[Stella screaming]
- Hey!
- We should all cry \h\hjust like her.
[all screaming]
- [laughing]
- See how she likes \h\h\h\h\h\hthat [bleep].
- Hey, it’s Briana.
Over the last ten years,
you’ve seen me grow up \h\h\hfrom a teen mom
to a hardworking mother of two beautiful girls.
I’ve never hidden my struggles \h\h\h\h\hwith their fathers.
You kinda broke my heart.
\h\h\hLuis and Devoin are the same person.
They say they’re gonna come over,
but then they don’t come over.
My own father disappeared after I gave birth at 17.
It’s always been difficult for me to understand why.
\h\h\h\h- You don’t even know what it’s like to have a dad.
\h\h\h\h\h- Dude. - That’s a fact.
- I’m telling you right now, \h\h\h\h\hshut the [bleep] up
’cause if not, I’m gonna [bleep] [bleep] [bleep].
\h\h\h- My mom can be overprotective,
but I wouldn’t have made it \h\h\h\h\hwithout her help.
[baby crying] \h\h\h\hMom!
- Are you okay?
- Will you burp her? \h- Same for Brittany.
\hShe’s not only my older sister.
She’s my best friend.
- Can I have the box of condoms \h\h\h\h\hright there, please?
- Oh, my God. \h\h- Gracias.
- Okay, goodbye. \h\h\h- Oh, man.
- That wasn’t so hard.
- Like all families, we have our secrets.
\h\h\h- I’m scared she’s gonna tell me
\h\h\h\h\hthat’s not my biological father.
Let’s be real here.
\h- One of those secrets came out five years ago
and shook us up.
- That’s my dad, right?
- [sobbing] - Brittany!
\h\h\h\h\h\hThen this year, while filming "Teen Mom 2,"
an even bigger secret \h\h\hjust came out...
- And you never knew? \h- It wasn’t hiding.
It was trying to protect you. \h\h\h\hThere’s a difference.
\h\h\h- That threatened our family’s close bond.
\h\h\h\h\h- They brought that information to you.
Had it not been, we would’ve
\h\hlived our life and just been fine.
- Communicating to you
\h\h\h\h\his like talking to a [bleep] brick wall.
- It’s always about you, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBrittany.
- It is not about me. \h\h\h- Yeah, it is.
\h\h\h\h\h- Stop it. - It’s not about me.
- It’s always.
- Everything’s [bleep] catered \hto her and her [bleep] kids.
\h- This is "Teen Mom 2: Briana’s Family Secret."
[dramatic music]
[groovy music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Keep up ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
- [indistinct babbling]
- ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, \h\h\h\hyou better keep up ♪
- You don’t want it?
\h\h\h\h\h\hWhy? It’s watermelon.
- No, no.
- What do you wanna eat?
[laughter]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No. You can’t eat candy.
[laughter] \hOh, God.
I don’t know what else \h\h\h\hI can give her.
[phone chimes]
[sighs]
Oh, my goodness. \h\h\h\h\h- Huh?
- So you know that picture \hI put up of Mom and Dad?
- Uh-huh.
- Someone reached out to me
asking if that was my father,
\hand that person knows who he is.
- So they know Dad?
- So they know Dad.
Do I, like, respond back? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Respond.
- Like, I don’t know.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. Be like, "Who are you?"
You know how long we’ve been \h\h\htrying to look for him?
\h\hAnd that person knows where we could find him.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- This is the photo \h\h\hthat I put up
of Mom and Dad.
[phone chimes]
"I actually know him.
"He’s my cousin’s father.
I don’t know if you knew, but you have a brother."
\h- What the heck? - I have a brother?
What the [bleep]?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut, like, how-- like, I just don’t understand.
Oh, my goodness.
What the [bleep]?
Eat your fruit.
\h\h\h- Ask him, like, if they mention anything about his mom.
Or any of his, like, siblings.
[phone chimes]
- His name is Kevin.
He’s 14 years old.
He lives in New York.
He knows about me.
They saw us on the TV show,
and they said that--yeah,
that they know who we are,
\hand that they know that we’re siblings.
- He was born in 2005.
- He was born 2005.
- We moved here 2004.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hOctober 11, 2004. - And we moved in here in 2004.
So she must’ve been \hpregnant already.
Dad pretty much hid it from us.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut, like, why? I don’t--I don’t understand.
- ’Cause clearly \hhe was with Mom
when he got that girl pregnant.
So he hid his other kid from us \h\hso Mom wouldn’t leave him,
but at the end of the day,
\h\h\hthey ended up breaking up anyway.
- Dad was still pretty much in our lives 14 years ago.
\h\h\h- He really was ’cause we moved here,
and we still saw him. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes.
He was very active, \hand then the time
that I stopped talking \h\hto him was in 2011
when I gave birth to Nova.
And it was weird ’cause, you know,
I have all these memories,
and then he just got up \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand left.
\h\h\h\hAnd that little boy would’ve been six years old
when Nova was born.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Wow, that’s a piece of [bleep] move.
I’ll tell you that.
Ooh, that pisses me off.
[phone chimes]
Is he still in his life?
- She said...
"He was active at first,
but he hasn’t been around \h\hfor two years or so."
- So he just got up and left?
\h- They sent me a picture of him.
He looks just like Dad--
- Then that’s his kid. \h\h- Like, it’s crazy.
I’m not gonna grab it.
Dad and the little boy, Kevin.
It’s, like, literally so weird.
Like, I don’t even know \h\h\h\h\hhow to feel.
I have a brother.
Throughout my whole life,
\h\hI only thought I had one sibling
and that was my sister, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hBrittany.
And then, out of nowhere,
a 14-year-old brother.
At first I was, like, upset
because, like, damn, I-- \h\h\h\hall these years,
nobody told me about it.
That’s so messed up.
\hAnd then another part of me was like, "Wow, this so cool.
I have another sibling."
\hI’ve always wanted more siblings, so...
\h\h\h- Does he think I’m his biological sibling too or no?
- I don’t know.
I feel like this is a sensitive \h\h\h\h\htopic for my sister.
We have different fathers.
My dad adopted Britt when she was a baby,
so that makes Kevin-- \h\h\h\hI don’t know.
\h\h\h- I feel like that’s my brother,
\h\h\h\h\hbut that’s not my brother biologically.
\hBut I only feel like that because
that’s my mother[bleep] \h\hfather regardless.
\h- I have to see if he would wanna get in contact with me.
\h\h\h\h\h- You better wait ’til I get back from Korea.
- I don’t know what to expect.
How are we even gonna tell Mom?
\h\h\h\hShe was with Dad, on and off, for 16 years.
♪ ♪
[upbeat pop music]
♪ ♪
- Sit down.
We gotta tell you something.
- What?
- Why do you look dumb? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJust sit down.
- Because you never say that, "I gotta tell you something."
\h\h- Because we like to just be upfront.
- You just say it. - So I’m pregnant.
- No, you’re not. \h- I’m kidding.
\h- Don’t give me a [bleep] heart.
- No, but guess what. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI am.
\h\hBut I am. - All right.
Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop, stop, stop.
What’s up?
- Briana got a DM today \h\h\h\h\hfrom someone
saying that they know Dad.
He has another kid.
- Dad has another child.
The boy is 14 years old.
[tense music]
So...that’s that.
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h- So randomly, somebody just DMs you?
- She’s a family person,
\h\h\h\hand she thought that we needed to know.
Nobody was saying nothing-- \h\h\h\h\h- Well, damn it.
Just drop it on your lap \hlike that through a DM.
Perfect.
- Don’t cry, Mom.
[emotional piano music]
♪ ♪
I’m gonna see if she’s okay.
My poor mother.
\h\h\h- [sobbing] [bleep] furious.
\h\h\h\hHe didn’t want me to know his true colors.
His true, true, true, colors.
[bleep] him.
He will not do that to you.
He will not treat you guys \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlike that.
[bleep] him.
- How do you feel about him \h\h\h\hhaving another kid?
- It’s the least \hof my concerns.
My concern is they brought \h\hthe information to you.
\h\h\h- Yeah, yeah. - Had it not been,
we would’ve lived our life \h\h\h\hand just been fine.
- But don’t you think \hit’s better to know
than not to know?
- No, it just opened up a [bleep] can of worms
that I don’t wanna deal with, \h\h\hbut I’m gonna have to.
\hThis has nothing to do with the boy.
It has nothing to do with him.
- Yeah. \hYeah.
- However, the information
was brought to your attention.
You have a 14-year-old brother.
Now where do we go from here?
’Cause I’m not running from it.
He can run all he wants.
I’m gonna deal with it.
I’ve suppressed his [bleep] \h\h\h\hfor so many years.
I try not to talk about him in front of the [bleep] cameras.
I try to protect him,
but I’m not gonna protect him no more.
[bleep] him.
This is a lot to take in.
[emotional music]
A lot.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I’m still in shock \h\h\hafter learning
that I have a 14-year-old half brother named Kevin,
\h\h\hand when I told my mom that my dad had lied to her,
she was really hurt
because they were together \h\h\hwhen Kevin was born.
- I’m gonna tell you.
I never wanted you guys \h\h\h\h\h\hto really know...
- Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- How toxic the relationship was.
\h\hI always-- - We know, Mom.
\h\h\h\h- Of who? With you and Dad?
I remember. - We know.
\h\h\h\hWe know. We’re not stupid.
\h\h\h\h\h- Just ’cause we don’t talk about it
\h\h\hdoesn’t mean that we don’t know.
- That we don’t know. \h\h\h- I remember--
- I don’t wanna talk \h\habout it anymore.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPlease just stop. - We’re just letting you know,
like, there’s no reason \h\h\hto hide [bleep].
That’s why we’re so open \h\hwith Nova and Stella.
\h\h\h\h\h- It wasn’t hiding. It was trying to protect you.
There’s a difference.
- It’s better to speak about it than to hide it under the rug.
- To know.
- Brittany was 14,
Briana was 12 when him and I
just decided to-- \hI walked away.
And I refused to open the door \h\h\h\hwhenever he came back.
Something was wrong. \h\hI just knew it.
But I couldn’t [bleep] \hput my finger on it.
\hHe had that baby, and for five years,
he kept coming back \h\h\hinto my life
begging me to go back \h\h\h\hto the house,
\h\hto be with him, to accept him back.
I have zero feelings for him,
\h\h\hbut my feelings are for you and your sister.
I hurt for you.
[gasps]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAs a mom, you don’t want your kids
to feel unnecessary pain.
You wanna protect them.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I know. I have Nova and I have Stella,
and I see that their fathers \h\h\h\h\hare not consistent.
\h\h\h\hAnd I’m 25 years old, and I still think about dad.
And I don’t want that \h\h\hfor the girls.
I’m confused about my dad.
\h\h\hWhy doesn’t he call? Why doesn’t he reach out?
I don’t want that for my girls.
I don’t want them to--
I don’t want these dads \hto be so inconsistent
\h\h\hthat it [bleep] up their mental health for these girls.
\hLike, I don’t want them to go through the [bleep]
that I go through every day.
So it’s like, I just battle \hwith myself all the time.
\hThat’s why I need to see a therapist.
\h\h\hBecause I got [bleep] up issues.
[emotional piano music]
♪ ♪
[soft acoustic music]
Brittany’s gone on vacation to Korea with some friends.
\h\h\h\hShe’s going to be gone a month.
\h\h\h\hShe told me she wants me to wait
\hfor her to get back before meeting Kevin.
I’m gonna spin you. - Close your eyes.
- [laughing]
- Where’s Stella?
[laughter]
- Cheater.
\h- Wait, wait. I just got you!
[laughter]
- Brittany has emotions \h\habout meeting Kevin
which I understand,
\h\hbut I can’t wait for Brittany either,
\hbecause if it was me waiting for Brittany,
\h\hI think she would hold off on it for a really long time.
It sounds selfish, but I don’t \h\h\h\h\hwanna wait that long.
I’m going to call him tonight.
- It’s okay. \hIt’s okay.
You’re okay. \hYou did it.
\h\h\h\hHigh five. Good job. Good job.
♪ ♪
[light pop music]
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- So the person that reached out to me via DMs
telling me that I have a 14-year-old brother,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hshe gave me all his contact information.
[line trilling]
Kevin was down to talk to me, \h\h\h\h\h\hand I called him.
♪ ♪
’Cause I didn’t really know what to say to Kevin, like,
sometimes I would talk to him \h\h\h\hlike he was my child
’cause I have two kids
so just, like, automatically \h\hinstinct, like, mom mode.
And I was like,
"I definitely want to come \hto New York to see you."
And he was like, "Yes, please. I wanna spend time with you."
So I’m thinking about going \h\hto New York to see him.
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
[upbeat electronic pop music]
♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm ♪
[screaming]
- You look so hot though. \h\h\h\h\h\h\hI like it.
- Hi!
- ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm ♪
- Let’s go inside.
- ♪ Yes ♪
- All right. Ready? \h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes.
\h- Okay. - Right?
all: Whoo!
- ♪ Gimme more of that good, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hgood stuff ♪
- [laughing]
- No, I wanted to get \heverybody together,
you know, just to hang out.
I haven’t had a girls’ night \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin, like, forever.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- In forever. - My week has been crazy.
\hI just found out that I have a 14-year-old brother that I--
\h\h- Holy [bleep]. - Are you serious?
- Yes, from my dad’s side.
- A 14-year-old brother? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes.
- And you never knew? \h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-mm.
\h\h- Nuh-uh. - Oh, my God.
- That’d be [bleep] crazy. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes.
He lives in New York.
And I called him, and we spoke.
And now he wants to meet me.
\h\h\hAnd so I’m gonna go to New York to meet him.
- When are you going \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto New York?
\h\h\h- I don’t know yet. I gotta figure that out.
Plan on going soon.
\h\h- How do you feel? - I don’t--like, weird.
Like, a part of me is happy, but then a part of me is sad
\h’cause, like, my father kept this secret from me.
- Is he in his life? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No.
\h\h- Oh, [bleep]. - He’s in and out.
He’s not consistent. \hTwo years ago, he--
- Oh, [bleep]. \h\hThat’s out.
That’s not in and out.
\h\hI thought in and out, like, two, three months.
\h\h\h- And then my brother texted my dad and was like,
"Hey, I’m talking to Briana. \h\h\h\h\hWe’re in contact."
And my dad was like, \h\h\h"That’s cool."
- That’s it?
- And then I tried \h\hcalling my dad.
\hHe didn’t answer. He blocked my phone number and everything.
- What? You need to pop off. \h\h\h\h\h\hPop off. Pop off.
\h\h\h- I told my mom, and she started crying.
\h\h\h\h\h- Holy [bleep]. - My mom started crying.
\hMy mom was like, "What the [bleep]?"
- What about his mom?
\h\h- She used to take me and my sister to the park
when we were younger. \h\h\h\h\h- For real?
\h\h\h\h- Holy [bleep]. - My dad and all of us.
- Oh, my God!
So what would he tell your mom?
- That’s why Mom is so upset.
\h\h\hWe think that my dad moved us to Florida to keep
the little boy a secret. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- [gasps]
- Holy [bleep]. \h\h\h\h- Yes.
- Are you expecting anything \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hor like--
\h- No. - Okay.
- Because, you know, I don’t \h\hmean to sound messed up,
but I have my sister.
All I know is my sister. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm.
\h- So how do I start building a relationship with a stranger?
But I guess--I don’t know. We’ll see what happens.
Like, I don’t know what to expect.
\h\h\h- If it doesn’t work out, if he decides, "You know what,
\hthis is too much for me," at least you did your part.
You’re his older sister. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I know.
- At the end of the day, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat’s--
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I know. That’s so weird to say that.
- You’re an old sister. \h\hYou were the baby.
\h\h\h\h\h- I know! I know! - Now you’re not the baby.
- Uh-huh. - Right.
- Let me be the person here-- \h\h\hthe bad one, I guess--
if they knew about you,
\h\h\hwhy did they wait until now to reach out?
- I don’t know.
- Is it, "She’s on TV? \h\h\h\h\h\h\hLet me"--
- I don’t know.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic pop music]
♪ ♪
- I have a lot of questions
so I've decided to go to New York
to meet my half brother.
It's only been a couple weeks
since I found out he existed,
but it feels like I've been waiting years to meet him.
[line trilling]
I am super excited to see my brother.
This is something that I kind of lose sleep over.
Like, I just wanted to meet him.
I wanna get to know him. Like, this is half of me now.
Like, it's time for us to build this relationship.
Hello?
- Yeah. - Hey, mom.
What is Stella doing?
- Oh, okay. I just landed in New York.
- Yeah, I'm okay.
- No, nothing.
I'm gonna go to my hotel and settle in.
And then tomorrow, I'm gonna meet my brother.
So we'll see what happens.
I don't-- I don't really know to expect.
- I'm all right.
I don't know. We'll see.
- I know.
My mom is very, like, on the fence.
She's happy for me, but she also wants me to hold back,
and she doesn't want me to give it my all
because she doesn't want me to get hurt
which, as a parent, she's just trying to protect me.
I wanna try to build a relationship,
and if we can, then that's great.
And if it's something that is like,
"Hey, you have a brother," and it's just like,
"Oh, whatever," then I can just say at least I tried.
♪ ♪
[horns honking]
I've stayed in touch with Kevin's cousin, Lidiana,
who's helping to organize our first meeting.
- Hello? - Hey. How are you?
It's Briana.
- Hey, I'm fine. How are you?
- I'm good.
I'm a little nervous, but I'm also super excited
'cause, you know, I've been wanting
to meet him for a while now
since you reached out earlier this month.
It's crazy, you know,
to know that I have a brother out there.
Like, it's insane. It still hasn't hit me yet.
So hopefully today will be a good day.
- Yeah. He is very nice,
so you don't have nothing-- - Yeah.
- Like, you don't have anything to be nervous about.
- I'll give you an address where we can meet up,
just, like, some little coffee shop around here,
and then we'll go from there.
- Yeah. Sounds like a good idea.
- All right. Bye.
- Bye.
- Okay? - Okay.
- So now you're gonna go meet your brother.
- Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm not good at these things. At surprises in life.
You know, you're meeting strangers for the first time
so you're just like, "What is going on?"
- Yeah.
Just as far as, yeah, the dad stuff, it's just--
- Save that for another trip.
I don't plan on talking to Kevin about my dad
because I don't want it to make it seem like
I'm just there about my dad to get information.
I'm there for Kevin, not for my dad.
I am definitely scared though.
Like, I don't know what to expect, so it's like,
I'm kind of on tippy toes a little bit.
Like, I don't know what to say.
Like, I don't wanna sound like I'm not cool enough.
And we'll just see how it goes.
- ♪ Come to find that we're not ♪
♪ Invincible ♪
- Bye.
- ♪ Revel in the fallout ♪
♪ Broken windows ♪
♪ Stood there in the shadow ♪
♪ Collateral ♪
♪ Everything was silent ♪
♪ Transitional ♪
♪ Everybody says "Remember to breathe" ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ But all the little wounds won't let me sleep ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ I'ma stand in the middle ♪
♪ Where you'll never see ♪
♪ Play around on the fear ♪
♪ I know what it means ♪
♪ You know when I'm near ♪
- I'm stunned that I have a half brother.
I just met him, his sisters, and their cousin.
They didn't want to go on camera,
but we had a really nice time.
- ♪ You don't like how I talk ♪
♪ How I walk, how I dress now ♪
♪ Ooh ooh ♪
- I'm excited to have this new family.
I only hope Brittany and my mom
can be happy for me.
Hi.
Hi, Stellita.
I miss you so much. - [laughs]
- So I just got back from hanging out with my brother
and his sisters and his cousin.
- Wait, how many people? - There was, like, six of us.
- What nationality is he?
- Puerto Rican and Dominican. I had a good time.
- Good. - Like, it wasn't awkward.
We all got along. We, like, clicked right away.
We ate. We played games.
Then I took him to the Nintendo store and I bought him a game.
It was fun, you know? We spoke about, like,
all our parents, and we spoke about Dad a little bit.
- I feel bad for the kid.
- Yeah. I feel bad for him.
- I feel bad for you guys.
But you guys were able to live a life with him.
You guys have good memories with him.
You guys shared vacations with him.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- You guys have tons of photos with him.
Grew up with him.
The only thing is that when we broke up,
we broke up, and I kept you guys with me.
I think he was hurt. I think he was angry.
And then when the cameras came, forget it.
And then you got-- when you got pregnant
and they started filming, forget it.
That was it. Like, taboo for him.
Nobody should know our problems.
Keep your life as private as possible.
But when we didn't do that and we continued to film,
he don't wanna deal with that [bleep].
- I don't wanna talk about him.
- But there's no excuse for him--
- Yeah.
I think, overall,
my mother and my sister are happy for me
that I get to experience this with my brother.
I know it hurts my mom
because my mom, you know, never moved on.
She stayed single.
She didn't wanna be with anybody,
and then come to find out,
my father had a whole other life.
So it's hard for my mom.
It is what it is.
Now I have somebody new in my life,
so we'll see what happens.
- All right. Love you. - All right. Love you too.
- Bye. - Bye.
[sighs]
[light pop music]
- ♪ All that we need is ♪
♪ All that we need is ♪
♪ Love ♪
- We're gonna make rice crispy treats.
Stella, you're gonna help me out.
Hold it straight. You gotta put it straight.
Just like that.
It's been a few weeks since I met my brother,
and we've kept in close contact over text.
Brittany is finally back from Korea,
but she's been kinda quiet.
Tomorrow, we're flying to New York to film
the "Teen Mom 2" reunion.
I invited Kevin to the studio,
and I can't wait for them to meet.
- It smells like a candy store in here.
- How was your trip?
- It was fun. - It was fun?
There you go.
Keep going all around. All around the whole cake.
All around.
- This my birthday cake. - Yeah.
- [indistinct] - No.
- Can I get a frosting kiss?
Mwah!
Ooh, I love it. No, I'm good.
- Are you ready for New York tomorrow?
- No. - No?
- No, I don't-- - Why?
- I don't even wanna go.
I feel overwhelmed and, like, weird.
Like, I feel off. I just have anxiety.
- Oh, are you excited to meet Kevin 'cause Kevin--
- I'm not meeting Kevin.
- Why? - I already talked to Mom.
I don't wanna meet Kevin.
I had a talk with mom when I was in Korea,
and, like, yes, I'm happy for you.
Go hang out with him if you want.
But, like, I don't--mm-mm. I don't wanna meet that kid.
- Well, then you should've told me.
You didn't talk to me about it.
- I told mom to tell you. 'Cause I was in Korea.
- She didn't tell me anything. - Clearly.
- Think about it. Keep an open mind.
- I've been thought about it since Korea.
You went to New York in the middle of my Korea trip,
so the whole time I was in Korea,
I was thinking about it. - I know you--
- That made me feel, like, out of place.
So I said, "Okay, well, that's her brother then, not mine."
I saw him as a brother.
And how you went about it
made me feel like that wasn't my brother.
'Cause, yes, technically, biologically,
that's not my brother, but on paper, that is.
- [sighs] Ay, ay, ay.
- How you went to meet him without me made me feel like,
for the first time, like, you were my half sister.
- No. I'm not your half sister.
- And that made me feel like that wasn't my brother then.
At the end of the day, like, that's my brother too
because Dad adopted me.
But how you communicated with him,
I didn't feel included in that at all.
But I told Mom I don't wanna take that away from you,
but I still felt broken,
and that's why I don't want to meet him,
because I feel broken about the whole situation.
That man hurt me more than he probably hurt you
because he chose to be my father on paper.
He didn't choose to be your father.
- You can't say that. You can't--
- You're his DNA. - I know.
- Like, he didn't have to sign that paper.
He didn't have to raise me.
And then left and just was a [bleep] person,
so everything that has to do with him,
I don't wanna be a part of.
The only thing that has to do with him
that I want to be a part of is you.
- This is news to me too,
so this was just as hard for me to figure out,
and I didn't know how to go about it.
- [sniffs] - [indistinct babbling]
- Ay ay ay. This is crazy.
- Whatever. Do what you wanna do,
but I will not be trying to meet that little kid.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[ambient music]
♪ ♪
- I told mom that this is the first time
that I feel like-- like you were my half--
I never viewed you as a half sister.
That's what happens when your [bleep] mom doesn't speak
when I ask her to do something.
- I don't wanna talk about it right now.
I don't have anything to say.
- Whatever. Do what you wanna do.
- Okay.
If you said something sooner,
I would've never invited him, so now I'm stuck--
- Well, I told your mother to tell you.
- Yeah, but-- - She said that she did.
- You gotta communicate with me, Brittany.
- Well, look...
- Nana!
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- You didn't talk to her. - Huh?
- You didn't talk to her. - To who?
- You didn't tell her that I didn't wanna meet Kevin
when I asked you to talk to her.
- Brittany called me from Korea sobbing
when she found out.
Brittany was devastated.
She said, "Mom, while I-- Briana promised me
"that she would not meet Kevin without me being there
and that we were gonna do it together."
- Like, what's going through your mind?
- Shhh. Mom has to watch the kids,
and I don't want her to be emotional.
I'll be back in two hours.
- [bleep] ridiculous. - Just go.
- Can't go to nobody for nothing in this family.
Y'all all in your own little bubbles.
It's crazy to me.
- We did speak about it. - Who's we?
Me and you? Yes.
- I did talk to Briana about it.
- You didn't tell me that she didn't want to meet him.
- Well, that was the biggest thing is,
I said, "Keep that kid away from me."
I said it in a text message to you.
- Well, I invited him and his sisters to come along,
so now I have to un-invite them.
- You don't have to. I don't have to go.
- It's always about you, Brittany.
- It's not about me. - Yes.
- Stop it. - It's not about me.
- It's always. - How is it about me?
- Always about Brittany.
- How is it about Brittany when everything's about Briana?
- You call me selfish, but you're very selfish.
- So who's picking up your kids and who's watching your kids?
Who's selfish? Everything's about you.
And how is everything about me?
I do everything for her.
Everything's so catered to her and her [bleep] kids.
[bleep] still living at home to [bleep] help her
with her [bleep] kids.
- You're in your feelings right now.
I suggest you tone it down a bit.
- How am I-- - Tone it down a bit.
- Are you kidding me right now?
- No. Tone it down a bit.
Not cool. Tone it down.
♪ ♪
[car door thuds]
- All right, yeah. So what was that about?
- I don't know. I don't know.
- She can call me selfish and everything's about me
and you don't say nothing to her?
- Okay. Tone it down. - Unbelievable.
You shut me down.
You are not the parent that I need right now.
You make me feel worse than I already do.
I asked you for one little thing
and that was just to talk to her.
La da da da da.
- What did you think of her, like,
trying to, like, pass the blame to your mom?
Like, she couldn't communicate with you?
- That's what I'm saying. Like, talk to me about it.
Like, "Hey. I'm excited for you,
but I don't want to meet your brother."
Okay, cool. And then I'll figure something out.
- Are you compassionate towards her side of it at all?
But it's always about Brittany.
When Brittany found out that she had another father
and another aunt
and another sister, like, I didn't care.
I never once at all, "Hey, me, me, me, me, me.
I'm sad too."
[scoffs]
- It's not only her dad or her life that was affected.
- Communication is key, Brittany.
You got to learn how to do that.
- Don't flip this on me like I didn't have communication
because I told you-- - You could've told her too.
- I told you I didn't want to take away her happiness
and her joy for that moment. I told you that.
- Well, damn it. You just did.
- ♪ Every day, my heart is breaking, breaking ♪
♪ Breaking, breaking ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ They’re in New York City \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hor nowhere ♪
- Despite our fight, \h\hBrittany decided
to come to New York with me.
\h\h\h\hI’m glad she came, but I’m still angry at her
because she’s refusing to meet \hmy brother while we’re here.
I just don’t understand why she’s acting the way she is.
We’re back here again. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Again.
- Time to behave.
- You behaved last time. You’ll behave this time.
\h\h\h\h- Yeah, yeah. - There’s no reason.
\h- Why didn’t you go to the last reunion?
- Why didn’t I go to the last one?
- I don’t know.
Oh, I didn’t even tell you \hwhat happened last night.
- With what?
- I was sitting there \h\h\hwith my sister,
and, all of a sudden,
she’s like, "Oh, I don’t wanna \h\h\h\h\h\h\hsee your brother.
I don’t wanna have nothing \h\h\h\h\hto do with him."
So it threw a curve ball at me.
\h\h\h\h\h\hShe was like, "I told mom to tell you,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbut I guess she didn’t relay the message."
- But I thought she was like...
- She was amped up to see him.
\h\h\h\h\h- Yes. You had told me.
- I guess I hurt her feelings
when I went to see him \h\h\h\h\hwithout her.
And then now, all of a sudden, \h\hshe doesn’t wanna meet him.
She doesn’t care about him.
- Did she know you were gonna--
\h\h\hwhen you came out, you were gonna come see--
- I told her.
\h- Did you invite her to come with you or...
- She was in Korea.
\h\h- Oh. [laughs]
- It’s not like she was \hin the United States.
\hI wasn’t gonna wait for her. She had a whole month in Korea.
I wanted to see my brother.
- So you think that’s why? \h\h\h\h\h\h- I don’t know,
\hbut it obviously hurt her feelings,
and she was crying and--
- You need to speak \h\hto her though.
Figure out why exactly--
- I’m not talking about it.
- You have to. \h\h\h\h\hWhy?
- Because there was no reason \h\hfor her to act that way.
- But you don’t know.
She’s probably thinking, "This \h\hsibling came out of nowhere
\h\h\hand is gonna take my sister away from--"
\h\h- I’m like, "Bitch, I’m not going nowhere."
- But still, maybe emotionally
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hshe feels like you’re gonna give yourself--
- Listen, the relationship \h\h\hI have with my sister
will never be the relationship \h\h\h\hI have with my brother.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Of course not. But give her that assurance.
- But she can’t be upset \h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat I want
\h\hto get to know my brother either.
- It’s your sister, Bri.
- I don’t know what goes through Brittany’s mind.
We tried to talk about it,
but things got a little bit \h\htense and overwhelming.
\h\h\h- Ze food is here. - I almost dropped mine.
- Ze food. \h\h\h- Oh.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Ze delicious... - My room is bigger than yours.
- How was it? It was good? \h\h\h\h\h- I have a suite.
- But hopefully one day \h\hshe’ll come around.
I think she should meet him \hbecause he’s really nice,
and I think they’ll get along.
What is this chicken \h\h\h\hmade out of?
- Soy.
- I don’t know how I feel \h\h\habout this chicken.
- It was hard for me \h\hbecause it was--
\h\h\hremember, I was in Korea for a month.
I was eating chicken.
\h\hAnd then I went from eating real bomb-ass chicken to this.
It was a struggle, \h\hbut the sauce.
- If it had hot sauce... \h\h\h\h\h- I ate it all.
I’m sorry. \h- [gasps]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- My [bleep] is gonna be on fire later.
- So is mine. \h\h[laughs]
\h\h\h\h\h\h- But, um, who’s coming tomorrow?
\h\h- My brother’s not coming. How are you feeling about that?
You don’t wanna see them still?
- I don’t know.
- I just don’t want nobody \h\hfeeling uncomfortable.
\h\h\hI don’t want you feeling uncomfortable,
\hand I don’t want them feeling uncomfortable.
\h\h\h- I’ma always feel uncomfortable.
- And I don’t wanna feel uncomfortable.
\h\h\h- I’ma always feel uncomfortable.
- ♪ Once lovely and bright ♪
♪ The tears on... ♪
- Because Kevin and his family \h\h\h\hweren’t uncomfortable
coming to the reunion and we had to fly home
for Nova’s gymnastics meet \h\h\h\h\h\h\hright after,
\h\hwe didn’t get to see my brother
while we were in New York.
- Come in closer \hbefore you die.
- I just know if Brittany \h\h\h\h\h\h\hhad met him,
she’d have seen how great he is.
I still want them to meet.
I’m not gonna give up.
[pop ballad]
♪ ♪
Put on your headphones \h\hso you can hear it.
- Hear it? \h\h- Yes.
Stella, you crazy.
\h\h- I’m Stella. - You are crazy.
\h- I’m Stella. - You’re crazy!
- No, you’re crazy.
- [laughing]
- She does so many things that remind me of you
when you was a baby.
- She’s hilarious.
- How was the reunion?
- I enjoyed my time \h\hat the reunion.
- What about Kevin? \h- I let him down.
- Why?
- He kept texting me \h\h\hand texting me.
"I wanna see you. I wanna see you."
\h\h\hAnd I was just busy, and then it got real late,
and I was there for such \ha short period of time,
and I had to come back.
If I didn’t have to come back \h\h\hfor Nova’s gymnastics,
I would’ve stayed an extra day \h\h\h\h\h\h\hjust to see him.
And I would’ve told him to come to the studio,
\h\h\h\h\h\hbut, obviously we’re there with Brittany.
I didn’t want Brittany feeling \h\h\hsome type of way either,
\h\h\h\h\h\hso it was just a weird situation I was in.
\h\h\h\hAnd then she was like, "Oh, I don’t mind meeting him."
\h\h\hBut then she was like, "No, I don’t wanna meet him."
She’s just confusing.
- She’s conflicted about it.
So just tread lightly \h\h\h\h\hwith that.
- I don’t want him to feel \h\h\h\h\hlike I kicked him
to the curb or left him out
’cause he’s already feeling \h\hlike that with his dad.
\h\h\h- You can’t carry that burden--that load.
\h\h\h- But that--it would be the same thing with Brittany.
- No, it’s not the same thing \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith Brittany.
Brittany’s your sister sister.
\h\hDon’t bite off more than what you can chew, you know?
\h\hBe careful. - No, I’m not.
But like I said, I feel bad.
He just wanted to hang out.
\h\hI just feel bad I couldn’t see him.
♪ ♪
\hHe doesn’t have much consistency in his life
when it comes to our dad.
And it sucks ’cause, like, my dad is a grown-ass man,
and, like, I look at Luis and Devoin and I’m like,
"Are they gonna be just like my dad?"
I just want him to know \h\h\h\hthat, you know,
I’ll always be here, you know?
I’m a phone call away. \hA airplane ride away.
And that’s just what it is.
[emotional music]
♪ ♪
[energetic pop music]
- ♪ Go about my day ♪
♪ Through your eyes ♪
♪ I feel you thinking \h\h\h\h\h\h’bout me ♪
♪ If you’re still... ♪
\h\h\h\h\h- Oh, my god. Look how freaking cute.
This is too cute. \h\h\h\h- It is!
- ♪ Clear as anything ♪
- Mom, really? \h\h\h\h- Yeah.
\h\h\h\h- Come. I got you food.
- Kevin’s turning 15.
So I decided to fly my brother
and his sisters out to Florida.
I thought that’s just something \h\h\h\hthat a big sister does.
I don’t know.
- What is going on this week?
- My brother’s coming.
Are you excited?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - You wanna meet him?
\hDo you know that that’s your uncle?
That’s your tío?
\h\hIs that weird to you? ’Cause it’s weird to me.
No?
You’re, like, closer in age so you may get along with him.
\h\h\hHe likes to play video games and stuff.
We’re gonna go to a theme park.
We’re gonna go to the beach. \h\h\h\hI ordered him a cake.
We’re gonna sing \hhappy birthday.
We’re gonna hang out.
\h\h\h\h- What park? - Probably Universal.
\h\h\h\h- Oh, hell nah. - Are you guys nervous?
- No. - No?
Are you nervous, Brittany?
- A little bit.
both: Why?
- ’Cause I’m scared \h\h\hto meet him.
- Why?
- I don’t like meeting \h\h\h\h\h\hnew people.
It gets me nervous.
I was nervous when I met you.
- No, you weren’t. \h\h- Yeah, I was.
Especially with how I met you. \h\h\hHow I met you was crazy.
[laughter]
- You came right out a vagina.
- I wanna get that \h\hout of my head.
[laughter]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yup. And she captured it all.
- How are you feeling now, Brittany, about everything?
- I’m still not, like, 100%, but I’m not gonna let my fear
or my feelings towards Dad \h\hget in the way of that.
- They’re gonna come over
and we’re gonna have \h\h\h\ha good time.
Yes? Yes?
Yes.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI think Brittany’s gonna be fine.
Brittany knows that he’s, \hyou know, 14-years-old.
He’s a little boy.
\h\h\h\h\hBrittany also knows that Kevin has nothing to do
with the situation \hwith our father.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
How was your day today, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hStellita?
Did you have a good day?
\h- I’m good. How are you?
\h\h\h- Good. - Good? Okay.
- "How are you?"
- Brittany came with me \h\h\h\h\hto the airport
\h\h\hto pick Kevin and his sisters up,
\h\h\h\hand I’m so happy that she wanted to come.
We all hung out together.
We have just been having \h\ha really good time.
I’m a big sister.
I’ve always been a little sister,
so it’s definitely different for me,
but I’m super excited
that I get to start a new life
with my brother.
A lot has happened
since I got that DM \h\h\h\hin the fall
telling me about Kevin.
\h\hWe have a new house and a whole new family.
Kevin isn’t comfortable \h\h\h\hbeing on camera,
but his older sister, \hFiFi, agreed to film
while they’re all visiting \h\h\h\h\h\hfrom New York.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hGet out. Just get out of the damn trash.
- Get out, Stella. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hGet out.
Come, I got you. \h\h\h\h\hCome. Here.
\h- You met my mom. You met my sister.
- I love your sister. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Really?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes. - Well, you don’t Brittany,
but my sister is very, like,
blocked off, but she was fine.
Do you think your mom \h\hwill tell my dad
that Kevin was here?
- I think Kevin would tell him.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah? - If he answers Kevin.
- He doesn’t answer? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNo?
That sucks.
\h\h\h\hIt’s crazy how he kept that a secret.
He didn’t tell us about Kevin \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hat all...
\h\h\h\h- Never. - Or his mother.
- The fact is, I think he owes you an apology,
\h\h\hI think he owes Brittany an apology,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand I think he owes Kevin an apology.
\h\hI’m so [bleep] pissed off at him.
\h\h\h\h\hBut then I think that when he was your dad,
he did plenty of good things.
- Okay, but he still \h\h\hain’t [bleep].
- Today, he’s not [bleep],
but back then, he was able \h\h\hto do the right thing
up until he did what he did.
He kept it a secret. \h\h\h\h- We’re done.
\h\h- No, honey. This just began.
- Shh. Cállate.
- [chuckles]
\h\h\h\h- Well, either way, I’m glad you guys are here
and I’m glad your mom \h\h\hlet you guys come.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- So am I. - And you guys are more
\h\h\hthan welcome to come whenever you guys want.
- Thank you.
[light piano music]
♪ ♪
- Hi, guys. \hI’m back!
- How was it? - It was fun.
I dropped them off \h\hat the airport.
- That was pretty quick. \h- Yeah, that was fast.
- Did you have fun? \h\h\h- I had fun.
\h\h\h\h\hI had a lot of fun. I know they had a lot of fun.
\hThey definitely wanna come back.
- When he hugged me goodbye, he squeezed me really hard.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Aww. - My boyfriend was just like,
"Don’t let the anger you have for your dad
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"stop you from knowing this kid.
\h\h"You grew up thinking that you were his sister,
so that’s your brother." \h\h\h\h- No, yeah, yeah.
\h- "Briana’s your sister, and now you have a brother,
and you have to embrace it."
[acoustic music]
♪ ♪
- It’s very different \h\h\h\h\hconnections
between Brittany and Kevin.
I grew up with my sister. \h\h\h\hI love my sister.
I’ve known her my whole life.
She’s a part of me.
Stella!
\h\h\hAt the end of the day, I just want her to be happy.
- Whoo!
both: Stella!
- But I also want her \h\h\h\hto know that
\h\h\hno matter what, she’s my big sister,
and she will always \hbe my big sister,
and nobody will take her place.
\h- ♪ But I’m here to figure it out ♪
♪ But did I fix it up? ♪
♪ I don’t wanna be \hrunning around ♪
♪ I’m here to figure it out ♪
♪ Figure it out ♪
♪ You wanna help me, \h\hbut I doubt it ♪
\h\h♪ I wanna know why you hurt me ♪
♪ Better now, better now ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ So I got no way ♪
♪ To make up this mess ♪
♪ It stands all around me ♪
♪ So I got no way \h\hto make a... ♪