- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪
- Previously on "Teen Mom: Family Reunion"...
- Everybody is dropping like flies because of COVID.
- [coughing]
- I feel drained.
- So you want to reach out to the Edwards
to see if they'll come out
for a healthier dynamic for Bentley?
- So I texted Jen to see if she could
or was willing to come out here.
Hopefully we can get to a better place, but who knows?
- I was ignorant to a lot that my dad was dealing with.
- What was he dealing with, Kiaya?
- Well, he overdosed.
I thought he would always be here.
[soft dramatic music]
- So I'm having a special engagement party
for Jade tonight.
I'm so excited Sean's coming.
- Surprise!
[all cheering]
- Jade and Sean are getting married!
- Yeah, whoo!
[The Chainsmokers and Kygo's "Family"]
- ♪♪ I know some people ♪♪
♪♪ They would die for me, die for me ♪♪
♪♪ We run together, they're my family ♪♪
♪♪ I'll say forever, my family ♪♪
- ♪♪ What I want, this is what I want ♪♪
- I'm just happy I made it almost to the end.
- COVID-free.
- Now at this point, it's Amber,
Cate, and April that has COVID.
Kayla also has it, and then her mom too.
So I feel like half of us
has either had to leave or has COVID now.
At least Sean and Zach are here with us.
- [bleep] COVID. Let's clean this house.
I'm too close to the end of the reunion.
Hopefully, I don't get exposed.
I'm getting kind of nervous because everybody
is catching it, and I'm just praying
every day, literally on my knees
praying that I don't get COVID.
- You should never be this excited to clean up.
- Yeah, I'm excited as [bleep].
- Where did you even find these?
- I feel like the hazmat suit makes me feel
like I'm in a dangerous situation.
So I guess the hazmat suit's making me want
to, like, disinfect more. I don't know.
Germs stand no chance again just us.
- Whoo!
- COVID will die in this house today.
[laughing]
- ♪♪ We go right now, looking at a star right now ♪♪
- I actually like this hazmat suit.
I might bring it home with me.
- ♪♪ Looking at a star right now ♪♪
♪♪ Looking at a star ♪♪
- Whoo!
[upbeat hip-hop music]
- One thing about Kiaya, she's gonna twerk.
But in the hazmat suit, so much ass.
[chuckling] So much going on.
[bleep]. - Bad bitches kill bad germs.
- Period.
- ♪♪ It's my life ♪♪
♪♪ I'm gonna own it ♪♪
♪♪ Doing what I want ♪♪
[upbeat pop music]
- ♪♪ I'm gonna own it ♪♪
- That wasn't good. That wasn't good either.
Oh, no. Oh, no, what am I doing?
♪♪ ♪♪
I hate this club. Not even gonna waste my time.
[phone ringing]
- Hello.
- Hey, I was trying to see if you were gonna
come over to the house. - No, they won't let me.
I tested positive for COVID.
- What? Are you feeling OK?
- Yeah, I feel fine.
So I'll be in here by myself
for the next-- who knows how many days?
At least five.
- Oh, my goodness.
This reunion, me and my mom, we've grown so much,
and it sucks 'cause I can't just be like,
"Oh, let me go give her a hug"
because she's quarantining.
So you're not even having any symptoms?
You're just positive?
- [coughs] Yeah.
COVID [bleep] sucks. [coughs]
No contact with the outside world.
[coughs] And I've--
Perfect. I'm having a great time.
What a vacay.
All right, I love you. - I love you too.
I'll check in with you later.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I wish they had, like, a shower--
I'm just throwing a bench in that shower.
- Don't want to--probably would scratch the bathtub.
- Yeah.
I mean, for three straight days,
I woke up every day thinking it was, like, the same day.
Like, when all the girls leave the house at night,
can't I go use the hot tub if nobody's there?
- I don't know. - It's outside.
- Quarantine is [bleep]. I hate it.
I can't-- I'm losing my mind.
Cate's losing her mind.
I hate it. I hate quarantine.
- Sweet night. - [laughs]
- All right, I love you.
- I love you. - Good night.
- ♪♪ Can't deal with things ♪♪
♪♪ Taking all my problems, stuff them in a closet ♪♪
♪♪ I can't deal with things ♪♪
- My mom decides to set up a session with Coach B.
'cause she knows that I'm just not feeling it today.
- So how you feeling? - I just want to go lay down.
I'm just not having a good day. - Yeah.
- Tomorrow is my dad's birthday,
and it's always pretty hard for me.
- I mean, I know why, so I understand.
- Hi, ladies. - Hi.
- It's good that we have a session
with Coach B today because I feel like
Kiaya can really use it.
I can't help her with everything,
and sometimes it takes another person
to try to get her to open up.
- So you've been OK? - Mm-hmm.
- I know you mentioned the other night
at the team building exercise
that I think you said your dad's birthday
was coming up? - Yeah, it's tomorrow.
- It's tomorrow. - It is tomorrow.
How are you processing that? How's it going?
- I want to go lay down.
I don't really feel like talking to nobody.
- You don't want to talk about it?
- No.
It's a void that will never get filled,
and talking about it, it doesn't help the fact.
It just reminds me of it.
I just have to accept it.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to accept it.
I want something that I can't have,
so I'm trying to figure out how to get over
that want for something that I can't have
'cause, like, I can talk to him all day,
but I'm looking for a response.
I'm looking for a hug or something,
you know? Stuff that I won't get.
- Mom, what do you think? - I feel helpless.
I never know what to do.
It's like, do I bring him up?
Do I not bring him up?
Because it's like if you're having a good day,
I don't want to bring him up
and now you're having a bad day because now you're sad.
- Nothing will make me sadder than I already am.
It's like I can't get any worse.
She should stop walking on eggshells
'cause it's like I'm already at the lowest, you know?
- Yeah, I get that.
- But I still feel like-- then it starts--
I start to feel guilty.
I'm sorry for not going to the football game with him
the night that he passed away.
He asked me to go to a game with him, and I didn't go.
- You're not giving yourself no compassion.
I'm talking about zero compassion.
You were being a kid, Kiaya.
You weren't sitting at home intentionally trying
to not answer a phone call.
You were a kid. - Yeah.
- You're still a very young lady.
Still working through stuff.
You got to forgive yourself.
- I always get emotional when Kiaya get emotional
when it comes to her dad.
The guilt that Kiaya says she has,
we had--our last conversation was me fussing him out,
and three weeks later, he passed away,
so I get what she means.
[sighs]
God damn it.
- How can we make his birthday
from tomorrow on
something that represents you forgiving yourself,
that represents you knowing it wasn't your fault,
and shifting that energy from guilt
to, "I'm gonna celebrate my daddy?
I'm gonna celebrate my daddy."
And mom, of course, you know,
this is where you can help her.
How do you celebrate him on these days?
- Yeah. - Can you do that?
- Yeah.
- Good job. - Thank you.
- Great job.
I'm so proud of you.
- Thank you. - Give me some love.
I'ma leave you ladies here, OK? - Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
I really miss my dad,
but it's time for me to start to find different ways
to cope and deal with his passing.
[upbeat pop music]
- [whispers] OK, we'll leave that.
♪♪ ♪♪
So Kayla, her mom, and Jaime are left.
- So I open my door, and I find
this cute, little get well soon card
from Cheyenne, and that was super sweet.
Like, Cheyenne's just got such a kind heart.
- Last one's for Jaime. I hope she's feeling OK.
[dramatic music]
- I never got one.
[coughs]
I put in six days of COVID, damn it.
I want my card, [bleep].
[chuckles]
[upbeat music]
[phone chimes]
[phone whooshes]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Jen wrote me back, and sadly,
she isn't able to come to this reunion.
♪♪ ♪♪
I mean, the door is open, and I think
when we're both ready, maybe we can
turn this ship around.
- ♪♪ In the sky ♪♪
♪♪ Can you see me up in the air going through above ♪♪
♪♪ And ZZ as if nothing was there ♪♪
♪♪ I ain't ever been scared ♪♪
♪♪ So we climbing through the levels of it
- Hey y'all. - Yo, what's up?
- Hey. - Hey.
- Let's party.
- What are we having a party for?
- Today is my dad's birthday.
So happy heavenly birthday to him.
And then my mom's birthday is in two days.
- Aww.
- Talking to Coach B made me realize
maybe I should try to change the way
that I remember my dad on his birthday
and turn it into a positive thing.
So we have two cakes,
one for my mom, one for my dad.
- Does your mom know that we're doing this?
- No, she does not know.
I don't know what she thinks I'm doing right now,
but she's, like, in the room on the phone or something.
- I'ma be a good sport, and I'ma get a little hat.
- I'm coming to help.
- Please, Chey, put one over that little bun.
[laughter]
It look like ice cream cone right now.
We got a little rocky road under there.
- All right, all right.
[laughter]
- I'm gonna put it on this corner.
You put it on that one. - It's short.
I got to work smarter, not harder.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I really like seeing Kiaya giving herself this day
to celebrate her dad's life.
It's not easy to do,
and I'm just really proud of her.
- I'm about to go ahead and call my mom
and tell her to come over.
[line trilling] - Hello.
- Hey, Mom, what are you doing? - Nothing.
- We was in, like, a meeting, like, just like the girls.
- OK, that's cool.
- You can come on to the house if you want to.
- All right, OK. - All right.
- All right, bye. - You're a bad liar.
- No!
- We was in, like, uh... - Uh, a meeting...
- With--uh, with the girls. - Uh, just, uh...
- Oh, she's in the front. I see her.
- Uh-oh, here we go again. - Is she coming?
- Gotta hide.
- Is everyone hiding?
- How long are we gonna be dipping?
- That's--no, but my knees don't do that no more.
- I put in a lot of thought in this,
and this took a lot of emotion and a lot of strength from me,
so I hope my mom is really satisfied with the party.
[dramatic music]
[together] Surprise!
- Happy birthday! - Oh!
- Happy birthday. - Happy birthday, Mommy.
- Happy birthday. - Thank you.
Y'all gonna make me cry. - We got you a little banner.
- Oh, don't cry. - We got you a little sash.
- Yep, you got a sash and a hat.
- I see some balloons and some little streamers.
I am so surprised. Like, I couldn't believe it.
- Mom, why are you crying?
- Because it's sweet. Thank you.
- Don't cry.
- You know the grandmas are leaving,
so we got to, you know, celebrate.
- I know. I don't want to leave.
- You guys are our last two standing.
- A couple of us grandmas are leaving the resort soon,
but it's the perfect way to say goodbye.
Everybody is celebrating my birthday,
but it's kind of bittersweet
'cause I don't want to go home, but I'm ready to go home,
but I don't want to go home.
- Kiaya, you gonna do your dad's cake?
- Yeah. - Did you see this?
We're celebrating both you guys.
- The fact that Kiaya is thinking about me
in a time that she's hurting so bad, it was just special.
- It's OK, Mommy.
- Ready. - All right.
- Gotta blow out your candles.
- Blow out the candles.
- Yeah.
[applause]
- I'm about to cry. - I want cake though.
- Aw.
- Hey, what's something that you guys
are gonna take from this experience
that you learned from Coach B? - Going deep.
- I definitely feel like it's OK for me to be more open,
and that's not even me taking it from just Coach B,
but from all of you all.
Seeing everybody be so open and so vulnerable
and not feel, like, ashamed about it,
it helped me open up because I felt like
it was OK for me to be vulnerable too.
So when I get home, that's something
that I'm gonna try to work on.
I'ma try to be more vocal.
- I just appreciate my relationship
with all the moms.
Our bond is so strong.
And I feel like those relationships
are hard to come by.
- You gonna realize once you do that,
get all that off your chest,
how much lighter you feel. - Yeah.
- Yeah.
- You just gonna feel at peace with yourself.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- It feels really good to know
that I'm not alone in some of the things
that I'm dealing with.
Sitting here and being able to talk and celebrate
with everybody really put me out of the funky mood
that I was in.
So it's really nice to have the support.
- Cheers. - Cheers, thank you.
[plucky orchestral music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- [snoring]
♪♪ ♪♪
- This quarantine sucks.
There's nothing to do. I'm bored all alone.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Babe.
- ♪♪ Everyone, they tell me, they tell me lies ♪♪
♪♪ And it doesn't mean it ♪♪
[upbeat pop music]
- It's so nerve-wracking,
like, waiting on the results of the COVID test.
It's like-- - Every day.
- Yeah, it's like--
- I just, like, keep refreshing.
- Please let me be negative. Please let me be negative.
- Yeah.
- Sucks Kayla and Jaime are still sick.
- They're still not feeling well?
- Yeah. - Oh, damn.
- Hi, guys. - Hi.
- What are you guys doing? - Chilling.
- Oh, talking about COVID.
Talking about how half the group is, like, gone.
- I did not think that COVID
was gonna to be the reason why, like, a lot of us
didn't get to do it this year. - Yeah.
- Right. Who is that?
[dramatic music]
- What's up?
- Hey! Hey!
- What's up?
[bleep] hell, bitches. Come here, man.
- Don't touch her.
- Amber has been locked in quarantine,
and she's finally getting out.
I'm a little scared to hug her, but I'm excited to see her.
- Come here, man.
- She said come here. Air hug.
- All right, negative twice.
You can [bleep] hug me, I swear.
- Oh, [bleep] it, I'm going.
- No, don't touch her. Don't touch her!
Oh, he's touching her!
- Oh, I can't lie, I was happy as hell to see her.
I really like Amber. Amber is cool.
- I'm not trying to get locked down.
- I missed you, Amber. I'm glad you're negative.
- Oh my God, I'm just-- I needed her this whole time.
- Bitch. - She looks fantastic.
She's in great spirits,
and she definitely needs to enjoy the rest of this
because she's been going through a lot of [bleep]
- I'll give you a hug.
- It was pretty hard, you know,
being quarantined for so long,
just sitting down and thinking about, like,
me, and my kids, and my future.
- You're back now. - Are you feeling better?
- I am feeling ten times better.
- It's just really refreshing to just see her
out here with everyone, and it's actually starting
to give me some hope for the rest of this trip,
like, maybe everybody else will start
coming out of quarantine shortly,
and we can all finish this as one.
- Guys, I missed everyone so much.
- I'm glad you still got a couple of days left
to mingle with us.
- I know. - Thank God.
- We can go do something fun. - Yes.
- Zach and I thought it would be fun to do ATVs,
do the Raptors up in the mountains.
- Ooh, that's fun.
- ATVing, like, on the first day
that I'm out from COVID?
That's just like perfect.
- We should just meet back here in, like, 30 minutes
and get ready to go. - OK, I'm down.
- I'm excited.
[upbeat hip-hop music]
- ♪♪ Oh, you rooting ♪♪
♪♪ Autopilot, I'm cruising ♪♪
♪♪ Asking questions like cool, when? ♪♪
- I'm psyched. Are you?
♪♪ ♪♪
- I am though. - Whoo!
- I'm ready. - We've arrived!
♪♪ ♪♪
- I'm excited because I can see the Raptors,
and I'm just ready to jump in and hit the throttle.
- ♪♪ I bring back that new thing ♪♪
- OK, you guys ready? - Yeah, let's get it.
- All right, so I planned for us to go at ATVing,
but with a twist.
I brought you guys here to do a scavenger hunt.
We're gonna break off into teams.
We're gonna get a little competitive.
Maci, don't do weird stuff.
[laughter]
This is the idea.
There are four colored totes.
Along this path, if you see a tote, stop.
There's a task inside the bag with a challenge.
- Okay. - Whoever has the better--
- So the fastest time wins.
And we're doing a staggered start.
So teams are Zach and I, Jade and Sean,
against Maci, Kiaya, and Amber.
- Let's go. - We got this.
- All right, are you guys ready?
[together] Yeah!
- I've been here before, grew up riding dirt bikes,
so I'm in my element. I'm ready to knock this out.
- We'll go first. - Nose goes.
- Perfect. - I'll drive first.
- Good luck, guys.
- We're all super competitive,
and we're ready to kick their ass.
- Y'all gonna get your all asses whooped.
- My team is definitely going to win.
- Hell, yeah. - Y'all got to put on helmets.
- What? - Y'all got to put helmets on.
- Why? - I don't know.
- There's no sleeve to go in there?
I'm literally wearing somebody else's sweat
on my [bleep] head.
That [bleep] is crazy.
[dramatic music]
It's like putting on somebody's sock.
- Zack is just--
he doesn't listen to the rules.
- I don't think--
I'm think I'm about to pass on this trip, y'all.
I'm just not feeling it.
I ain't got my brush with me,
so I'm not filming after this scene.
I'm dead serious.
- Thank you, sorry. - This is it for me.
- Watching Zach throw a tantrum,
it's giving very odd, helpless vibes right now.
He's definitely done that before.
- So did you not take into consideration
anything that we just talked about?
- What?
- You could have FaceTimed me
when you were hearing the heartbeat.
- We were talking, and she just did it really quick.
It wasn't an ultrasound. - So what?
- You think I want to walk into every appointment by myself?
- Uh, It seems like it 'cause you didn't want to FaceTime me.
- Go!
[upbeat rock music]
- We're going fast.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I don't need no helmet,
but I like any activities outdoors.
Love ATVs. I'm excited.
And then, come on, you put me
in a scavenger hunt, I'm serving all y'all.
- You ready, Maci? - I'm ready.
- You look cute. - Whoo!
♪♪ ♪♪
- It's like, I'm from Indiana where we went mudding.
We--I grew up on nothing but dirt bike,
four-wheelers, things like that.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Film a 20-second video of a team member
throwing a tantrum.
- Throw a tantrum now!
- I'll do it. - Go.
- Man, what the [bleep] you guys have us out here
doing in these [bleep] helmets and [bleep]!?
- I never hear Sean throw fits,
so, like, it was weird listening to it.
- [bleep] that helmet! It's not cool!
- But I thought it was really funny.
- Yeah, I got it. - OK.
[dramatic music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- That's it?
♪♪ ♪♪
- Film a 20-second video of a team member
throwing a tantrum. - Are you videoing?
- No, she was. - Go.
- Throw a temper tantrum. - Go.
- [screaming] [bleep]!
- Keep going! - [screaming]
- Keep going, keep going, keep going!
Shut your door good. Seat belts on.
- Go, go, go!
- What have we got? Right there.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Say the alphabet backwards with a pacifier in your mouth.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Zach, you do that?
- No [bleep] way.
- Look it up. Look it up.
- They never said we couldn't look it up.
- Yeah.
- Z-Y-X-W-V-U-T-S-R.
What kind of [bleep] DUI [bleep] is this?
E-D-C-B-A. Let's go.
- Yeah!
Y'all think y'all bout to win? Hell no.
- Go, go, go.
- Oh, it's over here.
[screaming] It's big-ass bugs!
- It's all right. Come on, hurry.
- I can't.
[engine roaring]
- All right, I'ma get out.
Z-Y-X-W-Z-U-R.
Oh, [bleep].
- Eat a whole jar of baby food.
Hey, what kind of baby food? - Pear, pear, pear.
You like pear. - Eat it, eat it.
- Hurry, the whole jar. Hit the whole jar.
- Watching Sean chug that baby food...
- Go, go, go.
- He's definitely done that before.
- We got this [bleep].
I think that was less than two minutes.
[engine roaring]
- Oh, my God. - Huh?
- The pacifier.
- Whoo! - Whoo!
- Be careful, be careful!
- Put a diaper on your body and run around
yelling, "I have to potty" six times in a row.
I immediately just grabbed the diaper,
and it's this big.
Like, it's literally, like, the tiniest diaper
for, like, a newborn baby.
So I'm like, we can't even put this on.
What are--
- Eat a whole jar of baby food?
- All right, go.
- I have to potty. I have to potty.
- What?
What is she doing? - I have to potty.
- Two more times. - I have to potty.
- She has to the bathroom.
It was weird.
- I have to potty.
I felt like a jackass
out in the middle of the woods doing this.
I was like, please don't let other people see us.
They're gonna think we're [bleep] insane.
- Everybody in? - Yep.
- Yeah. - Whoo.
- OK, be careful now.
- Whoo!
[engine roaring]
- Ah! - Damn!
- We're in the woods going super fast,
Maci, she's going over, like, bumps and hills and everything.
[laughing] - It's OK.
We're holding on tight.
Bitch, keep going.
Where the [bleep] is the next one?
- Right?
- There's no more little clues on the trees.
There's not really a clear trail.
The [bleep] is it?
- No, for real, where the [bleep] are we?
What the [bleep]?
- I think we can just go off road over there.
- Uh, so I think we're lost.
- We're [bleep] lost.
[dramatic music]
- What the [bleep]? We're gonna lose.
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ We gon' turn it up right now ♪♪
[cheering]
- Be careful, be careful! - Ah! [laughs]
- Slow down, slow down!
I'm scared.
Zach scared the [bleep] out of me.
I literally thought he was gonna [bleep]
wreck us into a tree.
[laughter]
Ah! OK, you can't drive no goddamn more.
- I'm all gas, no brakes.
I'm not-- I don't know what--
I'm not believing in none of that braking.
It's a straight road.
You could hit a little bump. We'll be all right.
We got helmets on.
- Zach, all right, you're done.
- Yeah. - I was trying to slide.
- Good [bleep], Zach. - Yeah, you're done.
That was it.
That was good enough for me.
Let's just say I'm the designated driver
in our house.
- Team photo, only one team member's feet
can touch the ground.
- You know, we in woods, so we looking around.
The first thing that's going through my head is, [bleep],
I'm about have to put Chey on my back,
Sean on this shoulder, and Jade on this shoulder.
Sit over here. Sit over here.
- Oh, yeah, innovative.
- My smarts kicked in.
We got a damn [bleep] ATV behind us.
Everybody's feet off the ground.
- Back, all right, I'm gonna drive.
You're giving me a goddamn panic attack.
[laughter]
- You need to take a video.
- So, y'all, we are lost. [laughs]
We were talking so much [bleep].
- Yeah. - And we're losing.
- OK, but we went off the beaten path and [bleep].
We had fun.
- I have no idea where we are or how we got here.
We all thought we were taking the right turn.
In fact, we were not.
Cheyenne, Zach, Jade, and Sean, if y'all are watching
this [bleep], y'all are lucky y'all win by default.
Just saying.
- Whoo!
- I'm just eating dirt right now.
- Oh, [bleep]. Big bump! - Keep going, keep going.
[girls screaming]
- Which way?
Straight? Is straight good? - Right here.
- Yeah, straight.
[cheering]
- And that's how it's done.
- I say we should just go back that way.
- Yeah, the way that we came.
- So do we go this way?
- Yep.
- I didn't even think about that.
Oh, if I see a [bleep] moose, I'ma lose my [bleep].
They got them big ugly ass things on their head.
And then it's just like a fat ass deer.
- You videoing? - I was hauling ass.
I thought for sure we we're gonna hit our heads.
Maci, Kiaya, Amber, where did you guys go?
- I'm ready to eat.
- Same.
- I'm like, where's everybody at?
Why is it taking them so long 'cause we got done
pretty quick, I felt like, so--
[booing] [all jeering]
- Loser! - Losers.
- We got [bleep] lost.
- Put your pacifier in your mouth.
[laughing]
- We got completely off track.
We were in the [bleep] woods somewhere.
- Honestly, getting lost in the woods was fun.
To be with those girls just, like, freaking out
and everything, I was in my element.
- I am so sad to announce that, unfortunately, you guys lost.
We won. - By default.
Y'all won by default.
- That's fine.
However you wanna make yourselves
feel better about it.
- They won by default because we should have
been able to restart.
We got lost, even though it's not their fault we got lost.
But, oh well, I still won in spirit.
- Thank God.
I wish the kids were here and to see this.
This is so gorgeous.
- How pretty it is out here, yeah.
Can you believe our kids are gonna be 14?
- I don't even--
- Literally, in like a month and a half.
- Leah looks like she's like 16 right now.
- I know.
- I saw Bentley, and I was like, oh, my God.
- I know, they're almost two years away from being our age
when we started. - That is so crazy.
- I know. - When it comes to
me, Maci, and Cate, like, doing this,
we can't believe we're here.
Those people are gonna mean something to me
for the rest of my life.
Do you still talk to Ryan's mom?
Like, does Bentley still go over there?
- He does sometimes.
Not as much as he used to.
But truth be told, it's a lot to do
with just his age, and sports, and all the things.
They still come to his games.
He still will go over there and spend, like,
the weekend at their house.
Yeah, I feel like they've always been the co-parents
in this situation, you know, so--
- Yeah.
- Yeah, definitely.
- Mm-hmm.
Bentley, and Jen, and Larry have
still a close relationship.
They communicate on a regular basis.
And we don't.
The way things are now, it works for me.
I'm not sure if that works for them.
But getting that text from Jen makes me
feel like there is some hope that we
can really be close again.
- I'm still fighting for James. - Right.
- And I'm still fighting for Leah.
Me and Leah finally now have a good relationship.
- I think that's all you can do.
- I put her through that, though.
She's got thick skin.
And she's gonna be a really strong woman.
- I know things with Amber and her daughter, Leah,
are kind of rocky right now.
And the custody situation with James,
it takes a major toll on her.
I am concerned.
- You wanna go? - Yeah, it's getting dark.
- About to be in a scary movie.
[laughs]
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Yes, you have a long tongue.
Oh, wow. Can you make a taco?
- This is my taco. - Let me see.
[laughs]
- Ahh.
- I just wanna talk to Coach B.
I feel like right now, like, I'm going through
so much in my life
that I wanna see if there's something
that I've not been able to kinda grab out of myself
that maybe Coach B. can.
- So how are you, my Amber? How are you?
- [sighs] It's been pretty hard.
Very traumatic things have happened
all within the last few years.
- Right, I know last reunion,
you were focusing on you and Leah's relationship--
how can I be the bigger person? - Mm-hmm.
- I remember that.
- I'm a good mom.
- Aw, who all can relate to being a good mom?
- Amber, come on. - You better stand up.
- Come on.
- I did believe at that time that I was not a good mom
because I knew at that moment, I hadn't been doing everything
that I could with Leah.
And when it comes to now, so much has changed.
- Like, tell me what's changed.
- So last time, I spoke to Gary on the phone,
and I started going over to see Leah.
In the beginning, though, she would come in
and go upstairs, and just pass by me.
Hello!
Hey.
It was so hurtful and so hard.
Gary and Kris said, "Just keep coming over.
You're fine, you're fine."
I started going over every single week a couple of times
a week, and then bringing James over, as well.
And all of a sudden, you know, me and Leah
started to form a relationship.
That's from me.
It's the tree of life, and it's your birthstone.
- Oh, thank you.
- But it sounds like things have evolved,
and you're showing up differently.
And you're using tools, and you're applying the tools.
- Years--back in the day, I thought staying away
was the best thing to do for Leah.
And it actually just completely backfired
a couple of years later.
When it comes to James, my son...
- Mm-hmm.
♪♪ ♪♪
- It's hard because when James was taken away...
a lot of my past was used against me.
It's just completely unfair to have past substance abuse
and past, you know, also, your mental illnesses, like,
used against you literally.
And that's the part that I don't like.
You know, nobody could see the relationship
that me and James had.
It was gorgeous.
- And I love that you talk about from the optics
of people who aren't inside your world, right?
They can't see the relationship that you have
with Leah or James.
They can't see all of the transition.
- It affects it. It affected it.
- But with that, you're talking about nurturing
that relationship, planting new seeds.
Right--so wait, I wanna do an exercise with you...
- Okay. - That has to do
with planting...
seeds for your babies.
And each seed that you plant, you're gonna
to tell me what you're planting
for Leah and for James.
And then we're gonna water. - This is so perfect.
- And we're gonna nurture it. Right?
You're gonna take these home with you,
and it's gonna be your responsibility
as a mama bear to continue to nurture your babies
through these plants.
Sound good? - Sounds amazing.
- So let's do it. - OK.
- Fill up Leah's and James' pot.
- The seeds is like dissecting each emotion
for both of your children.
My kids are growing.
So it was the perfect thing to use seeds and growing.
The first seed that I'm planting is for the love
that Leah did not receive from me a long time ago,
because I thought she would be better off without me
because I felt that I would just hurt her future.
[crying]
And I want this to grow so she will know
that I never gave up on her.
I did without knowing, and I'm sorry.
- Yeah, there you go.
- There is nothing I will ever be able to do
to fix any of that stuff,
but I just have to keep going.
This is our future that we both will continue
to always be there for each other
and work on everything we need.
Never give up.
♪♪ ♪♪
James.
- Take a deep breath in. You got it.
- [exhales]
I'm sorry, I have a lot of trauma. [crying]
- OK, Amber, let it come out. You're good.
- [sobbing]
I didn't fail you. I didn't fail you.
I didn't fail you, I promise.
I swear to God, baby.
And I fought for you for three [bleep] years.
I never gave up I never gave up.
And I'm still not giving up.
- God, baby, I never gave up. I never gave up,
and I'm still not giving up.
I'm working hard just to see you, baby.
I'm never giving up.
[crying]
James, this is for what my past did to us.
But we're gonna watch it grow into something positive.
It was shocking to almost every single person that I knew
when James was just taken away.
I'm never gonna stop fighting for what I believe in
and what's going to happen.
I just have to keep doing what I need to do and stay on track
no matter what decisions are made
from other people outside.
You know, paper is paper, but blood is blood.
- Give me your hands.
I don't care if there's dirt on there.
- I know you don't. - I don't care.
- I know you don't.
- I'm so proud of you.
- Thank you so much for this.
This was perfect.
- Because your kids are perfect.
But I want you to continue to do the work.
Show up for yourself first
so that you can show up for your babies.
They get you at the level of healthiness you give yourself.
Can you do that?
- I promise.
[uplifting music]
I know that when I leave here, I'm gonna
just keep growing those seeds for me,
and my kids, and my future.
♪♪ ♪♪
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
[snoring]
- You look so beautiful packing that bag there, girl.
You gonna come and help me pack?
This your crap.
- I guess I'll help.
My mom is leaving today.
She's gotta go back to work.
So it's just been really nice having this one-on-one time
with her, and be able to spend time
with her away from my sisters and away from a more--
I really just had her to myself for the past couple of weeks.
I wish she could stay the whole entire time.
I'm gonna miss you, but I'll be home
in three days after you get there.
- Yeah. - But I miss you, too.
- I'm gonna miss you, too.
This trip has been life-changing for us,
and it's been exciting,
and it's been up and down.
And I'm ready to take this home and put into work everything
that we've done here.
This trip has been amazing for us.
- How are you feeling?
- I feel good.
I accomplished what I came for.
I'm not sure how you feel.
But I was happy to speak to the mothers
and get to kind of experience what you experienced.
I'm really glad that I got to have this time with Cheyenne.
This has really, really brought us closer.
I'm glad that she's able to share some of the things
that I may not know that bother her with our relationship.
So I'm really happy to have this time to bond with Chey.
- I appreciate our relationship, mom.
And I appreciate the relationship that you've built
with Zach, and the effort that you put into us,
and the support that you give us.
I'm happy that I was able to bring my mom.
I want her to be able to let go of some things that
may have happened in the past.
I want her to be the best version of herself.
And hopefully in this trip, she sees that.
- Bye, room. [kisses]
Oh, this is bittersweet.
[upbeat rock music]
- ♪♪ I just wanna fall apart ♪♪
- Hello? - Hey, Gary.
This is Maci. - Hey, how are you?
- Good, how are you?
- Amber was dealing with a lot before she came out here.
And then COVID hit her.
And it's kind of been a disaster for her so far.
So I just really wanna do something nice for her.
Amber said at the last reunion you know, that she wanted
to keep working on her relationship with Leah
and spend more time with her.
So I was wondering if there's any chance that you think
that maybe you and Leah could come out here for a day
or so just to visit with Amber.
- Um--
- I'm really hoping Gary can pull this off,
but I don't know if it's gonna happen.
- Her and Leah have gotten closer.
But, you know, it's still got some work to do.
Leah's still working on being comfortable.
I don't know if I can.
- Next time, on the season finale
of "Teen Mom: Family Reunion."
[all cheering]
- Surprise, I'm back.
- Oh! - Oh!
They just spit on us.
- That was a really full-face spit.
- Chey often mirrors a mom towards you.
Chey, can you commit to falling back and letting
your boy become a man?
Or do you wanna marry a boy?
- Watching April sit there, just react,
and she doesn't care who else is around and getting affected.
- Oh, my gosh, calm the [bleep] down.