- Previously on "Teen Mom 2."
- I’m scared, I’m scared, \hI’m scared, I’m scared.
[pensive electronic music]
\h\h\h\h- Oh! Holy [bleep].
I’ve never had anything \h\h\h\h\hso far up...
[coughs] My nose.
♪ ♪
- [coughs]
Holy [bleep]!
\h- Aubree started at her new school,
and I was a little worried.
They have had two or three \h\h\h\h\h\hpositive tests
at the junior high school.
- Right now, our county \h\h\h\h\h\his in red,
\hso instead of going to school in person,
you’re gonna do e-learning \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfrom home.
Mommy has been feeling \h\h\ha lot of anxiety.
- ’Cause there’s this thing \h\hcalled the coronavirus
\h\h\h\h\hthat’s ruining everybody’s school year.
\h\h- Mom, I really did wanna go to in person
and see everyone.
- We want to keep everyone around us safe
and your sister. We just--
we don’t know how it would affect her
with her having muscular dystrophy, you know?
- Javi agreed to meet me \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhalfway.
\hBut now, because it’s not convenient for you,
now you don’t wanna do it.
\hAnd you are gonna treat me like this?
\h\h\h\h\hOh, really? Is that why you tried
to [bleep] me on Tuesday...
in the Wawa parking lot...
while your girlfriend’s \h\hhome with your son?
Vee and I started a new podcast
called "Baby Mamas, No Drama," \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand...
Jo’s gonna be on our next episode.
You never blurred the lines.
\h\hWe’ve never had a moment where we had blurred lines
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlike I had in my other relationships.
- I’ve been contemplating if I should just let her
spend some days with you...
- That works, that works.
- To give me a break,
because I’m so overworked.
\h\h\h\h\hHow to you feel about spending a few days
at your dad’s house?
- But I spoke to Nova \h\h\h\h\h\habout it,
\h\h\hand she’s not totally comfortable
staying there overnight.
- I feel like, at the house, \h\h\h\h\h\hwith me and Sean,
\h\h\hwe’re still having a lot of problems with communication.
\hI’m trying to talk about our relationship and stuff.
\h\h\h\h\h- You get mad about everything I say.
- I told him I wanted him to move out.
And then you’re telling my kid, like, "Oh, Daddy has to leave."
- That made me so mad. \h- "Daddy has to go,"
and she’s like, "No, Daddy, don’t leave"
and he’s like, "I have to leave."
\h\h\h\h\h- And he’s like, "Well, your mom’s making me leave."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI’m, like, "Don’t tell her that."
- I was like, "Why would you tell your three-year-old that?"
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
- Since Sean and I broke up,
I’ve been focusing even more \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hon my work
to keep my mind occupied.
\hI’ll have you just write down some of the stuff that I need.
\h\h\hI’m just gonna count my inventory and my colors.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. - Shades, gloss to gel,
16 ounce volume 10, 16 ounce volume 20.
\h\h\h\hI need back bar shampoo and conditioner
’cause I’m almost out.
Capes, I need two new capes
and then two new color brushes.
That’s all I need.
\h\h\hAfter we’re done getting some of the inventory for here,
we gotta go get Kloie... \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
- From my mom’s house.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
Sean moved out a few days ago,
\hso I had to rely on my mom more to help me with Kloie,
but I hope we can learn \h\hto co-parent better.
♪ ♪
I haven’t ate all day today.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - I’m freaking tired.
I feel like when you’re \h\hstressed out, too,
\h\h\hit just, like, takes a toll on you.
Sean is staying at, like,
this extended stay place,
kind of like an apartment,
but, like, not with a lease.
You pay, like, bi-weekly \h\h\h\hon or something.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - I don’t know, I feel like
\h\h\h\h\h\hit’s, like, not my problem anymore.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - I’m just, like, done
with the back-and-forth thing.
I’m like, "Look, you do \h\h\h\h\hyour life...
I’ll do my [bleep]."
- Are you gonna let him watch Kloie,
or are you gonna have your mom watch Kloie?
- I don’t care if he sees her \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand [bleep].
He just can’t take her.
- Do you think she’s sad?
Since he’s gone?
- I don’t think she’s \h\h\h\h\h\hreally...
acted, like, way different.
It’s not like she just isn’t \hseeing him, period, at all.
You know what I mean? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hSo I mean,
she’s seeing him \hhere and there,
and she’s at that age \h\h\h\hwhere, like,
she doesn’t really understand \h\h\hanything that’s, like,
going on like that, so...
I wanna be able to--her \h\h\h\hto see her dad,
but I gotta break that, like, \h\h\h\h\hthis [bleep] cycle.
- Maybe he’ll realize \hnow that, you know,
he is by himself...
everything that you told him that he needed to do
he’ll, like, realize, "Yes." \h- Yeah, he has time to sit
and think about it, you know?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - So I feel like this is a lot
to adjust to, so I think after \htime, it’ll get a lot easier,
but I feel like he just has \h\h\h\ha lot of growing up
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat he needs to do, and him being out on his own
will definitely help \h\h\h\hhis ass grow up.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- It’s been stressful \hhaving all the girls
doing e-learning from home,
but because COVID cases \h\h\h\hare going down,
Addie and Aleeah are going back to in-person school,
and today is Aleeah’s \h\h\h\h\h\hfirst day.
Gracie, are you ready? \hIt’s your first day!
♪ ♪
- Go to sleep, go to sleep.
- Are you excited? \h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- It’s your first day, queen!
\hLove you. - Love you.
- All right, just make sure you turn your lights off.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. - I’m a bit nervous
to send them back to school,
but it will be good \h\h\hfor the girls
to get some space \hfrom each other.
Hold my hand.
Go ahead, girl!
All aboard!
- Choo-choo train! \h\h\h\h- [laughs]
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\hEven though Gracie’s the only one going to school,
we all gotta go on the ride.
Are you nervous? \h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- Oh, my gosh!
\hWhat are you most looking forward to?
- Just being able to see \h\h\h\hpeople for, like,
the first time in six, \hseven, eight months.
- You got this!
\h\h\h\hBe brave... - Yeah, I’m brave.
- Courageous. \h\h- Uh-huh.
\h\h\h- Strong. - And careful.
- And I love you. \h- Love you too.
\h\h\h- Have a great day. - You’ll only be in there
all day, okay? \h\hThat’s it.
♪ ♪
Bye.
♪ ♪
\h- Aubree’s been at her new school
for a couple of weeks now, \h\h\hand there have been
some COVID cases in her district,
which is stressful.
My pregnancy is going well, \h\hand I’m 22 weeks along,
\h\h\hbut I haven’t been feeling great,
and with COVID cases \h\h\h\hon the rise,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI worry about staying healthy.
- Flu season’s coming.
It’s gonna be hard to know what--what you have.
- Well, yeah.
- I was thinking about where...
we’ve been in, like, the last
week or two. \h\h\h- Yeah?
- Went to the farmer’s market, but that was outside.
After my doctor appointment, \h\h\h\h\h\hI went to Target,
but I wore a mask. \h- Oh, yeah, yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mom? - What do you need?
- I want a treat there.
- Well, I’m not getting \h\h\hany treats, bud.
- Mom, please?
- I brought some stuff \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin a bag.
\h\h- No! [crying]
Please stop there! \h\h\h\h\h[crying]
\h- Watson, we’re gonna stop somewhere special
once we’re done.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- [screams] No! - You might as well just stop.
- No, [indistinct]!
- We’re going somewhere \h\h\h\h\h\hright now.
We’re going somewhere \h\hright now, okay?
- No, no!
- To get something \h\h\hfor you guys.
- [crying] \h- [sighs]
- What do you want from in here, guys?
\h\h- I’m gonna get a sucker, and I’ll get you a bag of--
how about a bag of Oreos?
- No, not a bag of Oreos!
\h\h\h\h- Okay, well, then, you tell me what you want.
- Something special.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Aww. - Something special?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Okay, I’ll find something.
\h\hAll right, bud, I’ll be right back.
- Watch.
\h\h- Why do you guys take off your shoes?
- Watch.
- There’s Dad.
- Okay.
- Dang, you kids, man, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlately.
- [laughs]
\h\h- Maybe it’s us just giving in, but, you know.
- I don’t give a [indistinct].
- I don’t care either. \h\h\h\h\h\h[chuckles]
I’ll give in.
Have at it.
I still think it’s crazy, like, \hgoing into that gas station.
I was the only one \h\hwith a mask on.
But it is kind of annoying.
\hSome places, it’s like, "Hey, we recommend you wear a mask."
\h\h\hSome places, it’s like, "We demand you wear a mask
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto come in," which I think is just fine.
\hBut then you go to places, and, like, no one has one on.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Nope. How about-- - Everybody has their thoughts
on the whole thing. \h\h\hI just think,
out of respect for everyone, \h\h\h\h\h\hyou can just wear one.
Real quick and easy, \hand then that’s it.
\h\h- I will, like, not worry about it
until, like, night when I’m \hreally not feeling good,
and then I start to, \h\h\h\h\hlike, panic
only ’cause I’m pregnant.
- Oh, for sure.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- I have all the boys this week,
and Lincoln starts in person at a new school today.
I'm a little nervous about it,
but I think it'll be good for him.
♪ ♪
My friend is watching Isaac and Creed while I take him.
You have a mask, Lincoln?
- Yeah, it's back here. - Kay.
I think you're gonna have a good day.
I know you don't really want to start yet, but...
honestly, I think it's gonna end up being
a better day than you think.
- I'm excited.
I just don't wanna go to school.
School's boring. - [laughs]
- I'm excited to play football.
- [laughs]
Lincoln!
Well, if you love football this much, I hope you put
that much effort and energy and love
into everything you do.
- Kay. - Okay?
And wash your hands. - I know.
- As much as you can, whenever your teacher will let you.
If you go to the bathroom, after you eat, before you eat,
all of it. I want you to wash your hands.
Please. - All right.
- Do you have your mask?
- Mm-hmm. Back here.
- Let me see you put it on just to make sure that it fits
and it--and you're wearing it correctly.
Do not--are you listening? - Mm-hmm.
- Do not let another child... - Mm-hmm.
- Wear your mask. - Yeah, I'm not.
- And you? Don't use anybody else's.
- Yeah, I'm not.
[mellow music]
♪ ♪
- Bye, babe! Have a good day!
♪ ♪
Oh, I'm feeling very, very nervous for Lincoln.
I don't--
I'm feeling very nervous.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Even though Nova didn't want
to stay over at Devoin's,
he's still picking her up from school at 3:00
and taking her to gymnastics at 5:00 three times a week,
which has helped me out, since I've been really overwhelmed.
[coughing]
- Don't be coughing like that, bitch.
Not in these times.
[phone rings]
- Hey.
- Where's Nova?
- She's getting dressed right now.
- Can I see her?
- Nova!
Come here.
- Hi, mama. - Hi.
- What are you doing?
- I'm about to eat some chicken.
- Girl, it's--
it's 5:00.
- We're about to leave now. I'm gonna eat in the car.
- Do you have homework, or no?
- Why can't you stay still?
- Can I say hi to Stella?
Hi.
- Hi.
- Go to gymnastics.
Make sure you eat. - Kay.
- Yeah, you gotta go. It's already almost 5:30.
Bye. - Bye.
♪ ♪
- ♪ I'm guessing, I'm begging for you ♪
♪ To understand it's complicated ♪
- Devoin has been sticking to our agreement,
but he always seems to be late,
and when I picked up Nova from gymnastics last night,
she was really upset about it.
- Hey. - Hi.
How are you, babies? - Good.
What are you doing? - You look so cute.
I love you. - [laughs]
- I love you.
Just, no--I'm just folding laundry.
I got that [bleep] to fold.
So Devoin has been late picking up Nova from school
and late to gymnastics.
Nova is very used to our schedule here.
Nova knows what time she's getting picked up,
what time she's getting dropped off.
When she goes with Devoin, it's totally--
it [bleep] everything up. - Yeah.
- He's late.
He makes her late.
She gets upset 'cause she's like,
"Mom, I was the last person to get picked up at school.
Why?" - Right.
- "Mom, I have to do 200 jumping jacks
'cause Dad was late."
Don't give Nova anxiety
like somebody forgot about her
and she's looking like, "Where the [bleep] is my parents,
and why am I the last one here at school?"
- Right.
She always gets the [bleep] end of the stick.
- Mm-hmm.
But he thinks he does enough
because he picks up and drops off for me.
- The heck?
- But if you're not gonna do it the way it needs to be done,
then don't do it at all. - Right, there's a time.
- 'Cause now you're causing my daughter stress.
- Right. - And she doesn't need it.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Even though it's just Ali and Addie doing e-learning,
it's still challenging.
- Addie's not on ST Math. She's drawing.
- Addie, you're supposed to be on ST Math.
- I am. - You keep that up,
and you're gonna be grounded.
♪ ♪
We're on our way to pick up Aleeah
from her first day at school,
and I hope she liked it and stayed safe.
What did you think about e-learning today?
- I liked that my teacher was being funny,
like, all the time.
- Addie, how was your e-learning today?
- Great. I loved my work.
- Yeah? - No, she didn't.
- Yeah, I did.
- So you loved doing testing
and you were sitting there arguing with Mommy?
- Not the testing.
- Be kind to one another.
- I am, but I'm also gonna tell the truth, too.
I'm not gonna sit here and lie to everybody.
- 'Course you are. No one is lying!
She had a great day. We had a few mishaps.
It's to be expected. I am no teacher.
- I really want to go to school.
- You do? - Yeah.
- What do you think the best part is about in-person school?
- Being able to see your friends...
- [laughs]
Do you understand why e-learning
is important for you at this time?
- Yep. - Yeah?
Why?
- So I don't get sick.
And if I can get sick, it's not very good.
- Right.
Today is Gracie's first day in person.
- I wonder what she's been doing all day.
- I'm sure she'll have lots to tell us, that's for sure.
- You guys are so funny.
You want to argue with each other,
and then you miss each other so much.
- I think Aleeah likes going to in-person school
because she likes to get away from us,
and she gets very, very annoyed with us.
- Sometimes you have to take things she says
with a grain of salt.
She does not mean that she doesn't want to be around us
or anything like that, but she thrives
in a social environment.
Here.
Hi, girl!
How was your first day? Tell us.
- Good.
- Did you keep your mask on the whole time?
- Yeah. - You felt like that all
the precautions were taken? - Yeah.
- Good.
♪ ♪
- I was outside because we had to be apart from each other
'cause of COVID.
- Oh.
But you had--overall, had a great day?
- Uh-huh.
- What's it like being back in school?
- It's fun.
- Do you miss your sisters?
- Told you. - No?
Nice having a little break to yourself?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Even though Sean and I aren't on great terms,
he did agree to work on himself
and try to do better.
And since I need someone to watch Kloie,
I decided to give him a chance.
- Yah! - Ah!
Oh, no! Oh, no!
Ah, nah, nah, nah!
- It's just a toy.
- It's just a toy? Oh, you scared me.
I thought it was a real dinosaur.
- Kloie.
Kloie!
- Is that Mommy?
- Ah, it's cold outside. - I am dancing on my feet!
- Go give Mommy loves!
- Give me loves. - Yeah.
- I got you some food. Are you hungry?
- Yes. - Yeah!
- Do you want some French fries?
- I'm just playing [indistinct].
- Did you hear back from that job you applied to?
- Not yet.
I told you that when Jake starts,
he said if I put him down as a reference,
I should get the job because it's his family friend.
- You seem a lot happier and, like,
better than you have been in a while.
- Being a stay-at-home dad was one of the worst decisions
I could have made for us,
because it just put me on the back burner
and you literally controlled everything.
I felt like a little puppet.
That's where a lot of my built-up animosity
and, I guess, attitude daily has came from.
I got--let all my emotions build up,
and I was always mad and...
being loud and yelling, and I shouldn't have been.
I just wanted to...
Say I was sorry, I guess.
- But I'm saying, imagine a person
that literally works day in and day out
to, like, buy--pay the bills,
trying to give you everything.
Trying to work hard to make sure
you have everything, you know?
I think we're just two different people.
- Well, I mean, we didn't used to be.
We were best friends before we dated, and I kinda...
miss us getting along like that.
- I feel like it's just hard. I mean, this is normal shit
that people change and grow. - It is hard, it's very hard.
- But I feel like right now,
everything we're doing, I think, is going to help.
- Well, yeah, I don't disagree. - I think, like,
living separate, having our space,
being able to work on ourselves.
And I feel like sometimes, just because...
I guess, like, maybe we don't agree about something--
- I just-- - I don't want it to be--
it doesn't have to be a fight.
I don't want to be like how my family is,
how a lot of my family members are.
Like, immediately, what you don't like what I have to say,
"Well, [bleep] you, then." Like, you know what I mean?
I want it to be more of, like, an open-ended thing.
We have to get along for Kloie's sake.
♪ ♪
[mid-tempo music]
- Since we started filming with the crew,
we've been taking COVID tests once a week,
but it's been a challenge to get everyone tested.
♪ ♪
All right, so we got our COVID tests.
If we want to film, this is what we're gonna do.
So here we go. Time to test the family.
♪ ♪
[coughs]
All right, mine's done.
One down, four to go.
♪ ♪
We're on our way to the new house,
but we learned that everyone who's gonna be filmed
has to now be tested three times a week,
and I don't know if we are comfortable
having the kids do that.
♪ ♪
I don't know what to do about filming today.
- I mean...
it's just the world right now, I guess, you know?
Which is fine. - We can't film with the kids
'cause they haven't been tested.
- Yeah. - Hola!
Okay, so...
we were supposed to film today,
and we haven't decided, like, what,
in terms of testing the kids, what we're comfortable with.
How many times--they haven't been tested, obviously.
- Right.
- So for filming today, we were gonna bring them to my mom's.
And then my mom called me when she got off work today,
and she's like, "We were exposed at work to COVID."
I guess, like, a coworker...
tested positive that they've been, obviously, working with.
- Wow. - So she's like,
"I don't think I can watch the kids."
- And so we have the kids in the car.
We weren't able to drop them off.
- Kay.
So what does that mean now? Like, what--
- Well, obviously...
we can't film with the kids around.
- Mm-hmm. - So...
I don't know, dude. It's just getting crazy here.
- Mm-hmm. - It's, like, for South Dakota,
it's the highest amount. - Yeah.
Right now. - Right now.
- So what are your concerns?
- I don't feel comfortable testing the kids
three times a week.
And the last time we did it,
Watson was terrified,
and it made us super uncomfortable as his parents.
- So what will make you feel comfortable
about testing the kids?
- I want my kids to have a normal life--
aside from the show in general
and [bleep] corona. - Mm-hmm.
I think everybody's just trying to keep...
everyone as safe as possible.
- And I get--I get it, I get it, I get the protocols.
Cole and I would test four times a day if we had to.
I only worry about...
I don't like making my kids scared of something.
- Right.
- Being a parent in this right now,
you always feel like you're doing everything [bleep] wrong.
- Mm-hmm. - You feel wrong if you keep
them home all the time and they're not seeing anybody,
you feel wrong if you go anywhere,
you feel wrong if you keep them home from school,
you feel wrong if you send them to school...
so adding more on top of that to make decisions
and you don't want to make the wrong decision...
- Right.
- I want to process and figure out what Cole and I
are comfortable with for our kids...
and circle back and not be, like, forced to do that.
- Right.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- I'm picking up Lincoln from school.
I hope he had a good experience
and wants to keep going.
How was your day?
- Great.
- What did you just tell me?
- You do?
- Okay, get in your seat. Come on, come on, come on.
The school is amazing?
Oh, my God--I'm so glad--
you know I cried when you left?
When I dropped you off, I cried.
- [laughs] Why?
- So I--because I was nervous for you!
I was--I just, I didn't know if you were gonna like it.
I was scared.
- I'm so, so thankful that you love it.
[upbeat music]
Vee and I are taking pictures today
to promote our podcast about parenting,
and we wanted to include the kids.
- Come here, come here!
- And we need to get our pictures really quickly.
Come on, Lux, come on! Hurry, hurry, hurry!
- You can stand with Vee if you want.
- [indistinct]!
- Do you want me to pick you up?
- She's gonna hold the baby. - There you go.
- Smile here!
♪ ♪
- I'm still at Jo and Vee's,
but last night, an episode of the show aired
where I revealed some information.
Javi agreed to meet me halfway.
But now, because it's not convenient for you,
now you don't want to do it.
And you are gonna treat me like this?
Oh, really? Is that why you tried
to [bleep] me on Tuesday...
in the Wawa parking lot...
while your girlfriend's home with your son?
- What? - Yep.
He keeps texting me and is upset
that I filmed about the situation.
You saw it? - Crazy, yeah.
- No, I'm gonna get [bleep] for it.
- How are you gonna get [bleep] for it?
- Because I look messy, I look bitter, I look petty.
- Yeah, but, I mean...
- Lauren's probably a nice girl.
It's not her fault.
Wish that I never did that,
but it's not my [bleep] responsibility.
Like... don't do things if you don't want them to--
- I'm fine. Like, I just literally
caused a [bleep] storm for no reason, and I...
need to clean up what I did.
I'm never doing that again.
I'm never gonna talk about [bleep]
like that ever again.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Sean has been watching Kloie
a lot while I'm at work.
I'm happier with the way things are going now,
and I want to see how living separately does.
- Why are you trying to kick me, dude?
I'll beat you up. I'll beat you up.
[Kloie screams excitedly]
All right, get up. Let's go get dressed.
- Okay. - Okay?
Come on.
♪ ♪
- Your menus are here under your table.
I'll be back in a few moments, okay?
both: Okay. - Thank you.
Did you work today? - Yes.
That's why my hands are all purple.
I just dyed one of my client's hair purple.
Fall vibes.
- So how's Kloie been?
- She's good. She's at the house right now.
Sean--yesterday, he came and watched her
while I was at work, and then today,
he watched her while I was at work early this morning.
I feel like she's really happy 'cause she's still seeing Sean.
Like, you know what I mean?
It's not like she's not seeing him at all,
so I think she's not really noticing
'cause we're both still around, like--
if Kloie sees us both happy and getting along all the time,
like, this will be better.
And then us not seeing each other all the time,
when we see each other, we can appreciate the time together.
I feel like he was just in a negative mindset.
And I'm so happy that he's finally changing
and starting to be, like, more positive about the situation.
That's why... taking it day by day.
- You done with Sean. I know you love him,
and then, one day, I'll come over,
and Sean will just be back and I'll be like--
- Well, I'm not saying I'm done with him.
The space, you know, makes the heart grow fonder.
- [laughs] You gotta miss him.
- I gotta miss you. Leave so I can miss you.
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
[mid-tempo music]
♪ ♪
- Buckle up.
Buckle up.
♪ ♪
Even though Aleeah is back in school,
the twins still spend
a lot of time together because of COVID,
and I've recently noticed more tension between them.
Can we put that in the back, please?
The suitcase?
- We don't have room to put it back there.
- Yeah, we do! We have a whole trunk.
- Well, Ali's lazy and don't-- - Hey, hey!
- [gasps]
- Give it to me.
- She just hit Lucky! - Don't call anyone lazy.
Yeah, and you hit her in the head!
Do not call someone lazy again! - I didn't know!
- Okay, I'm just letting you know now.
Aleeah, did you mean to hit your sister?
- No! - Then tell her you're sorry,
'cause you didn't look and you called her lazy.
- I did say sorry!
- Okay.
♪ ♪
I'm not sure if I asked both of you
or if I asked just you, but...
♪ ♪
Either way, we could just be a little bit easier.
- You said, "Aleeah, can you put that in the back?"
I was giving it to Ali to go put it in the back 'cause I--
- Okay, let's talk about this later.
Our entire freaking--our entire freaking ride to your dad's
is gonna be about this.
And you want to continue to argue with me about it
instead of resolving it.
- No, I'm not trying to argue.
- Okay, I don't want--I'm not going to.
- I'm not trying to. - Okay.
- I'm just trying to talk to you.
- I just wanted us to see where we're showing up
and how we can show up differently.
And calling people lazy or reacting or--
- I didn't know another word.
- Huh? - I didn't know another word.
- Okay, but learn other words.
Be open to learning other words than "lazy."
- She don't, like--
we just think that she don't want to do things--
- Okay, well--okay, well, that's not always true.
That's not always true.
- You didn't even ask me if I was going to do it or not.
- Yeah.
- Because that's what she usually does!
- Okay, and she also gets more tired than you do, easily!
Be considerate of others.
Listen, I apologize if I seemed a little...
angry.
I was when I saw the reaction from each of you, okay?
And all--my only question is for you to
do a little reflecting
and see how that could have been prevented
and done a little differently.
♪ ♪
I love you guys.
I love you, Grace.
Aleeah?
Okay, she doesn't love me right now, that's okay.
There's a different dynamic to our family.
Raising a daughter with unique differences
and a compromised immune system
kind of... I mean, it affects all of us.
Since school shut down last spring,
they've been with each other nonstop.
If you know the past ten years of conversations
that we've had with Aleeah over the years,
you would understand that...
there's a lot that she doesn't understand.
And there's a lot more hurt and anger that she feels
and she didn't know how to express.
And that, like, breaks my heart.
I don't want that--her to ever feel that way.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Mommy, I don't think this is how it's supposed to look.
- Just do it anyway, babe. It's a tie-dye shirt.
I don't even think it matters at this point.
- You know what, I'ma just put this in God's hands.
- Okay, right here, Stella, look.
- Bless us this shirt... to look fly as hell.
- Baby, here.
- Ma, what are you doing with your shirt?
- I just did that. I don't want anything else.
- At the ends?
- You really think you creative, huh?
- Let me get your shirt. - No, no, don't mess it up!
I did my own artwork.
♪ ♪
- Bring up a soda and some chips for your sister.
And you guys can sit on the floor and eat it.
I don't want crumbs on the bed.
- Kay.
- Bye.
I am going to text Devoin real fast
to remind him to pick up Nova on time
from school tomorrow.
Because he's been late
and for me to remind him not to be late.
- So it must be, like, bothering her...
- Definitely. - If she's, like, asking you...
to text him.
- He wrote back saying, "Are you stupid?
Have u been in those car lines?"
The [bleep] does that mean, "Are you stupid?
Have u been in those car lines?"
Yes, those car lines are long, but I'm never [bleep] late.
"That bothers Nova, so please just be on time."
- If she's saying he's late, it's not, like, car line late.
- No, it's, like...
she's by herself. "Where the [bleep] is my dad?
Why am I the last one here?" - Yeah.
- That's [bleep] up.
Never in my life have I done that.
He's writing back. Oh, God.
"[bleep] you, if you don't like how I do it
then you can pick her up."
"[bleep] you too, just be on time.
Bye."
Like, I'm trying to express to him his daughter's concerns,
and it's just, like, this is what I get.
Nova's school schedule and gymnastics schedule
go hand in hand, so it's, like,
if the car line starts at 3:00
and you don't get there till 5:00,
and then her gymnastics is at 5:30,
she doesn't have time to eat,
she doesn't have time to do her homework,
she doesn't have time to do none of that.
So now you're rushing and now she's late to gymnastics too.
What the [bleep] are you doing?
You know when she has to get picked up.
But I'm the ass.
♪ ♪
[mid-tempo music]
♪ ♪
- I have to drop Lincoln off with his dad,
who is still upset with me.
♪ ♪
[Creed crying]
- Okay.
[Creed crying]
All right, Lincie-dink.
[Creed crying]
- Bye.
- Tootles!
- Where's my champion?
- Hi. - What's happening?
My champion!
- You didn't bring your backpack.
- Bye, Lincoln!
- I don't know--I don't know where it is.
Give me a hug and a kiss.
[Creed crying]
I love you. Be good, okay?
I'll drop--I'm gonna drop off his backpack tomorrow.
[Creed crying]
♪ ♪
I just saw her.
I know what's about to happen right now.
♪ ♪
Like, he's pissed at me. I can tell by everything.
I'm actually gonna be done for the day.
I can't. I'm done filming.
♪ ♪
- Can you guys hurry up?
She came out and said something about talking to her.
This is, like, not good.
What's about to happen is not good, this is not good.
I need you guys to really hurry up.
[Creed crying]
- Okay.
- Let me just take my mic off. - Yeah, I got it.
- This is not good, this is not good, this is not good.
♪ ♪
[bright melody]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [groans]
♪ ♪
- Here, Lucky. - Come on.
- Come on, buddy.
- I don't think--I don't think you're gonna be able
to get out on this side.
Love you. - Love you.
- Oh, ready, steady?
- Really? - What?
- You're mad at me? - Yeah.
- [laughs] Give me a hug!
It's okay.
- You got your stuff, Ali? - No.
- They had a little disagreement in the car...
so they might not be in the best moods right now.
- Mm-kay.
- Aleeah just picked up the suitcase and was like, "Ah!"
and called Ali lazy. - I mean, that's--
it happens, but she needs to realize that she needs to...
slow down and process it. - Yes.
- Before she acts.
- Reacts. That's what I told her.
I asked them how they could have handled it differently,
and then Aleeah would not--Aleeah shut down.
- Yeah.
- She doesn't understand Ali's diagnosis.
She really doesn't. - Yeah.
- And she looks at it as "lazy" because she's a ten-year-old
that doesn't understand or comprehend.
But there's also something beautiful about it.
She doesn't see-- - Yeah, it is.
- Ali as being any different than her.
- Right, and she-- - But it's still a struggle
for her too. - Yeah, 'cause she don't
understand why Ali can't do everything.
- Well, that's why she called her lazy.
'Cause she doesn't-- - Yeah.
She don't look at her that way.
Hmm. - Sisters.
They're still sisters at the end of the day.
They're gonna have disagreements.
- Yeah.
Yeah, they're gonna have their own opinions--
you know, they're coming into this age,
but also they're together every day, all day long.
- Mm-hmm.
- Figure it out. - All right, that works.
Let me tell them I love them. I feel bad.
Love you! - Love you.
- Bye. - Oh, she's mad.
- Yeah, that's how she does me.
With us being in this pandemic and COVID,
they've been around each other 24/7,
and they're getting--I mean, they're gonna have arguments.
All right.
Now that...
they're going to school in person,
I definitely think that it will give them
some time to themselves,
and they'll enjoy the time together more.
Ali has a lot on her plate trying to navigate
that--you know, her way of living life,
but Aleeah also has dealt with a lot,
having a sister with unique differences.
Most adults don't understand muscular dystrophy,
let alone a ten-year-old.
And I know that, individually,
they each go through their own...
own things.
And I want to be able to support them.
[dramatic mellow music]
♪ ♪
- I thought Sean and I were on the right track,
but this morning, he was supposed to watch Kloie
when I went to work, and he showed up really late.
Sean was upset that I wouldn't talk to him about it,
and he broke out my window.
♪ ♪
- Kay.
♪ ♪
- And the cops still ain't got here.
It's property destruction.
Trying to break in her house, that's all crimes.
If I did that [bleep], I would right now be in jail.
Swear to God.
- You guys had such a good conversation
the last time I was here,
so I don't understand what happened.
- I don't know what his deal is.
I mean, one minute he's fine, the next minute,
he's busting a window out of my dining room.
He was supposed to be watching her
and then was gone for, like, hours
and didn't communicate with me, like, just on [bleep].
I'm like, "Look, the only thing you're good for right now
"is helping babysit, and you're not even doing that right now
"because I'm over here being 20 something minutes late to work.
"I have to give her to my neighbor and let my neighbor
watch her until you just magically showed up."
So he wants to come in.
And I was like, "Well, why am I gonna let you come in?
So you can sit and scream at me?"
So then he got [bleep], because I was like, "You need to go."
And he was like, "[bleep] you, bitch, I wanted to go.
I've been wanting to be gone."
And I'm just ignoring him at this point
'cause I'm just like, "Someone's gonna call the cops
'cause you're out here screaming."
And then he busted my window out because he was pissed.
And then I said, "Well, I'm calling the cops
to press charges." And he was like,
"The cops ain't gonna do [bleep], I won't even be here."
I basically called the non-emergency line,
and then the lady was just like...
"Don't answer the door when he comes."
That's all she told me. And then she was like,
"A cop--someone will call you."
I'm like, "Why isn't there a cop taking this report?"
This is--'cause I'm like, "What if I have to get
a restraining order on him?" I need some kind of proof.
Like, "Hey, this is what I'm talking about."
So do I have to wait until he comes in and breaks in my home
and [bleep] beats me or hurts me
or stalks me or something like that?
- Where are the protections for you and for Kloie?
- She goes, "Well, I advise you to just put a piece of wood
up to it." And I was like...
I'm, like, I don't know what he's going for here.
I don't--I feel like he's not thinking rational,
so I'm like, "Who knows what he's thinking
"late at night when he's pissed off
and decides to come back here?" - Right.
- Or something; I don't [bleep] know what he's thinking.
I'm done with it. I'm done trying to play nice.
I'm done playing, period. Over.
Over with, 'cause this is the last straw.
- ♪ I'll buy my time ♪
♪ No, I can't hide here for long ♪
♪ I close my eyes ♪
♪ Just to see what I lost ♪
♪ You'll never find me ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'm locked away in my own mind ♪
♪ Prisoner ♪
♪ I know there's a door that I can't find ♪
♪ Prisoner ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Prisoner ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Prisoner ♪
♪ I'll buy my time ♪
♪ Here for long ♪
- I really did Lauren dirty.
Oh, my God, she texted me.
I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
- Ali has had fever, sore throat, headache.
- Again?
- Devoin put my phone number on Instagram.
- Sean told me he was gonna come back and destroy my car.
What if I need to get a restraining order?
- Right now, I'm at rock bottom.
- I'm questioning if my time on the show
is coming to an end.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪