- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪
- Previously, on "Teen Mom: The Next Chapter"...
- Today, you not only unite your separate lives,
but you are bringing into this new chapter,
the love of your daughter, Kloie.
You may kiss your gorgeous bride.
[cheers and applause]
- Ryder is getting older, and she is figuring out
more about her family dynamic. - Guess what.
And I get to go to Atlanta with dad for his show.
- You and your dad just be making all these plans.
- You and Cheyenne have had kind of a rocky road at times.
Now things are good. Tell people how you got there.
- We always put Ryder first.
- The biggest thing in coparenting is communication.
- Are you ready for your graduation?
- Yeah.
- Ryan would like to be here to go to it,
but I know he's proud of you.
- What's, like, the latest update with Ryan?
- Right now, he's in a halfway house.
- OK.
- I want to experience living alone
with just the girls.
- You're not moving those girls away from me.
No way. They're half mine.
- Sorry, Mom.
It's time for me to do my own thing.
- Dad wants to go into detox.
- Where, Florida?
- No, he's already here.
- I made the promise that, if he went into detox,
that I would meet him there.
Hi. - I'm ready.
[soft dramatic music]
Maybe this is the real deal.
[upbeat music]
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- ♪♪ Let's move ♪♪
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♪♪ Let's move ♪♪
- I didn't know y'all liked white rice.
I found the forks.
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Here, Benny.
Hi, ladies.
OK, you guys all need to buckle up
because Benny's about to take his learner's permit test.
Can you believe that I have a kid old enough to drive?
I just have to make sure
you don't ask anyone questions, OK?
As the proctor, I have to tell you,
you can't continue. - You would do that?
- Yes, I would, son.
I'm not breaking the law for you!
- Nobody's gonna know.
[quirky music]
- Look around, Son.
Open your pretty eyes and look around.
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Oh, my God. - What?
- I failed. Take it tomorrow?
- If you want to. - Well, yeah.
- ♪♪ I can make it loud with the bass clap, treble ♪♪
♪♪ Turn it up now, right now, no trouble ♪♪
♪♪ I'm gonna do it ♪♪
- Itching. - Itching? Yeah.
- You're gonna go from "Dragon Ball Z"
to a Smurf here shortly.
So, how did Bentley do on his driver's permit test?
- He failed it.
- Failed it? - Mm-hmm.
- I think he's gonna be fine driving.
Yeah, but every once in a while,
the common sense, just, phew! And I'm like, "Oh, boy."
- Yeah. - And that's what scares me.
- Mm-hmm. God, I hope and pray
that our parenting has been good.
- Yeah.
Now, I don't even want to think about when you start driving.
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- Pretty sweet.
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It looks cool. - Yeah, that's how I want it.
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- Hey, guys.
I just got to my sister's house.
She asked me to come over to talk about the next steps
for my dad's recovery,
and I know firsthand how that can be,
so I want to be of support to him.
He's just got to put the work in himself too.
- So, as you know, dad's in detox.
And then, once he gets through the detox,
he's gonna have to go to... - A long-term.
- A long-term rehab facility. - Mm-hmm.
- And everywhere I've called about
or I've tried to get him into, they either want so much money,
which neither one of us can do...
- Mm-hmm.
- Or his insurance are not accepted.
So it's, like, everywhere you go,
there's, like, a-- it's a roadblock.
It's just, I think it's more, like, frustrating,
because it's like, when somebody does want the help,
it's hard for them to get the help.
- Yeah, it's bull[bleep].
I know we'll do whatever it takes
to make sure he gets into a long-term facility after detox.
He deserves that much. Like, he's putting the work in.
He's putting the effort in. I respect that.
And I think that we can start there.
- I don't want the universe to keep working against him.
It needs to work for him.
- I think, sometimes, the universe
works against us to build us and make us better.
- That's very true.
- I think that, if I hadn't been through half of what
I've been through in my life, I would not be the woman
and mother that I am today, and able to overcome
the obstacles I'm even being faced with now.
I know of some places.
You know of some places.
- Yeah. - We'll figure it out.
We'll find him a place, wherever that might be.
I will guide him along the way.
I will be his support system.
- ♪♪ Bring it to me closer ♪♪
♪♪ I saw you from afar ♪♪
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[phone rings] - Hello?
- Hey, what's going on, Chey?
- Nothing, I'm just sitting at home.
- I need to stop by and ask you something.
- So you're saying you want to talk in-person about something?
- Yeah, I'd just rather talk without Ry being there.
You know how she's all ears.
It's kind of, like, an adult conversation.
So I was thinking I could stop by quick
before I pick her up for school,
and we could just talk. - OK, that's fine.
- Give me about 20 minutes, and I'll be over.
- OK, I'll see you soon.
- ♪♪ Only if we're having fun ♪♪
[doorbell rings]
♪♪ We could have a little fun ♪♪
- Hey! - What's up?
You guys are killing it with the--
- The Christmas décor? - The Davis family, yeah.
- Don't be a hater! - I love it.
No, I'm not. It works.
- Ace is asleep, but Zach's golfing with my dad.
- Oh.
- What's up?
- I wanted to come over and talk to you about
me having Ryder for Christmas this year.
We'll fly to Michigan.
So, basically, I need her for, like, ten days.
- So her whole Christmas break? - Yeah.
I'ma be real with you, the trip's already booked.
- When did you book? Because Christmas is now.
I mean, we're in December, so...
- Yeah, I booked a couple months ago.
- And you didn't think maybe to tell me then?
- You know, I probably should have asked you first.
Well, I think the biggest thing is that, usually,
you've had her for Christmas. - No, no, no.
- Yeah, you've had her for Christmas.
- We share! We split.
You'll get her, like, Christmas Eve.
I'll have her Christmas morning.
You come get her Christmas night or something.
- But my family doesn't live in LA, so...
- That's not a me problem. - Eventually, I'm gonna want--
no, but you want what's best for Ry.
So, obviously, you want her to see my family too.
Your family gets to see Ryder every Christmas.
You go to my family that lives in Michigan.
It's like, this is the first time
where I could get everyone together,
bring Ryder, celebrate it all as a family,
and I just thought that, you know, it would be nice.
- And does Ryder know about this?
- Uh, maybe.
- OK, you're just digging a bigger hole.
- I mean, but I got everything set up.
Like, if you could just do me this one favor,
you could have her for Christmas next year.
- What if I say no? - Mm.
You wouldn't have liked it if I handled it this way.
I don't like how you're handling it.
Ryder might have to sit this one out.
- You win. It's your call.
- Great. Thank you. - Your call.
- It is my call. - You win.
I handled it wrong.
- So just go continue being in the wrong somewhere else.
- Peace, thank you. - Please get out of my house.
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[upbeat music]
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- Hey, ladies. Mrs. Austin here.
Me and Sean just got back from Turks and Caicos.
We had an amazing honeymoon.
We are settling into married life.
I absolutely love being married.
But we got Kloie into a new school.
It's a public school,
and we've been dealing with some issues
that we haven't dealt with at her private preschool.
So we've been trying to figure out
just where to go from here.
What's going on?
- With Kloie, we're picking up from school,
and, you know, she's crying, saying she doesn't like school.
She's not having a good time.
There was some issues with, like, the kids
kind of picking on her.
We tried to talk to, you know, the teacher.
We talked to the counselor.
We couldn't get answers, so I'm like,
"I can't continue to send my kid to school
for her to be miserable." And we don't have a game plan.
So me and Sean thought it'd be a good idea
to pull her out and just do homeschooling.
- So I'm gonna roll this,
and whatever number it lands on,
you got to make that many, OK?
Ooh, 13.
Now you got to make one with 13.
- Oh, my God.
- Well, that's why mom and dad are right here.
- So dramatic. - Look, two.
Now get another one. Three, four.
Put it here, put it here. - Put it together.
- Come on, dude.
I'm trying-- you asked me to help you.
And you're-- - Just gonna build a one.
- Well, are you counting to 13?
How many are there?
- Count those blocks. - Use your finger.
- Six. - Yep, there are six.
- OK, so now, how many more do you need?
- Six more?
- Almost, you need seven more.
So put seven more.
- And then she can use these as, like,
counting reference or something.
- OK, so we're not doing what I was doing?
- No, because I'm like, this is just
gonna be easier for her visually.
- This is pretty easy if she would have
got to 13 real quick.
- She just seemed like she was more interested in this.
- Oh, OK.
- Here, do you want to do this one?
You can glue this one.
- Look, these are the words that you got to glue.
- Yeah, I got it.
- I can help! - I know.
I'm just saying-- - I'll just go.
- We don't need two people barking at her.
- All right, I'll just go in the other room then.
- OK, perfect.
I just feel like it's overwhelming for her.
- Well, it's not, if you wouldn't--
if you would just let me talk
instead of cutting me off and saying, "You got it."
- Come here, Kloie.
- That's the most annoying [bleep] part.
- Yeah, but I'm saying, she's six years old.
Her attention span--
- Right, but it doesn't matter who's talking to her.
You got to be under control of everything.
- ♪♪ I am glad ♪♪
♪♪ On you, anticipation for you ♪♪
♪♪ But all I see is just a snapshot ♪♪
- So, this past year, I bought a new house.
We are loving it,
but we are definitely farther from my mom and sister
than we are used to.
Throughout my whole entire life,
it was just me, my mom, and my sister.
We were always together.
And my mom, she's been our rock.
But over the years, we started learning
that our mom has lied to us about some pretty big things.
She kept a really big secret from my sister.
- I'm scared she's gonna tell me
that's not my biological father.
Let's be real here.
- You can't be mad at me, Brittany!
You can't!
- And when I wanted to reach out to my dad,
I found out my mom had already been in contact with him
and never told us.
- Why didn't you tell us about the letter?
I feel like that's something that...
- I don't know. I just forgot.
- You could have told us. - You didn't forget.
You just [bleep] lied.
- I will never apologize for protecting you girls, never.
- You're not protecting nobody. You're hurting people.
You're making it about you. - Shut up!
- I love my mom, but all these lies
have definitely affected the way we look at her.
And lately, she has been acting strange,
so I need all the support I can get at the moment,
and luckily, I have good friends who help.
- 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. - All right.
See, that's how I know how to do math.
I need fingers.
I'm gonna go talk to your mom,
and then you show me how to do the rest of the homework.
- OK. - OK?
- Hola, mommy.
- I always said I wanted to help you put your laundry away.
- Yeah, well, where the [bleep] is it gonna go?
This is laundry day.
So, honestly, like, there's so much that's been,
like, happening with my mom.
- Did she say something? Is it her behavior?
- Her behavior.
She's been just, like, acting out.
Like, she'll call us, cursing us out, crying.
Like, a lot of weird, different things is going on.
Did I tell you how she almost fought Brittany
at a restaurant? - No.
- She threw water at Britt-- - Why?
- There was just a disagreement.
My mom--
- Wow, what did Brittany do?
- Nothing, because the girls were there.
- Oh, [bleep].
- And my sister is, like, fed up with her.
My sister has her blocked.
My sister wants no contact, no nothing.
- I was gonna say that.
Knowing Brittany, she's probably like,
"You're cut off."
- And she is getting married this year.
We should be focusing on that.
- Have you guys spoken to your mom to see,
like, what's actually happening with her?
Because now you guys are not at the house.
So, before, she was occupied with you
and Brittany and the girls,
and now she has all this free time in the world,
and now she can't keep everything bottled up anymore.
- Something has to change
because I'm not gonna allow you to do these things
in front of my kids. - Yeah.
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- Hello? - Hola, hola.
Do you think you can come over?
I would like to talk to mom, all three of us, together.
- I agree. I do want to talk.
- All right, I'm gonna text mom.
- OK, I'll be there in a little while.
- All right, bye. - All right, bye.
[tense music]
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- There's so much [bleep].
They have no idea.
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ All out of money, and you're running behind ♪♪
♪♪ Oh, oh, daddy took your ride ♪♪
♪♪ Everything sucks, and it's all bad news ♪♪
♪♪ But don't worry, I got you ♪♪
- What are you doing?
Are you studying to get your learner's permit?
- Yeah.
- What do you do at a roundabout?
- Yield.
It's, like, a rolling stop.
- Rolling stop, that's a good term, OK.
When else would you have to yield?
- Getting on the highway. - Yeah, good job.
- ♪♪ Hey, nothing's gonna stop me ♪♪
♪♪ Now 'cause I'm feeling good ♪♪
♪♪ Oh, oh, oh, I'm feeling good ♪♪
- Do you ever come in here, like,
fully prepared to do something, and then you see it
and you're like, "Oh, no."
I can't believe Benny failed.
I think he thought it was gonna be easy.
- We need to set up some rules. - Hm.
Well, you can drive only when accompanied
by a licensed driver over the age of 21,
who has to be riding in the front seat.
- He don't need to be driving anybody else's car
that's not a family member, to be honest.
- That's facts.
So, just kind of, like, only comfortable with Bentley
driving with, like, me or you or my parents, your parents,
or Jen and Larry.
But I think there's a lot of things that have gone on
with Ryan in the last year.
About three months ago,
Ryan was released from his halfway house
and moved into Jen and Larry's.
Shortly after he was released,
he was pulled over for speeding.
Because of his DUI earlier this year,
Ryan will have a restricted license
for a year.
However, he's sober and is doing well.
- I think Ryan's doing good in his recovery.
- But like, I don't know.
I feel like there's still some proving
he has to do before we'll let Bentley
drive a vehicle if Ryan is the licensed adult
in the car with him.
After Bentley gets a little practice
under his belt, and I think that's
just a conversation we have
with Bentley and Ryan, just to make sure
we're all on the same page of what the rules are
and stuff like that. What do you think?
How do you feel about it? - I agree.
Yeah, I think some more proving, you know?
- At the end of the day, like, it's--
the main goal is what it's always been,
which is, like, to make this once boy, now young man,
grow into a healthy, self-sufficient,
responsible adult.
The way things are going,
we can all be a part of that process.
- Yeah.
- But we have to be on the same page.
- Right.
- How did we get here? [laughs]
I want off this roller coaster.
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ Set up the attention ♪♪
♪♪ We 'bout ready for action ♪♪
- Cory came over and basically dropped a bomb,
that he bought Ryder a ticket to go to Michigan
for Christmas break. - Did he ask you?
- Well, he told me he bought the ticket.
He's planned the trip and talked to Ryder about it,
and now this is him asking me.
- That means she's not gonna be with us on Christmas, at all?
- Well, that is the conversation.
I get that he wants to experience Christmas
with his kids and his family.
It's the way you went about doing it that,
I can't co-parent like that.
Like, we've never co-parented like that.
So why are you all of a sudden doing it?
- But, like, you have to put your feelings aside,
and, you know, we kind of live by the motto,
put the kids first. You got to put the kids first.
It sucks. It sucks.
I'm mad [bleep]. - This one's tough.
I'm sorry.
I'm struggling 'cause, you know, that's my girl.
But Cory is a great dad,
and I feel he bends for you, as well.
He'll say, "Why, when?" But he pays for those parties.
He helps you pay for those birthday parties.
He doesn't fuss.
I'm just saying, you know,
Cory basically does what you ask.
Does he not?
- I'm not saying that he's a bad guy.
- I know, I know.
- I'm not saying he's a bad dad.
- Cory is a good dad.
- It's just the way he went about it.
- I know, I know.
- I'm not saying anything negative about him.
I'm just saying, "[bleep] him."
- I know you don't want to hear it,
but this is part of co-parenting,
is making the sacrifice.
So what are we leaning towards? We're leaning towards--
- I'm not leaning towards anything.
I think I'm just at a point of, like,
I'm just gonna ask Ryder what she wants to do.
[soft dramatic music]
- ♪♪ I wish you were braver ♪♪
♪♪ I can't stay here anymore ♪♪
- Santa, so, you have to put your name,
your age, if you've been nice,
naughty, or a little bit of both.
Ace, have you been nice, naughty, or both?
- Both. - We know.
- Yeah, that sounds about right.
- Ryder, have you been nice, naughty, or both?
- Both. - I love the honesty!
- At least they're honest! - I love it.
Santa is gonna love the honesty too.
You're moving. - [laughs]
- Ry? - Yeah.
- I want to talk about Christmas with you.
- You do? - I do.
I know your dad told you about going on a trip.
- I think it sounds cool and exciting.
- You think it sounds cool and exciting?
- Yeah.
- Do you understand that, if you go on the trip,
you're not gonna spend Christmas here,
or your break here?
You're gonna be with your dad and his family.
- Like, this is the country. - OK.
- I fly all the way to the other side?
- Yeah. - What?
So this is you, and this is me.
- I'm gonna be on the other side.
You can't call me, like, if you're at your dad's house
and say, "I want to come home," and I come over and get you.
Are you OK with that? - Yes.
- OK.
We're both really good parents.
He is a really good dad. He loves Ry.
He loves all his girls.
So I have to respect that,
and I have to allow him to create memories
with Ryder and his family that are just for them.
And because of that, I'm trying not to be selfish
in my own feelings, and it's hard.
It's hard for me to hide them.
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[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Homeschooling is not easy, not for the faint of heart.
Big round of applause for all the teachers out there.
This has been so tough.
But I need some adult time, some me time, some tea time.
So I'm gonna go out tonight
and have some dinner with my friend Karem
and my friend Chelsea.
- Hi! - Hey.
- This is my friend, Karem. - Nice to meet you.
I'm Chelsea. - Hi.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Me and Karem used to be friends
when we were, like, I don't even know how old
it was, like, 14? - Don't say the ages.
- And then, Chelsea, I haven't seen you since the wedding.
- Yeah. - It was fun.
Did you have fun? - I had a great time.
- I just talked to Amber.
She said that she had a great time.
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- But I think she has a new boyfriend now.
- I don't-- you know, the details are a little fuzzy,
but I had a great time.
- Love was in the air.
- So how is it being married?
- I think it just feels mad professional,
when I'm like, "My husband,"
instead of being like, "My boyfriend!"
So pray for me.
You know, I took Kloie out of school.
I've been homeschooling her because Kloie
was kind of getting picked on. She'd come home.
She would cry and say she didn't want
to go to school, which was weird
because she loved preschool.
So, right now, I'm just looking into gonna a private school,
like, not doing homeschooling forever.
- Are you the only one homeschooling her,
or does Sean help? - We both do it.
But Sean's obviously home with her more.
So he does it.
But I know it's got to be hard, staying at home.
I feel like that job is harder than what I do.
I couldn't stay at home.
- I tried to home-school my daughter
for, like, two weeks. I don't have it in me.
- Really quick, to mom's night out.
Cheers, guys.
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- Nope, still don't like it.
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- I mean, the home-school is not for the weak-hearted.
- Yeah.
- Sometimes, I'm a little quick to get upset,
but being around her all day long,
every minute of the day, is not easy to do.
I feel like she needs her own time.
I need my own time.
And you need your own time, too, so...
- Yeah, going back to school, I think
she'll be a lot happier because when
she was at the private preschool,
she was really happy. - Yeah.
- I think once Kloie starts back in private school,
it'll be way better for me and Sean's relationship.
I think this whole experience
just made me hypervigilant
on what I'm looking for in a school.
I think a lot of this is just, like, a learning curve
and a learning experience on how
we make choices for our kid.
And it'll be such a huge relief when
we get her into a school that, you know, fits her,
and she's happy.
- ♪♪ We were formed in the fire ♪♪
♪♪ Gasoline to the fire ♪♪
- Hey, y'all, Bentley spent some more time
studying for his permit test,
so he took it again.
- Passed.
- He got his learner's permit!
Terrifying.
How do you feel? - Relieved.
- Are you ready? - Yes.
- I'm not!
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ When we rise like a phoenix ♪♪
♪♪ Back from the ashes ♪♪
♪♪ Nothing's gonna keep us down, down, down, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- Bentley, did you get your learner's permit?
- Mm-hmm. - You pass your test?
- Yeah. - Boom.
- That thing that's up here in the windshield,
it's called a rear view mirror.
And that is used when people are behind you
and they want by.
You put that thing that's called a blinker on,
and you move over and let the fast guy go on by.
- Ryan, you got any rules? - Just be careful.
- I guess you could say that poetic justice is being served
right now with Ryan having a restricted license,
while Bentley is getting a restricted license.
I mean, at least Bentley's got a perfect example
of what not to do.
- ♪♪ We'll be all right ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- After doing some research, I found a long-term
rehab program for my dad.
So, today, I'm going to pick him up from detox,
and I'm gonna take him there.
I think that it will be good for us
to have that time alone and kind of
try to get to know each other.
All right, you ready?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Whoo!
- ♪♪ I don't give a ♪♪
♪♪ I don't care what the world thinks ♪♪
- How are you? Are you just feeling anxious?
I feel like you're-- - How am I feeling?
- Yeah, I feel like you're a little fidgety over there.
- I am, a little bit.
I mean, I--
I don't know what to expect. - Mm-hmm.
- I just hope these people are as good as the last ones.
- When I went into the rehab facility in Arizona,
I was scared. - You was?
- Yes. - So how are you feeling?
- I am so-- a little tired.
And I've been sick to my stomach.
I'm gonna need help with the girls
while I go and do his therapy, like, like, I guess,
at a facility or something.
So you guys are gonna go to your daddy's tomorrow,
and Mommy's gonna go leave
to go to therapy for a little while.
Listen, so I'm just gonna leave for a few weeks, OK?
And Mommy's gonna talk to you every day.
I think, more than anything,
I didn't want to have to leave my kids.
But I know that leaving my kids was--
for 30 days was the best thing
that I could do for them at that time.
They were my life.
I was never a bad mom.
I just got hooked on medications
that were prescribed to me.
And then I felt like it was sink or swim,
but I kept sinking.
- Yeah, well, I felt so bad doing them with you myself.
It still bugs me.
I've given you a stick of dynamite.
Be careful of this. It's lit. But--
- It's OK.
- Hey, you got to be careful with a stick of dynamite.
- If anything, I held a bigger grudge because
you just vanished when I was young.
And I think there was a lot of responsibility
put on me as the oldest.
And, yes, I looked like you,
and I acted a little bit like you.
And I-- Mom was angry.
There's always a mountain to climb.
You just got to keep climbing.
And then, when you think that there's
not gonna be another mountain,
let me just tell you what.
There will be another mother[bleep] mountain
that you got to climb.
And you just got to keep going.
You got to keep going. - Yep.
- Now the ball is in your court.
- Yep.
You know, I've not only got the position
of getting my life back in order,
but being able to be in my grandkids' life.
You lose so much of your life on that stuff that you don't--
you don't even know. You don't even realize.
- If you stick to this and you follow through--
- If, what you mean, if?
- When you follow through with this
and you keep up with your recovery,
that's really where your starting over
will come into play.
And I think a lot of times that you might have missed out
on with us, you'll be able to regain that
and find healing in building a relationship
with your grandchildren.
It's your legacy.
- You know, that's a big part of my recovery.
- Yes.
- Because if I even go back, I lose all that.
- Yeah. - Look what I'm losing.
[somber pop music]
- ♪♪ Everything's changed ♪♪
♪♪ Now, you're on a plane, leaving ♪♪
- Uh-oh, there it is.
- ♪♪ All you know for ♪♪
- It's pretty!
- It don't look too old, does it?
- No, it looks nice.
It looks homey.
All right, you ready?
- I got to strip search, get in the shower.
- You got this.
There's a lot of mixed emotions.
And it's scary because here I am,
getting emotionally invested.
But I am beyond proud of my dad
for taking the step to go to rehab.
It's not an easy step to make,
especially knowing what you're gonna go through
and staying committed. He's about to go in.
I'm proud of this young man, this young mountain man.
Let's go. You ready?
You got any last words? - Huh?
- You got any last words to say?
Or, well-- - No, let's get it done.
- Let's get it. - Get her done.
- OK, let's get her done.
- ♪♪ It feels good to be me ♪♪
♪♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na ♪♪
♪♪ It feels good to be free ♪♪
- Hey, y'all.
OK, I really need y'all to pray for me
because I'm about to take Bentley
on his first practice drive.
I'm anxious to see how this goes.
I'm definitely not gonna be buying a 15-year-old
a car anytime soon.
So, for now, he'll just use mine and Taylor's cars.
Bless us.
- ♪♪ It feels good to be free ♪♪
♪♪ Da, da, da, da, da, da ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah ♪♪
♪♪ It feels good to be me ♪♪
- For now, obviously you can't drive with anybody
but me and Taylor.
If you're at your mee-mee and papaw's and want to,
and they're OK with it, I don't see why not,
but I want you to get some practice under your belt
before you drive with Ryan.
- I'm backing up.
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- I got a fun little test for you.
Just try and parallel park.
♪♪ ♪♪
We have cones. - Oh.
- [laughs]
[soft dramatic music]
So we have to pretend like there's cars.
- Now, all the way left, and go slow, slow.
You're hitting the cones.
The cones are the car.
[upbeat music]
OK, put it in park. Let's go look and see.
♪♪ ♪♪
Bentley is learning to drive.
Are you on the concrete?
- I did perfect.
- I wouldn't say perfect.
But it's not terrible.
I mean, you really have to have faith and trust
that you've done a good job as a parent.
But they have to learn to trust themselves and--
and make decisions on their own.
But it's absolutely terrifying.
♪♪ ♪♪
[soft dramatic music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Mom says she's on her way.
- How are you feeling? - I'm feeling OK.
How are you feeling? - I don't know.
- Part of me wants to believe
it's gonna be the best conversation we've ever
had throughout our whole life,
but then another part of me is like, "Hmm,
we're not gonna get anywhere." We'll figure it out.
- I just hope she respects the fact that the kids are here,
and she doesn't act out.
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ Oh, you never saw it coming ♪♪
♪♪ Break you with a bang so easily ♪♪
♪♪ Oh, you never saw it coming ♪♪
- Whoever guesses it right, whoever guesses right--
Yeah. - Sushi.
- Dumplings! - Hey, you're so smart.
Get out of here. - For real.
- A cat.
A pig, a pig, a roasted pig! - Yes!
- Hi, guys.
- Hey. - Hey, Mom.
- What's happening? - What are you doing?
- Hey, Brittany. - Hey.
- All right, I want you guys to go
play a video game with Steven.
- Go play with your uncle, please.
- How are you, mom?
- I feel like I got hit by a truck.
[bleep] everything.
Menopause, my anxiety is through the roof.
Just everything hit me at once.
- Is it 'cause you're alone?
When we all lived with you, it was a great distraction.
And now, you don't have that distraction anymore.
You start to get in your thoughts,
and I don't think they're pretty thoughts.
- No.
- And now, you're just going downhill.
- I am, really, really fast.
I'm so cold, my back.
You have traumas.
You have traumas, right? We all have them.
- Mm-hmm.
- But there are some traumas
that you just don't come back from.
The toxicity that I grew up around,
and I don't only mean, like, regular dysfunction,
I mean addiction.
Shooting heroin into my father's arm
was the least of my worries.
- So how do you feel if you can't come back
from some traumas,
this stuff that you've done to us?
You treat me like [bleep]. You talk to me like [bleep].
You always cross the [bleep] boundary.
And what if we can't come back from that
and we just can't be around you?
- And that's the [bleep] truck that's hitting me right now.
The fear, the anxiety for what I've done to you guys,
what I've put you guys through, in particular you,
those are the things that I have to deal with.
- At the end of the day, your mental health
is doing too much to us, and especially to me,
and I cannot take it no more. - I agree.
- So then get the mental help. - You're getting married.
I want us to focus on that.
- You might not be there if you act like this.
- I can't even believe you're bringing that up right now.
- Because it's the truth. - That is such a low blow.
- It's not a low blow. - I'm gonna go.
No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not doing this.
I'm not doing this, no. - See what I mean?
The wedding?
That is the ultimate, the ultimate.
- You're not taking accountability for nothing.
Like, literally, what the [bleep]
is this conversation? It does not make sense.
[tense music]
- ♪♪ That's our style ♪♪
♪♪ That's our style ♪♪
[upbeat music]
♪♪ Look how we grow ♪♪
♪♪ We start the fire, we start the show ♪♪
- Oh, that's how.
That's how it's going around here now.
Ace, I'm gonna have to talk to you later too.
- I just want to say, it was never a problem for her
to go and be with you or your family.
My issue was just the way that you went about it.
I feel like the reason that we co-parent so well,
and have, and I want to continue to do
is the way that we communicate.
- You know, I could have went about it differently, for sure.
I apologize for putting that all on you at once, right?
That's not fair for you.
- Zach told me earlier that I have to just think
about what we always preach, and that that's
that the kids come first,
and that's the only way that this can work.
So I talked to Ryder about it,
and I asked Ry what she wanted to do.
- Mm-hmm.
- She definitely is excited about going,
and I'm not gonna take that away from her.
- Good!
So the answer is yes!
- But I don't want that to become a trend,
especially for, like, holidays,
because Christmas is a big deal...
- Right.
- And I want her too.
I think, moving forward, ideally,
I don't want to start a trend of, like,
you have her this Christmas and I have her next Christmas,
especially if we're both home
and we're ten minutes away from each other.
There's no reason to me why Ryder
can't experience both of her parents
on Christmas Day.
The conversation comes into place if one of us
want to travel that year.
I just think the times where that happens,
a conversation is held prior to a conversation with her,
and prior to a ticket being purchased.
- Yes, ma'am.
I'll come by and pick her up and grab all her stuff
and, yeah, we'll be on our way. - OK.
[somber music]
♪♪ ♪♪
The Grinch is here.
The Grinch is here!
I'm sorry.
You made me feel so bad.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Actually, I'm gonna cry.
Ry, I'm gonna miss you, OK? - OK.
- You're gonna have the best Christmas ever, OK?
Just remember to call me.
Co-parenting comes with sacrifice.
- You're OK.
I'm proud of you. I am.
- It's weird because I have two kids,
so I have to suck it up and get it together
because I still have to make it a good Christmas for my son.
But at the end of the day, we're gonna miss her.
I'm gonna miss her.
♪♪ ♪♪
[soft dramatic music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- [bleep] wedding.
I can't believe she just said that.
- You knew she was gonna act a fool
the moment you brought that up.
♪♪ ♪♪
- She's doing too much. I'm over her.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Mm-mm, I'm tired of [bleep] living this life.
♪♪ ♪♪
- What is that?
♪♪ ♪♪
What is that? What is that?
What's in there?
- The medication I paid for, Briana.
Help yourself.
It's a narcotic. It's methadone!
- You were on drugs?
[somber music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ Do you even care? ♪♪
♪♪ Did you ever love me? ♪♪
♪♪ Are you even there, love? ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ Where do we go from here? ♪♪
♪♪ Never knew we could fall this far ♪♪
♪♪ I can feel it fall apart ♪♪
♪♪ So where do we go? ♪♪
♪♪ Where do we go from here? ♪♪
♪♪ I can feel it fall apart ♪♪
♪♪ So where do we go? ♪♪
♪♪ Where do we go from here? ♪♪
♪♪ Where do we go? ♪♪
♪♪ Where do we go from here? ♪♪
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- Can I take swimming lessons?
- My only concern is her thinking
she's Wonder Woman overnight. - I am a divorced woman.
- Tubal reversal to get pregnant
is around 15% to 20% success rate.
- Are you excited to go to grandma's?
- She's got to be able to earn trust back somehow.
- The other day, he experienced
my first manic episode.
This is something I don't want to mess up.
- I don't want you around the kids.
- [bleep] you and your sister.