - Ava's arms are not--
- She looks like a praying mantis.
[dramatic music]
- Abby has zero filter.
If she thought it, she said it.
- She looks too old. - Why not?
- You would have to cut her in half.
- And the words she spewed at Jeanette's daughter, Ava,
well, that's messed up.
- My biggest concern this week is Ava.
- [Christi] In the rehearsals for the Drizzle number,
Ava just couldn't nail the choreography.
- [Abby] I'm hoping this umbrella is going to help
hide the flaws.
But she's having trouble maneuvering the prop around.
- And what came out of Abby's mouth next
would make any mother lose their mind.
- Your kids arms are horrendous.
They're, like, gargantuan. - Ava's arms are not--
- She looks like a praying mantis.
- They are not horrendous.
- Yes, they are horrendous.
- Ava can't do anything about her long limbs.
- Yes, she can, we can control them.
We can fix them.
The umbrella's not going anywhere.
- [Announcer] Please help me welcome Ava in Drizzle.
[upbeat music]
- I want to address the umbrella situation.
- [Jeanette] We knew it'd break.
- No, you have this attitude, "We knew it would break."
Listen, honey, no child of mine
has ever gone on that stage
and had that happen, completely inside out.
Ava, I don't think you're the right fit.
- But the really messed up part
happened when Ave and Jeanette came back.
- Hi, guys.
- Did they think I've lost my mind,
that I didn't remember kicking them out?
- I thought you guys were gone. - Another one.
- How are you? - Good, how are you?
- Good.
Let's take this off.
Thank you.
You were cut from the team.
- When was she cut?
- [Abby] Chloe, step forward.
- Not when I was in there. - This is time number three.
- Ava, stand next to Chloe.
- Who does this to their kid?
- Ava, you're too tall for us today, you're cut.
Thank you, you can go.
Get out.
- Ava got out, all right, and she went to a studio
where she became one of the ALDC's biggest rivals.
[audience cheering]
- Girls, I just wanna tell you
Maddie was instructed to do this,
and I see your faces, and I feel really bad.
- You are taking her successes and you're squashing them down.
- [Christi] We all knew that Maddie was Abby's favorite.
- I need you to get your crowns and get 'em on that table.
- But one of the most messed up moments
that I've ever seen, is when Abby
made that child flaunt her crowns
in front of the rest of the ALDC.
- I had her bring her crowns in because I want her to realize
that this is something to be proud of.
Rub it in their faces if you have to.
Running out of room.
- I didn't wanna show all the crowns to the girls,
but I followed the rules and I did it.
But then the moms kind of got mad,
and I didn't like that at all.
- But, Melissa, why would you bring them?
- She told me to.
- [Kelly] But when she tells you to bring them,
say, "No, my daughter's uncomfortable--"
- [Melissa] She is uncomfortable.
- "Doing this in front of her friends."
- Then Melissa did something that she hardly ever did.
She stood up to Abby, kind of.
- Girls, I just wanna tell you,
I don't want you to think
that Maddie's doing this to make you feel bad.
Maddie was instructed to do this,
and I see your faces, and I feel really bad.
- I'm sick of hearing it,
and you are taking her successes,
and you're squashing them down.
- What happened, Melissa?
What did she say to you?
- We squash every victory because,
you know, we don't want people to hate her,
people to hate me.
- Well, tell Abby, "Kiss my ass, I'm not bringing them in.
It's rude."
We realize that our kids aren't stupid,
they realize it.
- But Abby Lee Miller thought everyone was stupid,
and she acted accordingly.
[gentle music]
Abby's teaching methods were questionable
on a good day.
On a bad day, we got moments like this little gem.
- I know, but that's dangerous.
What if she was at Radio City Music Hall
and the thing was open for the ice skating rink to come out,
and she did a side aerial,
and fell 13 stories down and died, huh?
[gentle music]
- So that we wouldn't catch on.
- As usual, the ALDC mastermind was up to no good.
- I have never done anything like this before.
- She sure hadn't.
Abby was at her most messed up
when she hatched her evil plan to pit my daughter, Chloe,
directly against Melissa's daughter, Maddie.
- I've decided that Maddie and Chloe
should do the same exact solos.
Why? Because I am sick and tired of hearing Christi
go on and on about the choreography.
If you wanna do what Maddie's doing, game on.
- And this was all just to teach me some twisted lesson.
- So that we wouldn't catch on.
- It's do or die time.
Christi, it's time for you to put up and shut up.
[gentle music]
- Chloe danced beautifully,
and if I were Melissa and Maddie, I'd be worried.
[gentle music]
[audience cheering]
- And in first place,
entry number 19, from Abby Lee Dance Company...
- I wanted Chloe's win to prove to Abby
that once and for all, Chloe was a force to be reckoned with.
But the truly messed up part of this saga
was yet to come.
- Abby said it in front of the other moms,
"I'm surprised Chloe won."
- Chloe was finally on top,
but Abby had one last sinister move,
and this one was evil personified.
- We had a goof.
One of our judges, they gave Chloe a 99.10,
she actually had a 96.6.
Because they gave her a 27.5 in a category
that only had 25 points.
That means that the overall winner would have been Maddie.
- Congratulations, Maddie.
- [Abby] Thank you so much, We appreciate that.
- Yes, I'm sorry.
- Hey, you know, things happen.
Woohoo!
Maddie and Chloe, congratulations
on being great sports.
Mistakes happen.
- Chloe and Maddie's scores were the only ones
out of the entire competition,
with 80 some routines, that were incorrect.
Are you kidding?
- Tricking Maddie and Chloe
into doing identical choreography for their solos
was a new low for Abby.
And after Chloe beat Maddie, we were shocked to find out
that the judges had, "made a mistake."
Are you kidding me that it just so happened
that Chloe and Maddie's scores were the only ones
out of the entire competition,
with 80 some routines, that were incorrect?
Are you kidding?
- How did you discover the discrepancy
between the 30 point and the 25 point?
- I didn't, it came to me.
I guess the judges said there's a problem,
we have a problem.
- I'm sorry. - Yes.
- You okay? I stole your score sheets.
I kept 'em.
Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
- [Abby] Oh.
[tense music]
- And that wasn't even my most messed up moment with Abby.
I will have that epic showdown later in the show.
- Bus driver, keep going straight.
[intense music]
- [Christi] Our kids weren't the only ones
who had to put up with Abby's wrath.
- Chloe, your feet shouldn't fly up in the air like that!
Quit practicing it wrong!
- You're screaming in little kids' faces.
- "Little kids' faces."
- It was also really messed up
how she treated the poor bus drivers.
- Bus driver, can you hear me?
How come you came this way?
Why didn't you go down Road I right onto the parkway?
The parkway would have been a straight shot
and a lot faster.
Bus driver Jim, why didn't we jump on the turnpike
and hit 79 the other way
so we would miss all the traffic?
Bus driver, if you go out of here
and go to the right, we're gonna take two streets,
and hit the parkway.
- "Bus driver."
- Keep going straight.
- I think if Brynn had a brain in her head,
she would know-- - Do not call my child stupid.
- Look, we've all had our messed up moments,
but Jill's most messed up moment,
well, it's a doozy.
- I can't stand Ashlee
thinking Brynn is the next Maddie.
Kendall K has been groomed to be the next star.
- [Christi] Ashlee's daughter, Brynn,
was the new girl on the block,
and when Brynn was Kendall's back up for the solo,
Jill got territorial.
- [Jill] I think Brynn should be dancing behind Kendall,
not in her way, just saying.
- [Ashlee] I think she thinks she's off to the side, honestly.
- Look, here goes Kendall, Brynn's right in front of her.
- Is Abby and the choreographer both in there?
- Yes.
- If it was a problem they would tell her, don't you think?
- That's when Jill said the worst thing
I've ever heard her say.
- I think if Brynn had a brain in her head,
she would know to back off. - Do not call my child stupid.
- If she had a brain in her head--
- I don't have to sit here and listen to you bash my kid!
- Bye.
[intense music]
- I am getting no end of hate
because Brynn is in the front instead of being in the back.
If they wanted her moved,
you guys would tell her, am I right?
- That's right. - Thank you very much.
- Abby, why is Brynn on Kendall's side, in her way,
when she's trying to dance, making a mockery of her?
- Jill, she wasn't making a mockery of anyone,
that's very vindictive, she wasn't doing that.
- You're gonna stick up for Brynn.
- Why can't Kendall just open up her own mouth,
and say, "You're in my way, move"?
- Why can't Brynn have a brain and sit in the back?
- And then Jill, she broke the cardinal rule of dance moms,
she reprimanded someone else's kids.
- Brynn, you need to learn,
when the kids are learning their solos,
you stay out of their way.
- I know, but I wasn't dancing in front of her.
- Honey, don't talk back to a grownup,
just say, "Okay, I'll stay out of her way."
Got it?
- [Ashlee] Are you guys yelling at Brynn?
- Go ask your kid what I said!
- She said I was dancing in front of Kendall and I wasn't.
She said you don't talk back to a grownup
and I wasn't even dancing in front of her.
- I know.
What is wrong with you?
- Regardless of what went down between them,
Jill knew she had nothing to worry about,
and she was right,
proving Abby's not the only one who can get away with saying
pretty much anything at the ALDC.
- Go get her. - What did she do?
- Go get her, Liza. - Turn around, Abby.
Why would you do that to my daughter?
[dramatic music]
- The worst thing that could ever happen happened,
the ALDC lost to the Candy Apples.
- We're celebrating.
We thought we would come and bring a cake for all of you.
Abby, would you like the end piece with all the icing?
- Or do you want us to stab the fork in your eyes?
- We know that Cathy was trying to get a reaction from Abby,
but what Abby said next to Liza's daughter Chloe was low,
even for Abby.
- Do you want some cake?
- Abby, I can't even believe you just did that!
- Go get her. - What'd she do?
- Go get her, Liza. - What'd she do?
- Abby, I can't believe you just did that to my daughter.
- Everyone knows this girl is a beautiful dancer,
but what Abby said is horrible.
Abby's just mad that we lost.
- My daughter was in there and saw that.
- She's gotta come up with something
and that's all she could come up with, trust me.
- When we watch you dance, we go, "Ahh!"
- You're beautiful, mm-hmm, and she knows it.
- Can we get Abby's tongue pinned back?
Muzzle? Etiquette class?
- She has more class in her little finger at 13
than you have at 45.
- [Abby] Chloe is finished!
- Okay, here we go,
the most messed up moment I've ever had with Abby.
When Abby selected Chloe to compete
against Jodie's daughter, Kamryn, for the second time,
it led to what was the end of Chloe, me, and the ALDC.
- Chloe, I suggest you get in front of a mirror
and you work on your confidence.
- It's no secret that Abby was not happy
when Chloe beat Kamryn the last time
they went head to head.
This time, it seems like Abby's not gonna take any chances,
and she's just gonna give Chloe substandard choreography
to make sure that Kamryn beats her this time.
The pressure was on and Chloe felt it, we all did.
- Chloe is doing a beautiful contemporary piece,
entitled, "Soaring".
Will she soar or will she continue to spiral downwards
to be mediocre?
[tense music]
Fly through four-- Ugh, go back.
- Abby's constant criticism of Chloe
was wearing her down,
and she was losing that spark.
And Abby blamed me, of course.
- Get her leg up there, and teach her to Releve
on her big toe and the ball of her foot.
- That's your job.
That's what I pay you for, baby.
- Right? - She's there, you're not.
You haven't been here all week.
Sorry, you've checked out, Abby, we all know it.
- I can handle it.
The kids are doing great.
When your kid sucks, don't put it on me.
- [gasps] Did you just say my kid sucks?
Wicked old witch, talking (bleep) on a kid.
- Woo, I'm flying away.
- Good, I hope you get run over by a truck.
And then, I took my anger out on Chloe.
It's gotta come from you, Chloe.
I can't keep giving you the same pep talk
over and over and over.
I can't make you wanna dance.
Whatever.
I'm sorry that I got frustrated with you.
- I know that I've been not dancing as good,
but it's like,
- Don't, no, no, I know.
You know what, you go out there and you dance for you,
'cause that's what you used to do.
[upbeat music]
[audience applauding]
Chloe came in fifth and beat Kamryn for the second time.
- I don't know how she pulled it off.
I really don't.
- She pulled it off because Chloe's the better dancer.
- We're not jealous of anyone. - Yes, you are.
And your kid doesn't have the technique, she does.
- No, you know what, Abby, that's on you.
You're her technique teacher.
And that, go ahead, say awful things about my daughter.
Abby didn't care if Kamryn won nationals,
she wanted Kamryn to beat Chloe.
She has more class in her little finger at 13
than you have at 45.
- [Abby] Chloe is finished!
Your kid's washed up.
- How dare you?
Do you know anything about that kid?
No!
Gotta draw the line, enough's enough.
How low of a human being can she be?
She can't stand when my daughter
does anything in spite of her.
This isn't about dance,
this is about human decency.
You all right?
- What?
- You heard.
As a mom, I can't sit by
and watch this woman destroy my child anymore.
Let's go, Chlo.
It's really sad that Chloe was part of
the winning group dance,
and she had the highest scoring ALDC solo,
and this is how her national ends.
- I still wanna dance, I still wanna do this,
but I don't wanna do it with her anymore.
- Abby put us through hell, but I made sure neither of us
had to go through that ever again.
That was our final season at the ALDC.