female announcer: Previously, on "Teen Mom 2"...
- That was a rough fall.
- I've never cried that loud.
- I've noticed that you're really struggling.
How do you guys feel about returning to activities?
- I really miss cheer.
- Are you ready for your first day of dance in a long time?
- Yeah!
- She was running a fever yesterday of 103.6.
- They are negative for the COVID which is great,
but they are positive for strep.
- Can we put that in the back, please?
- Hey, hey!
- You didn't even ask me if I was going to do it or not.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause that's what she usually does.
- Okay, and she also gets more tired than you do easily.
- I wanted to sit down with you guys
so that we can come to some type of solution
because I feel like I'm doing everything by myself.
I said, "As far as what I'm asking for,
I would like 250 a month each for the girls."
Luis wrote me back. - And he said?
- "That's fine. I'll try to do more when I can."
Devoin texted back saying, "That works for me."
- Bitch got a $15,000 body.
I don't even have $15,000 worth of [bleep].
- [cle - [bleep] outta here.
- He's always like,
"Oh, me and you didn't grow up the same."
I don't give a [bleep].
Me and you have the same daughter.
Why am I stuck with all these responsibilities
and you are not?
If she goes with Devoin, it's totally--
it [bleep] everything up. - Yeah.
- He's late.
Won't give Nova anxiety like somebody forgot about her.
"[bleep] you, if you don't like how I do it,
then you can pick her up."
I can't even deal with it.
This is why I can't have a conversation
with him to his face because it'll get really bad.
- Like, at first, I didn't think
this coronavirus thing was actually a big deal.
- It's a huge deal! - Well, I'm getting scared now!
I would love to have our fourth and probably our last baby.
- Oh, my God. - It's legit!
It's crazy, like, going into that gas station.
I was the only one with a mask on.
- We got our COVID tests.
Um, if we want to film, here we go.
Time to test the family.
[suspenseful music]
- We were supposed to film today
and we haven't decided, like,
what in terms of testing the kids
what we're comfortable with.
- Being a parent in this right now,
you always feel like you're doing everything [bleep] wrong.
- Jade's about to graduate! [cheers and applause]
- I see, like, something on the counter
and my mom was like, "Yeah, that looks like
some kind of, like, drug residue."
I just want you to take a drug test
and prove you're not doing drugs.
- Did it say I passed? - Yeah.
Now that, COVID's, like, calmed down and everything's open,
I want you to start, like, working and stuff
so we both are busy. - Mm-hmm.
I would love to go back to school
and get, like a music degree.
- You can go to school and you can have a job
because you do the school [bleep], like, part--
- I know, but I wanna get--
I wanna figure out my high school part of it first.
Miss control freak over here.
- I'm not a [bleep] control freak.
Man, you can go to hell. [bleep] you.
- I'll save you a seat.
- Told him I wanted him to move out
and she's like, "No, Daddy, don't leave."
- And he's like, "Well, your mom's making me leave."
- 'Cause he tried to do that to try to hurt me.
- I got-- let all my emotions build up
and I was always mad and being loud and yelling
and I shouldn't have been.
And I just wanted to say I was sorry, I guess.
- He busted my window up because he was pissed.
And then I said,
"Well, I'm calling the cops to press charges."
And he was like, "Cops ain't gonna do [bleep]."
- I'm pregnant.
I have not talked to Chris. I don't talk to him.
Don't want him in the delivery room,
I don't want him on the birth certificate,
I don't want anything to do with him.
I've decided to do a home birth.
Javi, he texted me and was like,
"Oh, I'm not gonna do anything for you
'cause you're mean to me and Lauren."
Oh, really?
Is that why you tried to [bleep] me on Tuesday?
In the Wawa parking lot?
He's pissed at me. I can tell.
I just literally caused a [bleep]storm
and I need to clean up what I did.
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
[glass shatters]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I called my local police department's
non-emergency line to file a report
after Sean broke my window.
♪ ♪
Mommy'll be just a second. I'll be right back, okay?
♪ ♪
Hi. - So what happened?
- So today-- basically earlier today,
I went and let my ex-boyfriend in my house.
I was like, "You don't need to come in.
"You just want to come in and argue,
which I'm not gonna do that." - All right.
- And he basically got pissed off
and then busted out my dining room window.
And then--yeah.
And then he basically just peeled off
and that was it, I guess, which I--
he's never done anything like this.
And he's outside calling me [bleep], whore, bitch--
I'm surprised my neighbors, I mean, didn't come outside
'cause of how he was just acting erratically.
Because when he doesn't get his way,
he throws a big [bleep]fit.
- No.
So I don't know if he's, like, lurking around here?
He told me he was gonna come back tonight
and destroy my car.
What if I need to get -a restraining order
and what if, like, I need, like, evidence, like,
"Hey, this is what's happening to me,"
if I feel like it's getting, you know, further than that?
But-- - Yeah, yeah.
- Okay. Thank you very much.
I appreciate it. - You're welcome.
Have a good day. - You, too.
♪ ♪
I'm gonna call Kelsey. You wanna say hi to Kelsey now?
[phone line trilling]
So the cop just got here. Made a report.
- When is enough going to be enough for him?
You've had these talks 50,000 times.
He's like, "Oh, I'm sorry." - It's the same bull[bleep].
Like, and then I'm like,
"You just busted a window out of my house.
"You, like, ruined any chance of us ever even trying
to maybe work on this as, like, living apart."
Like, why would I?
Like, "You have lost your mind.
"I don't want [bleep] to do with you.
"If you pull up to my house,
there's gonna be a [bleep] problem."
♪ ♪
- The twins are with their dad and they're getting along,
but Ali hasn't been feeling well.
- How you feeling? - My throat.
Here.
♪ ♪
[thermometer beeps]
♪ ♪
Yeah, so Ali has had a fever,
fatigue, sore throat, headache since yesterday.
Her fever got up to 102,
so we are going to get another COVID test
and check for the strep and the flu.
♪ ♪
[phone ringing]
- Hello.
- Hey. - Hey.
- Again? - Yeah.
- I mean--and we've been extremely careful
from the very beginning of this pandemic.
We already enrolled Addie and Aleeah into in-person school
for this semester and we can't change that until January.
- Yeah.
Feel like we need to really take a step back
and kind of look at this as an eye-opener
because this is how easy is it is for them to
pick up any kind of virus or illness.
Do you really think we should continue with extra activities?
- Aleeah, she'll have to
just step out of this season for cheer.
And I know [bleep] gonna be hard for her to understand.
- Well, I think we're doing the right thing
even though sometimes
the right thing isn't always the easy thing, but--
- Yeah.
- I'll talk to you another time.
- Okay. - All right.
- All right, bye. - All right, bye.
♪ ♪
I never would've anticipated
having to hold back Addie and Aleeah to keep Ali safe,
but when one of our family members are at high risk,
You know, we think it's better to be safe than sorry,
so it is extremely important
for me to make sure that
Addie and Aleeah don't become resentful of their sister.
And it's also really important to me
that Ali doesn't feel guilty.
So there's a lot to kind of navigate and balance here.
Sucks.
♪ ♪
- Devoin hasn't been consistent picking Nova up,
so I told him I'd get her from school this week.
And today, I have something fun planned for the girls.
- My name is Charlie. - Hi, Charlie.
- Where we going today, Stella? We're going to the circus!
- Yay! - Whoo!
It's not gonna be the full circus because of COVID.
It's going to be a private show just for us and Shae is coming.
Somebody else will be there.
A special little event for us.
- ♪ Living my best life ♪
♪ Living my best life ♪
♪ Do what I feel like ♪
♪ Living my best life ♪
- This man is getting in there.
- This man done lost his mind, y'all.
- Oh, my God! - Oh, [bleep]
[cannon bangs] [excited chatter]
- Whoa! - Whoo!
- Oh, my God.
- I know. It's crazy, right?
- This is so cool.
- ♪ It's a love affair ♪
♪ Hey, you never know ♪
♪ We living on a prayer ♪
♪ I turn it up another notch ♪
♪ I rock it loud and make it hot ♪
♪ I spike the punch, I make it pop ♪
♪ Pop, pop, don't stop ♪
♪ Living my best life ♪
♪ Do what I feel like ♪
♪ Living my best life ♪
♪ Staying up all night ♪
♪ Keeping it all right ♪
♪ Do what I feel like ♪
♪ Living my best life ♪
[notifications chiming]
[dramatic music]
- Yo, Devoin put--
he put my number somewhere out and just--
- Why?
Are you [bleep] kidding me? - What happened?
- I'm arguing with Devoin via text message
and he puts my phone number on Instagram.
So now, everybody keeps [bleep] calling me.
So now my number is all over. I'm so--
♪ ♪
- But why would he even [bleep] post that?
- The conversation was me telling--
us talking about him picking Nova up
Monday through Wednesday.
I said, "I'm gonna do it.
"If I can't pick Nova up those days,
you can pick Nova up those days for me."
- So he's like,
"So making it clear, you're keeping Nova away from me?"
- I said, "No."
And then he was like, "Briana, you're scum,
rot in hell, starting using condoms."
I'm turning off my phone... - Overdramatic.
- Because everybody's calling me.
Girl, FM.
They don't got a man around, not a grandpa,
not a uncle, not a male cousin,
nothing.
Bitter-ass men haters. Nova won't be one.
I don't understand. - Yeah.
- I don't [bleep] get it.
Why would he put my number all over the place?
What are you texting him? - He blocked me.
- Left her phone number... - He blocked me.
- Exposed.
- I'm going back inside. I can't deal with it.
- [bleep]wad. What a [bleep] [bleep].
Just take a deep breath.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ All I want to know is ♪
♪ Are you ready to come alive? ♪
- COVID cases are continuing to rise in South Dakota,
so the crew flew home and we're gonna self-shoot.
Watson, you want your donut? - Mm-hmm.
- He wants his.
Pringles and donuts. What's up?
- Oh, my God.
Something's been weighing on me the last few months,
and I'm finally ready to talk about it on camera.
♪ ♪
Record. - [giggles]
- Close down the window. The cats.
- And record.
Hi. - Hello, honey.
- COVID is peaking in South Dakota.
Literally the highest cases we've ever had.
- Yup.
- Everything in our kids' lives have changed.
You know,
we're trying to navigate this really [bleep] time.
- Yeah.
- So I'm glad the crew went back
and we're just able to self-shoot
because it's just like--
- It's the safest for everyone. - Right.
So I have just been really thinking about it.
Lately, I just feel like I'm questioning
if my time on this show, "Teen Mom," you know,
if it's coming to an end.
Like, thinking about it, it's definitely not an easy--
Because, I mean, I have been doing this since I was 17.
[soft acoustic music]
- Push, push, push, push, push, push.
♪ ♪
- It's so weird just being at school
and, like, I have my baby.
Happy birthday! [both squeal]
Can you blow out your candles? [all cheering]
I don't know.
I just feel like I have a lot to think about.
I'm probably not gonna say anything to the kids
until I've made, like, a actual decision.
- Yeah. - Or we do.
All right.
Are you scared? - No.
- You're not at all? - Not at all.
- Why am I?
- It'll be just fine.
♪ ♪
- Hello. - Hey.
- Hi.
What's going on?
- So I'm, like, embarrassed that I said anything on camera.
Like, I'm embarrassed.
I actually forgot about that scene that I filmed.
And now that it's airing, I'm like,
"Wow, I really did Lauren dirty and it wasn't even about her."
Like, it was but I didn't have to do her like that, you know?
If I was gonna say anything,
I could've just texted her or called her
and said something to her directly.
I was basically saying, like,
"He would be willing to come here to [bleep] me," basically,
"but wouldn't come to drop off the kids."
- Right. Yeah, you're genuinely--
- But, like, I'm sick to my stomach about it.
- 'Cause you feel bad.
- For her. - Right.
- I feel bad for her. - Right.
- Because I keep putting myself in her shoes.
If that was me and that's how I found out,
I would be [bleep] humiliated.
- So have you reached out to her?
- I just texted her. - She respond?
- And she read it and she didn't respond.
- Have you? - Javi texted me and said,
"I don't know what you're gonna say to Lauren,
but please have my back."
"What you want me to say?
I want to apologize to her."
Javi's one of the easier ones to deal with
in terms of, like, the kids,
but when it comes to, like, our, like--
- Like, personal relationship, yeah.
- Interpersonal relationship,
he's one of the more difficult ones
because I feel like he pushes me and pushes me
and pushes me and doesn't--
I'm never allowed to just, like, boil over.
[notification chimes] Oh, my God, she texted me.
- What did she say? - [gags]
"If you're free now, I can talk."
I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
- I feel a little queasy, too, actually.
- Okay, I'm gonna call her.
- We will stand by.
- ♪ I should have known better ♪
[phone line trilling] ♪ Better ♪
♪ Wish that I'd known better ♪
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
[bike bell dings]
♪ ♪
- The twins come home later today,
so while I'm alone with Addie, I'm gonna break the news
about withdrawing her from dance class.
- Hi. - Hi.
- Can I sit up here with you?
Ooh, this bed's comfy.
Can I talk to you for a second? - Yeah.
You can talk to me with anything.
- Do you understand Ali girl has muscular dystrophy, right?
You know the new virus that's out, COVID-19.
If she would get it,
it could potentially be life-threatening for her.
I think the safest route is to pull out of our activities,
our extra activities.
[downbeat music]
- How did this start out? Did they say to stop?
- Um, I made the decision to pull from activities.
- [sighs]
- Because Ali has already had strep twice.
- But when am I going back?
- Hopefully when the virus is better contained.
- I was just now getting to make friends.
[sighs]
- What's most important here is to keep our family safe.
- [sighs]
- You know that it's not Ali's fault?
And that she can't help it.
- You know what?
- That is incredible. You keep that dream.
I believe you.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- I filed a report after Sean busted my window.
He was pretty upset and I'm worried
because I don't know where this leaves us.
♪ ♪
Look. Look what I got you.
♪ ♪
- What is going on? What happened?
- She wanted me to start hanging out
with my friends more and stuff
so I made plans to go to my buddy's house on Sunday night.
Ended up staying up all night with him.
Long story short, she automatically
thought that I was on drugs or something
so she [bleep] went and bought a drug test.
You know?
I wasn't worried about failing the drug test
'cause I knew I wouldn't.
But if I let her drug test me again,
then I'm just giving her back control.
She was so pissed off that she wasn't having it.
And she wouldn't let me in the door,
so I started walking down the side of the house, you know,
knocking on all the windows.
And one of the windows that I knocked on
just happened to bust on me.
She thinks that I intentionally busted that [bleep] window.
- Yeah.
- And all I was doing was, just, like--
I don't know what I was doing. I wasn't thinking right.
- Are you willing to take the next steps
to pay for it and fix it and stuff?
- I still feel like I'm, like,
in between a rock and a hard place, you know?
Like, I wanna be there for my daughter,
but I can't be there for my daughter
because every time I'm around Jade,
we end up arguing about something.
- Right.
- 'Cause right now, I'm at rock bottom.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
[notifications chiming]
- ♪ Check it out, check it, check it out ♪
- My phone is blowing up nonstop and I'm pissed
that Devion would put my private information out there.
My mom and sister took the kids home
while Shae and I go to the phone store.
I have 369 text messages.
- I'm glad you guys have so much time on your hands.
- And we are going to listen to a voicemail.
- [chuckles]
- Now we have to go get a new number.
Mother[bleep].
♪ ♪
- What's good?
- What's good, hey, what's good, hey?
[indistinct chatter]
- What's good with you, though? - Ain't [bleep], man.
Trying to figure out what I'm gonna get into today.
Bro, what the [bleep] is all this [bleep]
on [bleep] Instagram
and all this other [bleep] going on, man?
- Things has been, you know,
boiling up for a long time, bruh.
Eventually, the pot overflows, my G.
- That's crazy, though.
I ain't ever seen anything like that.
- And it's not even like I'm out there just saying [bleep].
I mean, I'm just literally-- showed what she told me,
I just showed wwhat the [bleep] real..
- Mm-hmm. - That's it.
That's some [bleep] the world will never know
unless I put that out there,
so I did whatever the [bleep] I felt like doing.
I hope 1,000 people text her. - [chuckles]
- Let her know about herself.
- So, like, what was y'all arguing about through text?
- She was basically saying how, you know, all school year,
I've been taking Nova--I've been taking her to gymnastics,
whatever, you know, doing that throughout the week.
And was saying she has time to take her and pick her up.
She don't need me to do that anymore.
I just started getting pissed at that point and just like,
"Bruh, I know what the [bleep] you're doing."
Not being there Ybenefits her more.n?
That's how she thrives.
Off of, you know, being a "single mom."
That motivates her, bro.
Like, that makes her feel better about herself.
And that's also taking my--
you know, my schedule away, like, with her.
Like, that's a routine that me and Nova are used to.
- Mm-hmm.
Like, what is her problem with you?
- I don't know if she hates that Nova loves a dad.
You know, 'cause she ain't have no dad.
When I met her, she ain't had no daddy.
I'ma be the one to break that cycle with Nova.
She ain't gonna be like them.
- I don't know, bruh, at this point, you know,
something else must be done because, you know,
she can't just decide that she just wants to wake up
and just act like a bitch and just take your child.
- She want to play hardball, though.
That's how she wanna play it. - All right.
Play hardball.
♪ ♪
- So?
- I didn't want it to be on TV.
I've humiliated her enough.
- What happened?
- I mean, I apologized to her.
I feel like this isn't the first time
I've said something on TV,
this isn't the first time I've embarrassed her.
And she said that, and she's right.
She said woman-to-woman I-- that I--
if I know information or if I, you know--
then I need to give it to her.
She's literally begging me for the truth.
And I was just like, "I can't--
you guys have to work that out."
And I told her that I told Javi the same thing.
But I thought he was gonna admit at least
what was in the scene.
- So is he straight-up saying that it's 100% not true?
To her? - Yes.
But if I tell her the truth,
it [bleep] with me and Javi's co-parenting.
I don't want that at all, like,
let her call me a liar and let her think I'm a liar.
Like, I almost feel like that's what I need to do
and just let them work it out.
the responsibility does not lie squarely on your shoulders
to be the bearer of truth.
- Like, before, I don't think that I ever really cared
about how Lauren felt,
I don't feel like I cared that I embarrassed her,
but, like, if that was me in her position...
- Yeah. - I would be devastated.
- Don't make yourself feel too [bleep] awful
'cause people do make mistakes.
- Yeah, but this was a big one,
and this is, like, life-altering.
- [sighs]
- I think in therapy,
I work on holding myself accountable
for things that I've done
and the ways that I've contributed
to poor co-parenting decisions,
and I definitely am more willing to acknowledge
my faults and my mistakes
and try to work towards correcting them.
You know, that all being said,
I am human so I am going to make mistakes
even through therapy and trying to better myself.
But it's hard 'cause we're human and we still [bleep] up.
Even the best of us [bleep] up.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ Tell me that you love me ♪
- I picked up the twins last night
and I decided to tell them off-camera
about withdrawing from activities.
Ali understood, but Aleeah was really upset.
She's at school now and we're on our way tger.
♪ ♪
It's time to go pick up Grace.
I know we're going to bed early tonight, 'cause I am exhausted.
It was all the boo-hooing.
It made me feel drained, honestly.
Stuff with your sister really made me a little sad.
- I know.
- You, too? - Yeah.
- You know, last night was her first missed practice
and I just hugged her.
And she just started crying.
- I do know that makes her sad because she said she was, too.
And now they took her out of the group chats
since she was not in the team anymore.
- And this year,
she finally, like, set goals and achieved them.
So I think that's another reason why it's,
like, a bummer to her, you know?
But don't feel at fault ever.
And it's hard trying to understand your diagnosis.
And there was a lot of mixed emotion.
So if you're feeling sad,
whatever emotions that come up, feel it, let it go.
It affects everyone,
but that's why we're all here, we're all in it together.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Stuck in your head ♪
- I've put a lot of thought into leaving the show,
and I figure my dad might have some insight.
He's coming by the new house today
to see how things are going.
♪ ♪
- What's up? - Hello. What's up?
- Should I close that? - Yeah.
Just so the kids aren't...
- House is looking pretty awesome.
- I know. It's almost done.
- So what's up?
- So with the business and the house
and the baby and everything,
I just feel like I want not to be in the show anymore.
- Yeah, 11 years, nine, ten? How many years?
- Well, ours, 11. - Yeah.
It's been all over your adult life.
- And Aubree's entire life.
- And for her, I think it's probably time, too.
- Well, that's what I'm thinking is,
I feel like a lot of it has always
revolved around her personal life the most.
- Yeah.
- And as she's getting older and tween, teen years,
I just feel like that's not something
that needs to necessarily be out there
for everyone to make their opinion on.
- I think the hardest part about everything
is just how close you've come to the crew.
Oh, my God!
[cheers and laughter]
- Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
- Let's put this breast pump on your boobs. Please do.
- My boob? - [chuckling] Yeah.
And then push play for whatever the time limit.
- Then press play?
What is this, a speaker? - Yeah.
- Hello, Watson.
- I said I wasn't gonna cry because--
[laughter]
- Ready to go to a new house?
- Yup, they're coming. - Yay.
both: Yay.
- You know, they've seen--
they've been right up there through all the ups and downs
that I went through and showed on TV.
And they're close to the kids.
And, you know, I'm close with them.
Like, I love them.
I genuinely love these people
and I think that is the hardest part about this.
It's--it's just kind of crazy
to think that they won't be there anymore for that.
It'll be weird when it's done, but not--
I don't feel--it's bittersweet.
It's not a good thing and it's not a bad thing.
It just feels like the right thing.
- Yep.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
[glass breaks]
[dramatic music]
- Sean ended up coming to the house again and now he's gone.
It was really weird
so I asked my friend to stay with me for a few days.
♪ ♪
[gasps] Who is that?
Who's at the door?
- [giggling] A kid? Hi, Shakur, again!
Hi! - [chuckles]
- Hi, Kloie. [chuckles]
- You give him loves? Give him loves.
[chuckling] Okay.
You wanna go play toys? - Go play.
- Play with me! - [chuckling]
[low-pitched] "Play with me."
- [chuckles] - Whoo!
- Hello. - Hey.
So Sean came back here, like, while you were on the way here.
And I'm like, you've gotta be kidding me.
- He just broke your window. - Yes.
So he comes over here and he's at my door with a glass rose.
And I was like,
"What the [bleep] are you doing?"
And he was like, "Look, I just wanted to talk
and I wanted to give you this and I wanted to apologize."
And I was like, "Hell, no! You broke my [bleep] window!
You broke my window."
I was like, "I've called the cops, made a report,
you're gonna have to fix my [bleep] window."
- Yeah. - "From the--go!
"Like, just go the [bleep] away.
Like, you are-- you are literally delusional."
So I make sure all my doors are locked and [bleep].
And I'm, like, looking through the windows
waiting for him to leave.
And he's sitting in the car and he's like this.
Like, moving his head, moving his hands,
like, yelling, he's screaming to himself in the car.
And I'm like, "What the [bleep]?"
And then as soon as I go back out here, he pulled away.
I'm like, "Why are you, like, doing all this [bleep]?
"Now you're making it harder to see your kid.
You're making it harder for us to co-parent."
- No, he realizes that he--
- [bleep] up! - Yep.
And now, he's trying-- - You broke my window.
- Make himself look better. "Oh, it was just an accident."
- Uh-uh.
I'm like, "You can shove that rose
right up your [bleep] ass."
What Sean's lacking is just maturity
and also accountability.
You [bleep] up and you need to own up to your [bleep].
Like, you're being a lunatic, you're being crazy,
like, that's not cool.
I want to be able to co-parent with Sean
but I can't raise a child with another child.
And if he's not gonna be able to be a good example
and be a good role model and be positive in her life,
then he doesn't need to be around.
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[women vocalizing]
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- Thank you! - Thank you.
Hi, girl.
- Oh, there's my teacher.
- How was your day? Tell us.
- Good.
There's nothing really big. - No?
- [gasps] That's a Lamborghini! That's a Lamborghini.
That's a red Lamborghini. - That was not a Lamborghini.
- Yeah, it is! - Good Lord.
How do you even know what the heck a Lamborghini is?
- 'Cause I'll go get one. - Oh, okay.
Dad's buying it, too.
Aleeah's having a hard time leaving cheer,
so I wanna make sure she understands
how grateful we are that she's willing to do this for Ali.
Mm, that's nice. - Mm-hmm.
- It's a nice fall evening.
- I know this year,
you have been more driven and focused
and achieved so many goals.
Finally, you know, got your back handspring.
I am so proud of you, Aleeah, and I love you.
But, you know, it's a little different for our family.
When one of us have, you know, special needs,
then we kinda are all affected.
How does that make you feel?
- I am really sad about cheer,
but if it means protecting Ali, then I will.
I have to quit.
- I'm proud of you.
And I know personally
you've always struggled with your sister,
your twin sister, the closest person that you are to,
and I know you both equally go through a lot,
but you love each other so much.
Do you love your sister? - Yep.
- How much?
- Like, 99.9%. - [laughs]
- I texted my coach and told her to tell everyone.
- Can you read me the texts?
- This is what I told her.
I said, "Hey, I'm gonna miss you guys and maybe next year.
"I don't like this, but life is life.
"You never know what's gonna happen next.
"Please tell the team that I will miss them
"and explain why I cannot cheer.
"Tell them that it's because of COVID-19
"and my sister Ali's life.
"I do cry at night because I cheered my whole life.
"We thought we could go through it
"but we can't because of all the cases.
I will practice at home."
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- Aleeah loves cheer and she works so hard at it.
And her having to give it up is a huge deal.
Yes, it was a difficult decision to come to.
I laid in bed and I bawled.
I cried because, I mean,
what is right and what is wrong, you know?
Aleeah, I think Aleeah really wants her sister
to be just like her, you know?
Life's not always gonna be easy,
but it's only gonna make us stronger,
and that's all we can do.
Come here.
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- ♪ Feels like a rainstorm ♪
♪ Thunder roar ♪
[upbeat music]
[notification chimes]
[dramatic music]
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[dog barks]
- Hey. - Hi.
Where'd you go? - To T-Mobile.
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Listen. Go to the garage.
I don't want this back and forth.
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- So this started from yesterday?
- Yeah, no, this--
I had messaged him today and I was like, "Hey, listen.
"I took her out today.
"Don't worry about picking her up from gymnastics.
"And tomorrow, Brittany is taking Nova to gymnastics
and I'm gonna pick her up."
He's like, "Oh, so now you're taking time away from Nova?"
I said, "No, you're more than welcome to take Nova.
"Like, I don't want you complaining anymore.
"Like, you saying you're not working enough hours
"because you're picking Nova up
"so I'm gonna let you continue to work
"so you can help me out with Nova's gymnastics
and I'll take care of the picking up and dropping off."
It's not a secret.
I told him, "I'm not asking you for help no more.
"I'm gonna do everything by myself.
"'Cause I ask you for a little help,
"and it's like you do everything,
you're a top-notch dad, when that's not how it is."
The pickups and the drop-offs and the bare minimum
is gonna stop, it's gonna stop.
I'm not gonna allow it to happen anymore.
- I'm gonna tell you something.
What he did today,
exposing your number to the public?
Shady. He did that to be spiteful.
But that's illegal what he did. - Yes!
- Next, they'll be knocking on the [bleep] door
'cause this [bleep] went out and gave out your information.
- Yes.
- I will call the cops on his ass.
- And that's putting your-- his kid in harm's way.
- Officer? - That's crazy.
- I don't want this to affect Nova
and it [bleep] will in the end.
It will.
- She has a phone.
She can Google my name
and she can see everything that's coming up.
- Oh, my God.
- And I don't think he should be allowed inside here anymore.
- No.
- Because he's not only disrespecting your mom.
He said, "that family." First of all, "that family"?
Bitch, I'm a part of this family.
Text him from Nova's phone.
Be like "Listen, drop-off and pickup,
"you say goodbye to her from the [bleep] front of your car.
"I don't want your feet stepping foot in here
"until you learn how to respect everyone
that takes care of your [bleep] kid."
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- ♪ Can't stop us now ♪
- The idea of leaving the show is a really big deal.
I talked to Aubree about it
and we're gonna tell Mandi, my producer of five years,
what we've decided. [line trilling]
[chime] - Hey!
- [chuckling] - Hello.
- Oh, what a fun surprise.
Hold on, wait. I gotta move myself.
How's everybody doing? - [chuckles]
Watson! - Wonderful.
- What's up? What's going on?
Update me. How is everyone doing?
- Good. I'm huge.
So I've talked to Cole about it and just family
and we've thought about it for a long time
and I just feel like
the decision to move on from this show--
I feel like now is the time for us.
[child shouting indistinctly]
- Yeah. [chuckles]
- So happy for you
and I know that this decision was probably hard.
- Oh, yeah.
- So what was the come-to moment?
What made you go, "Okay, this is it"?
- I don't--I feel like it was so many things.
I feel like with Aubree getting older,
I want her to be able to tell me things
and not be worried about it being on TV.
I think it's just time.
I mean, it's [bleep] scary. - Yeah.
- It's all I've known since I was 17.
- Yeah.
- But I just feel like it's the right decision for us.
- Except it sucks
'cause it feels like we're losing friends.
- I know! I don't want to stop hugging.
- I'm heartbroken that I'm not gonna be with you guys
every week.
I know that the crew feels exactly the same way.
I love you guys so, so much, and I'm so proud of you guys.
- I just am so grateful and I'm just sad
because I am so sad that we're not gonna see you all the time.
- No, I'm-- - Now I'm--now I'm crying.
[laughter]
- I really thought I was gonna get through this
without crying.
- I know, same. - Me, too.
- You started it with your--
- God, Cole! [laughs]
- By no means was this an easy decision.
I just feel like the timing of everything kind of lined up.
It was all everything built in to one, big decision.
I feel like nobody I've talked to was like,
"I don't understand how you can do that,"
or, "Why are you leaving?"
I feel like for the most part,
everyone just, like, understands.
I want to be a close-knit family,
you know, have this fourth baby,
and we're moving into our new house.
Kind of just next chapter all around.
I just--I want to kick ass
and...be a good mom and a good wife,
and that's really all I've ever wanted
and that's still just all I want.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ Look into the sky ♪
♪ Asking every night ♪
♪ Where do we belong? ♪
♪ Searching for a sign for planets to align ♪
♪ And waiting for the dawn ♪
♪ The sun keeps calling us ♪
♪ And we keep looking up ♪
♪ Maybe that's because ♪
♪ We are made of stars ♪
♪ ♪
♪ We are made of stars ♪
♪ Supernovas in our hearts ♪
♪ Galaxies inside ♪
♪ Telling us to fly on ♪
♪ We are made of stars ♪
♪ ♪
♪ We are made of stars ♪
♪ Supernovas in our hearts ♪
♪ Galaxies inside ♪
♪ Telling us to fly on ♪
♪ We are made of stars ♪
all: Bye!
- I love you guys.
- Love you so much!
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- ♪ We are made of stars ♪
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