- It was 10 years ago that you sat together
for your very first, "Teen Mom 2 Reunion".
- [audience applauding and cheering]
- Wow.
- I would like a part-time boyfriend or girlfriend.
- Do your kids say anything about dating at all?
Mine do.
I'm like, why do I need a boyfriend?
- Thank you. - No problem.
- BRIANA: For loving Stella. She loves you so much.
- That's my baby, man, like, I wanna be with her.
- [giggles] - BRIANA: It was bad,
I didn't think I was gonna walk into that.
- I took this [bleep] for sick for a long [bleep] time.
- Shut up! You're such a [bleep] liar, iar.
- PRODUCER: If you wanna just take--
Just--just a little bit.
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- Welcome to Part Two of the, "Teen Mom 2 Reunion",
I'm Nessa, here, with my co-host, Dr. Drew,
and please welcome, Leah.
- [audience applauding]
- DR. DREW: Leah, it's great to see you in person,
what is it like-- - Yes.
- What is it like to be back. - Thank you, it's great.
It's great to be back in person. - NESSA: Yes.
- DR. DREW: We are--we are so excited
that you're here, both--both Nessa and I, and--
'cuz we know this pandemic has been rough,
obviously, for all of us. But when someone in your home
has a compromised respiratory system,
like Leah's daughter, Ali,
it's difficult when COVID penetrates the family bubble,
causes a lot of dread and anxiety.
On top of that, Leah was facing a health scare of her own.
But let's refresh our memories
about these tense past few months for Leah.
- ♪ ♪
- Coming in hot!
- [gasps]
- Aleeah, oh my god.
I love you. - Love you, too.
- [applauding] - Don't lit your hair on fair.
- [Unintelligible] is absolutely horrible,
I tested positive,
I have no idea where I caught it.
- I actually was driving down the road the other day,
and just kinda scratching my chest,
and noticed that I have a lump in my breasts.
When I went for the ultrasound,
they found a tumor in my right breast.
As far as surgery, that scares the living [bleep] out of me.
- Yeah, sure.
- LEAH: The last biggest surgery I had,
they prescribed me prescription pain medication
that I became addicted to.
I'm super big on women's health, I have three daughters.
- Right. - And I do openly
talk about that.
Most of the time, I don't, like,
have anyone, and I was so scared
because my only goal is to give them a,
like, really give them a life that I didn't have.
- Absolutely.
- Ali got a new wheelchair, finally.
- [squeals] Are you excited?
- Yeah. - I'll join you, ha, ha, ha, ha.
- ALEEAH: That is her way of life,
and it gives her the same mobility as me.
As her sister, I'm just so happy for her.
- LEAH: I try to treat each of my kids equally,
but they require their own undivided attention.
They're not the same,
and I don't know, sometimes I feel like [bleep],
because I don't know, um,
and I just pray that I'm doing it in a way
that they all feel like they're loved.
- [audience applauding]
- Hm. - Hm.
- Leah, how you feeling after seeing that right now?
- I think I'm doing-- I'm proud of myself.
- NESSA: Hm. - I think I'm a good mom.
I think I'm doing the best that I can for them,
and leading them the way I feel is right.
- NESSA: I was very worried about you,
but, obviously, you were so relieved
that you didn't need to get surgery.
In general, Leah,
were you just doing any kind of testing on your own,
like, in the shower?
- I was not doing any self examines.
- Okay.
- Prior...to discovering that--that the lump.
- NESSA: Right. - And now I do. Now I do,
and I definitely wanted to educate my daughters on that,
being pre-teens. - NESSA: Right.
- I want them-- - NESSA: Right of course.
- Yeah.
- DR. DREW: Quick thing about Ali's disorder,
her muscular dystrophy. - LEAH: Mm-hm.
- Uh, I caught that the doctor was changing her prognosis abit.
Uh, because they now have a bigger cohort
with her rare genetic specific problem, right?
- Yes. - That was--
- I have so much good news about this--
- That was-- - I just partnered--
With a nonprofit organization,
and sent her muscle biopsy from 2012
to OSU, Ohio State University...
guys this has been one hell-- hell of 12 years [sniffling]
for treatment and a cure.
Had I stopped looking for a diagnosis,
I would never be to this point were 12 years into it,
we're finding a cure in research,
and don't tell me [bleep] science isn't real
'cuz that's my daughter's livelihood.
- DR. DREW: Alot of my patients have stepped forward like you,
and been looking into these things,
and they are--there is-- we're on the verge
of really serious advances in that area.
- LEAH: Yes.
- Let's say-- let's say that didn't happen,
in spite of the treatment, her prognosis changed markedly.
- LEAH: It did. - Markedly.
I--I got so excited when I saw that.
She--she can live a normal lifespan with this thing,
it's just she'll have to deal with it.
- It is-- - Maybe.
- Yeah. - And that--
but that's a huge deal. - NESSA: That's big.
- It is. - DR. DREW: Huge, huge deal.
Well, you've been very open for quite sometime
about your Opioid use disorder, and, you were late getting here,
and you're leaving right away. - LEAH: I know.
- That has something to do with all of this, doesn't it?
- LEAH: I was subpoenaed to testify
in a case against the doctor
that was involved in over-prescribing medication,
which was exactly...
what led to me becoming dependent on the medication
that I was prescribed. - DR. DREW: Well, thank you
for always bringing it up, and being honest about it,
and continue, please, to speak out about it
It's killing an--an inordinate number of Americans.
- LEAH: Mm-hm. Scary.
- DR. DREW: Scary.
- One of the moments that really stood out to me
was seeing how happy Ali was when Jeremy came home
to surprise her for her birthday.
How did that make you feel seeing that?
- Oh, I cried. I cried, um, just because,
I think, where he is absent alot of the time,
I feel like she wants that relationship--
that relationship with him even more.
- Are--are we laying the blame at Jeremy's feet,
or are we just saying his work is so much
that he can't really break away to do it?
- LEAH: Mm... - DR. DREW: Okay.
- I think he could definitely call more.
- DR. DREW: Okay, okay.
- I think he could definitely Face time more.
- NESSA: Well, Corey and the girls couldn't make it here
for the reunion,
but they are standing by on video chat,
let's welcome Corey, as well as Ali, Aleeah, and Addie.
- [audience applauding]
- Hey, everyone.
- Hi, ladies.
- How are you? - UNISON: Good.
- Aleeah, do you prefer
that we not call you Gracey any longer,
is that what I'm hearing? - ALEEAH: Yes.
Because every time I go out in public,
people start calling me Gracey, and not Aleeah.
- You know, I was telling your mom
that that's a very mature position to take.
- Yep. - DR. DREW: Yep [chuckles].
- Yep. - She--she gets it.
- NESSA: Oh yeah. - [chuckles]
- NESSA: Now, Addie,
how did you like your rainbow birthday party?
- LEAH: Don't tell her unicorns are not real, ever!
- I know unicorns are real, so I'm on your team.
Well, Corey, you're on here as well, how are you?
- I'm good, how are you? - Great.
How's Miranda doing?
- She's doing good.
- NESSA: Good, and how's Remy? - She's--she's--she's Remy,
she's [chuckles] she's a wild thing.
- NESSA: Ali and Aleeah,
so we had a chance to see some of your dance moves
in the Zoom birthday party,
okay, so I need everyone to be honest,
who's the best dancer out of everyone,
Ali, Aleeah, Addie, or mommy? We'll throw mom in this.
- DR. DREW: [chuckles] - ALEEAH: Addie.
- I was the best dancer at that dance party.
- [laughs]
- It was me, it was me, mom.
- NESSA: Well, let's not leave Corey out,
Corey, how are your dance moves?
- Well, they're not good. - NESSA: They're not good.
- [laughs] - NESSA: Okay.
- I don't dance, I don't do much dancing.
- [laughing] - DR. DREW: Of course.
Well, thank you, Ali, Aleeah, Addie, Corey, all of you,
and when we return, we'll talk to Jade.
- [audience applauding]
- JADE: I thought my mom
was just gonna let me lay there and die,
and no one was gonna know.
- CHRISTY: She's believing a bunch of [bleep] lies.
This is stupid, why did I even come here?
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- Welcome back, we're here with Jade.
- [audience applauding and cheering]
- DR. DREW: And this season was filled
with extreme highs and lows for Jade.
Let's watch her rollercoaster of a season.
- ♪ ♪
- I asked Sean if he could take Chloe,
and he told me no,
that he basically needed a break from both of us.
I got the house, and I need to start over,
and feel like I have a house that's just mine.
He's like, "I have a gift for you,
I really love you, and I want you to be my wife,
and I want to be with you."
- What do you think the status is now of your relationship?
- I don't know, we're both homies.
- So, has he brought it up since?
- I asked him the other day, um, to get it sized.
I mean, [bleep], I can wear it, I mean...
- [laughs]
- JADE: [chuckles] Like [bleep].
- Jade! No!
- JADE: For a different finger.
- Are you okay?
- [groaning] - CHRISTY: I know, I know.
- [groaning]
- We're gonna get you taken care of, I promise you.
- CHRISTY: If you're in that much pain,
I won't make you wait an hour, Jade,
I'll bring it right back.
- Christy, go.
- CHRISTY: 'K, go what?
- JADE: [crying] [Unintelligible], leave.
- Okay, I'm going right now.
- SEAN: Jade, is really stressed out,
I'm literally, the only one that haven't left her side.
- The whole situation with my parents
is you can't tell me
that they didn't look like they were on--on some [bleep].
I'm not having my kid around those kind of people anymore,
I don't give a [bleep] if you're family or not,
doesn't matter to me anymore.
Chloe!
She's been a little monster.
- SEAN: That's it, stop talking over me.
Stop talking over me! - Okay, stop
'cuz this isn't working, obviously.
- SEAN: Okay, well you are cutting me off,
and it's gonna work, okay-- - 'Cuz this is [bleep]
- She's not responding to this.
- A'ight, well then you be the--you be the [bleep] parent,
you [bleep] discipline them 'cuz I'm not doing it anymore.
- I thought he was doing drugs, 'cuz he's acting [bleep] weird.
He reminds me of my mom; the stuff he says and does,
and it makes me sick to my stomach.
- [audience applauding]
- So, what do you think seeing all that play out?
- It's just all a mess.
- DR. DREW: So, as far as bringing your mom out here
to chat with us,
is that something you're open to doing?
- No, I don't wanna feel like I'm in a position,
like, I--I just don't wanna deal with it right now.
And I think that's just what's healthy for me,
and there's alot that's happened,
and I don't think this is the time or the place
to, like, to deal with it right now.
- DR. DREW: Have you seen your mom and dad since the surgery?
- JADE: I think maybe once or twice, but...
- DR. DREW: How were those meetings?
- JADE: I mean, I didn't really talk to them much.
- She's seen me once. - JADE: So...
- She wouldn't even speak to me.
- JADE: It wasn't really like, uh, me and her meeting thing.
- DR. DREW: Are--are you going to reach out to them
at some point, you think?
- Right now, no. - Yeah.
- I'm just trying to do what's--
what I feel like is best for me right now.
- DR. DREW: I wanna go back to the prescription and pain meds.
Your parents were suppose to fill a prescription
for you at one point, and they didn't.
- Yeah, so while I was in surgery--
surgery was about three hours, I believe.
While I was in it,
the doctor gives, um, an appointed person,
whoever that may be, all your prescriptions.
I had to get, like, shots for blood clots.
So, I took a few shots every day
to make sure I didn't clot,
and my mom was in charge of getting all of that,
so by the time my surgery was over,
when I got picked up, I would have everything.
So, once I got to the house,
I'd be able to take all my medication,
and she just disappeared.
- CHRISTY: Oh my god! Dis-a [bleep] peared.
- JADE: And I remember laying there--
- Are you kidding me?
- Falling apart, crying, and I watched the sun go down.
- CHRISTY: She's believing a bunch of [bleep] lies.
- JADE: And I was like, "She's never coming back."
I thought my mom was just gonna let me lay there and die,
and no one was gonna know.
- DR. DREW: Those words, 'mother' and 'leave me to die',
don't normally... come out of someone's mouth.
- JADE: Yeah, it was-- - DR. DREW: That's profound.
- Definitely scary. - That's profound.
- JADE: I mean, it's been heart wrenching--
- DR. DREW: I know, it is. - Everyday, I miss my mom.
- I know. - Mm.
- I wanna talk to my mom, I'm sorry.
- DR. DREW: No, it's quite all right,
and it's quite understandable.
- JADE: I just--I miss my mom.
I just want her to be better,
and I can't continue to watch her,
like, deplete and destroy herself,
I can't sit back and watch it anymore.
- CHRISTY: I'm sick of being portrayed
like I'm some [bleep] dope fiend or something.
- Yeah, I think I'm just trying to, I guess, do the, like,
the tough love, like,
"Hey, you know, you've hurt me so much--"
- She don't want to have nothing to do with me.
- No. - But--
- Some times they receive the message,
you--you may be doing-- giving her a great gift.
You may be. - Yeah.
- CHRISTY: This is stupid, why did I even come here?
This is dumb.
- DR. DREW: Well, we have to take a quick break.
We'll get Sean's perspective in all this.
We'll bring him out here to hear this thoughts on the proposal,
the breakup, and his fight with Jade's dad.
Don't go away, we'll be right back.
- [audience applauding and cheering]
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- And welcome back, we've been speaking with Jade,
and we are now joined by Sean.
- [audience applauding]
- DR. DREW: Hi, Sean.
I notice you've got some flowers.
- Yeah, I do.
- Well, what's this special occasion?
- Uh, just because she deserves it
every now and then, you know?
- JADE: Thank you. - You're welcome.
- I like them. - I love you.
- I appreciate that, that's really nice.
- DR. DREW: That's nice. - NESSA: That's sweet.
- Put them here.
- DR. DREW: Oh, pretty, but I'm a little confused,
at the end of the season, you were broken up.
And now, you're bringing flowers,
and you seem great.
What--how did we get from there to here?
- I don't know,
I think that--the-- like, the space, the therapy,
like, the communicating has been better.
- SEAN: That has helped alot. - And I--
- NESSA: The therapy or--? - Yeah.
- DR. DREW: Both, Both. - Both, both.
- SEAN: Really, yeah, for sure.
- DR. DREW: And I'm a little confused also
about the engagement status.
- SEAN: Oh, it wasn't really a proposal.
- Yeah. - Really?
- JADE: It--it-- - It wasn't.
- DR. DREW: You didn't want an answer?
- Well, I mean, it's not that I didn't want an answer--
I wasn't trying to pressure one out of her.
- DR. DREW: Okay. - NESSA: Of course.
- It was more of a, she didn't know how I felt,
so I had to show her.
- DR. DREW: But, Sean, do you think you guys will get married
in the future?
- Yeah, I feel like we could
if that's something she wanted to do
'cuz in the end, it's all up to her.
- DR. DREW: You kinda-- you kinda had a reaction.
I'm curious what that was.
- Uh, I did--I'm just, like, I don't know.
I feel like there's so much pressure on people,
like, "What are you gonna do?"
And, like, "Do you wanna do this?"
Or like-- And then, like,
the whole ring thing, everyone's, like, explain,
what the [bleep] is that about?
Explain, and you're like, "I don't know."
- DR. DREW: Sean, the ring, we saw you on the show sell it.
She didn't know about the sale.
- SEAN: No, she didn't know that.
- DR. DREW: It was on-- it was on the show.
- SEAN: I was really mad,
like, having that in my possession
was just a constant reminder of why I was mad.
- DR. DREW: Yeah. - You know, so...
- DR. DREW: Got it. - I just got rid of it.
- DR. DREW: Um, Sean, I wanna talk about the plastic surgery,
so the--the--the post-op was a mess,
uh, how--how do you think--
- It was a nightmare for everybody.
- Yeah, I--we saw it, it was breathtaking.
- Oh! - SEAN: I did my best.
- JADE: Yeah, well, my mom--
Was a surgical nurse, so my mom--
Understands, it-- that's what threw me for a loop
because I thought for sure someone being medically trained
that she been in surgery,
that she would be, like, on top of it.
No, it was, like, the whole entire opposite.
When we got there,
it was almost like, I begged her to come,
and she was there, and just annoyed.
She was there for three days,
and was like, "I'm ready to [bleep] go,
I got [bleep] that I gotta do. You need to buy me a flight,
I got--I gotta go pay my rent, or I'm getting evicted."
"I got [bleep] that I gotta do,"
so, it was just all-- it was all garbage.
- NESSA: So, Sean, we didn't see
what happened between you and Corey on camera.
- Nobody did. - NESSA: It was a fight, right?
- Yeah, well, kind of. It was more of me defending
'cuz I didn't attack him, he attacked me.
- NESSA: Okay. - But...
- I think he said, you said something about him--
them being [bleep], or them being lazy,
or something. - Yeah.
- In regards to the care of--of--
- Yeah. - Yeah, so, yeah, take us--
- Yeah. - He didn't like what I said--
So, he just came at me, and all I did was defend myself.
I put him on the ground, and I walked away.
'Cuz my daughter was right there,
I didn't wanna keep fighting in front of my daughter.
- JADE: It was like, being in the worst,
most stressful situation ever,
and I just felt like everyone around me
was just doing a [bleep] job of being supportive.
Like, I'm, like, no one should be fighting or arguing.
Like, this stuff can be handled at a later time,
you--you know what I mean?
It's mature, grown adults, like, genuinely care, you say,
we're not gonna do this
because, so and so just had surgery.
And I'm like, that was a situation where all of that--
it just shouldn't have happened.
You should have been, like, we're not gonna do this.
At the end of the day, this is my life,
so I gotta do what's best for me and what's best for Chloe.
- Yep. That's most important.
- Mm, mm-hm.
When we come back, we'll welcome Christy,
and hopefully Jade and Sean will also join us.
You'll have to see what happens.
- [audience applauding]
- I'm not--I'm not going on stage with them.
- DR. DREW: You're not gonna be in the same room with them?
- JADE: No, I'm not, I've already told them that,
so...
- ♪ ♪
- Jade, we're about to go in,
and talk to your mom, Christy, okay?
Would you be willing to stay here,
and see what she has to say? - Um...
- It could be important information for you.
- Yeah. - Okay?
- Okay.
- Okay, I'm gonna go talk to her, okay?
All right.
- ♪ ♪
- Oh god this is...
- DR. DREW: Hey there.
Okay.
- I don't wanna be taped right now.
- DR. DREW: Christy, here you some more Kleenex.
- I just wanna get myself together.
- DR. DREW: Here you are. There you go, sorry.
- CHRISTY: This television has ruined my family, completely.
I so regret doing this [sniffing].
- You okay? - No, not really.
- DR. DREW: Okay.
How long has it been since you and Jade seen each other?
- CHRISTY: Uh, Miami, except for Friday, last Friday.
I just showed up at her house, and waited until she got home
'cuz I can't see her, I can't see Chloe.
- DR. DREW: You don't see Chloe right now?
- Mm-mm.
- Hm, is--is the pain just that you miss them?
- CHRISTY: That Jade's hurt.
I hate that she thinks that I would not want to help her,
or that I would disappear,
and not go get her pain medicine.
- What--what happened?
- CHRISTY: In Miami, I don't-- there's nowhere, like,
we went to about 12 pharmacies,
nobody had the pain medicine anywhere,
and she didn't believe me.
I'm, like, why would I disappear and leave my daughter, you know,
like, in excruciating pain? - She--she wonder--
- CHRISTY: And she thinks I was out shopping.
- She--she wondered why you didn't do the errand
during the surgery.
- I didn't have a prescription then.
- DR. DREW: He didn't call it in anywhere?
- CHRISTY: No, you can't--
no, you can't call them in, evidently, in Miami.
- DR. DREW: I'm a little--little confused about the prescription.
It--it looks like on the season
that they give you the prescription before the surgery.
- CHRISTY: Mm-mm, no, they do not.
- DR. DREW: After, after?
- Yes, after.
- Did they give you anything to help her before hand,
or any of the low [unintelligible].
- CHRISTY: Oh, you know what?
When we-- they may have gave me--
I don't remember.
- This bull [bleep].
- DR. DREW: Have you tried to apologize to Jade?
- CHRISTY: I mean...Jade doesn't know what actually went on,
she knows-- - It kinda--
it kind of doesn't matter, though, you know?
- CHRISTY: It doesn't.
- DR. DREW: I want--want you to feel--
- I'm sorry that Jade feels the way that she feels.
I'm sorry that she's hurt, I'm sorry--
That she's, you know, had to go through any--
any of that torment.
- And--and that you were the source of some of that.
- CHRISTY: Yeah, I mean,
but I don't understand why anybody would think
that I would leave her there to be in that kind of pain.
- Because you did.
But I'm saying, no, listen, I'm--I'm--I'm not--
- I feel attacked all the time-- - Yeah, I know.
- Every time that you-- I'm on here.
- DR. DREW: Yeah, I know.
And I'm not-- that's not my intention.
My intention is to get some sort of acceptance, right?
Some of that means, you have to realize
that that chaos and all that stuff,
that whatever was going on was not good for Jade.
And it's put her in a position
to pull back and protect herself.
I mean, she's really doing-- she's doing amazing.
- She looks so beautiful, she-- - DR. DREW: She's doing amazing,
and you should just think about that,
and one day, hopefully, you'll be a part of that.
- CHRISTY: But, as you're not a mom, so--
- DR. DREW: I know. - As a mom...
- DR. DREW: I get that it's-- it's harsh, I get it.
- CHRISTY: Oh, do you?
But I thought I was doing right by, like, move--
like, giving her some space.
And I should've, like, took charge of the situation,
and put them out, and took care of her.
Yeah, I'm sorry for that. - I'd stay focused on that.
- CHRISTY: But I thought, at the time,
I was doing what maybe she wanted.
- DR. DREW: I think it was a mistake.
- Me too.
- Because she had concerns about reliability,
this sort of rocked all that. She had lots of questions,
hopefully you straightened some of that out now.
- CHRISTY: I mean, if she thinks I'm undependable,
I am still trying to work on my [unintelligible].
I hate it about myself,
like, that's the one thing I could change,
I would change.
- DR. DREW: I just wanna just two again,
as much as you can to think positively,
that you're taking a bullet, so your daughter can grow,
just try, try to think that way.
Try to think that way, I know it's hard, and I--
- I don't think it's growth
when you have to cut, cancel people out of your life.
- DR. DREW: For--for-- for a moment, you know?
- CHRISTY: But, I mean, I can't get these moments back.
What if I went out, and got killed by a--a drunk driver,
like, walked across the street, got killed, then what?
It's, like--
- Just for--for again, for keeping this positive
'cuz I think that's where there's real potential here.
Say again, and you can look down the barrel of the camera,
how much you love your daughter so she hears you.
- [sniffling] I love you, Jade. She--I just hope she knows that.
That I--
- DR. DREW: Well, now, maybe she does.
- [crying]
This is killing me.
I'm done. - DR. DREW: We'll--we'll finish.
- NESSA: Well, Christy,
we appreciate you for being here today,
I know it wasn't easy.
Bye, Christy.
- DR. DREW: That was intense, right?
- NESSA: Mm-hm, yeah.
- DR. DREW: Well, I'm gonna go back and see how Jade's doing,
I think she stayed, and watched the whole thing.
- Okay. - Okay?
- Mm-hm.
- ♪ ♪
- So, how are you?
- I'm okay. - What'd you think?
- I thought it was alot of what I expected it to be,
and I think with therapy,
I've learned alot about that situation,
and what I'd seen.
And I think this is so important for people to know is that,
I do love her and care about her.
But, what really bothers me is that,
well, I'm sorry that she thinks that,
or I'm sorry that maybe she feels that.
It's not, I'm sorry that I made you feel like that.
And then, it's the guilt.
When I don't wanna give in to her,
it's, oh, well, what is I died tomorrow,
how would you feel then?
And then you start going into the manipulation.
- Alot of that is addict stuff, right?
- Yes, it's-- - A--alot--
- Alot of-- - And--
- Mentally and behavior, and it's--
- Long standing.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- It's been so long that behavior's gone on for so long.
- And, but her pain is real. - It's normalized.
- Her pain is real.
- Right, and I'm not downplaying how she feels--
I know she must be hurting. - Yeah.
- And I'm, like, don't you think a child not having their mother
isn't hurting? Imagine--
All the times that I've been without her.
I've been in foster care, and all I wanted was my mom.
I still want my mom, but I'm, like, it's not healthy.
- DR. DREW: This has been an important reunion for you.
I hope people see what you're talking about
'cuz you're speaking the truth.
We'll--we'll get together again in a few months,
and we'll see whether she did anything or not.
There's alot more show coming up, so don't go away.
- [audience applauding and cheering]
- This is the first year of our life together
since we've had a daughter
that we seem to have something figured the [bleep] out.
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- Welcome back to the, "Teen Mom 2 Reunion",
joining us once again on video chat is the newest member
of the TM2 family, Ashley.
- [audience applauding] - DR. DREW: Well, Ashley,
congratulations on the engagement,
how does it feel? - Mm, it feels like a wife.
- [laughing]
- NESSA: So, let's talk a little bit
because I was hoping to see you in person,
I really wanted to see the ring, to be honest.
- Thank you, Nessa. - NESSA: Yes [laughing].
Now, in the season,
we saw that you planned, you know,
this beautiful celebration, I surprise party for Bar,
you know; unfortunately, his mom spoiled the surprise for him,
have you forgiven her for that? - I have, you know,
I think when I called her, and invited her to the party,
she just wasn't in the space to accept that,
for whatever reason,
and given the history, I guess I understand.
But, you know what,
I think I need to stop giving surprise parties, Nessa.
- [laughing] - Because...
- Well, Ashley, if it's okay with you,
we wanna bring out your fiance, please welcome, Bar.
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- Hey, baby.
- Hey, Bar, it's nice to see you.
- Hi, how you doing? - Good, good.
- Nice to see you, too.
- DR. DREW: All right, you guys had this graduation party
for Ashley's graduation, Ashley, tell us about that.
- I wanted to have a throw back themed party,
throw back to whatever year you felt your sexiest.
Um, some people threw back to the 70's, to 2000's,
and 90's.
- DR. DREW: And what era was that for you?
- ASHLEY: I would say the early 2000's.
- And, Bar, what'd you pick?
- BAR: My shirt took it back a little bit farther
'cuz the shirt I had,
it was--it was--it was the yellow, red, green,
those type of colors. - ASHLEY: Could've been 80's.
- BAR: Yeah, it could have been, like, 80's, early 90's kind of.
- DR. DREW: And did--did the evening go as planned,
or did something--did something that happen
affect your ability to travel,
is that why you're not here today?
- ASHLEY: No, the party was good,
everything went as planned, um, that was a whole
separate situation. - Yeah.
- ASHLEY: But the party itself was amazing.
- DR. DREW: I wanna ask about--
did you respond to all the tabloids--
- Nah, tell them to stop. - Okay.
- We spoke about this, don't--come on, bro.
- Okay, let it go, let's move on.
- Anything beyond that, it's--it--you're--
am I right, your attorneys advised you,
let's not talk about?
- BAR: I don't understand the basis of these questions.
All right, come on, y'all. - Yeah.
- Get it together. - Yeah.
- If you don't feel comfortable...
- BAR: Yeah, right, Dr. Drew,
don't let them start making you bull [bleep], buddy.
- [chuckles]
- You know; unfortunately, you feel like some times,
you know, certain people in certain positions
don't want you there, so... It's unfortunate.
- Well, not us. - Well, not us.
- Yeah. - Right.
- Nah, I know not you guys.
- NESSA: Ashley, how long have you and Bar been together,
or, one: have known each other,
then, how long have you guys been together?
- ASHLEY: We have been together on and off for six years.
I can't give you--
I mean, we don't count, you know, time apart
'cuz we don't spend no time apart, so...[chuckles].
- Now, despite having a turbulent past
on, "Young and Pregnant",
this season, we saw a happier side
of Ashley and Bar's relationship.
He finally popped the question,
and the two of them are now planning their wedding.
The good times are that much sweeter
knowing how hard you two struggled,
so let's take a look back at Ashley's journey this season.
- ♪ ♪
- BAR: I would like to ask you...
will you marry me? - Mm-hm.
Yeah.
- ♪ Don't be alone tonight ♪
- [laughing]
- BAR: I got my GED. - I'm so proud of you, babe.
- Thank you.
- BAR: So, I gotta go to court tomorrow,
I mean, it's just for a DUI that I got.
- Don't say, just for a DUI.
I experienced the most racism I've ever experienced.
I've never had so many white people telling me
they would hang me if they saw me.
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- Wow, powerful season,
what comes up for you guys when you're watching that?
- Happiness, I ain't gon' lie,
I'm gon' be honest, most of it is happiness.
I can say this is probably the first season
where it's been through and through
from beginning to end, like, good.
- Well, this is the first year of our life together
since we've had a daughter
that we seem to have something figured the [bleep] out.
- Right. - [laughs]
- NESSA: Now, Bar, can you explain a little bit more,
what exactly your monitor was used for.
- BAR: It was to make sure that I didn't consume alcohol while--
I was, uh, going throughout the, uh--
while I was battling the case that I--
'cuz I was actually fighting it, initially,
but it ended up just not working out in my favor
'cuz it's my word against the police.
But, so, uh, it was pretty much the entire time
that I was fighting the case, I had to keep it on
because they wanted to make sure
that I didn't access any alcohol,
which I was pissed off about in the very beginning,
but it--it worked for the best. - Right.
- 'Cuz, at the end of the day, honestly,
I did--I do have an addiction, so it's--it--it worked out
to help me get as far away from it as I could, so...
- NESSA: Do you feel that it's helped you
cut down on your drinking? - A hundred percent,
I'm not gonna lie,
there was a point where I was drinking every single day.
I--I--I--I realized that I drink, I use to drink
to get away from everything that I dealt with in my life
that wasn't even publicized all the time,
but, uh, it was just a long-- it was a long battle.
- And Bar,
I assume you're talking about some traumatic experiences,
maybe growing up or something. Have you--have you ever had,
or thought about having trauma therapy?
- Yeah, I'm gone to therapy,
I've--I've, you know, I've talked to them.
I've been diagnosed with a few things, so...
I understand exactly what is going on.
It's--it's--I mean, of course, I plan on going to therapy
'cuz, you know, certain stuff, it's a life long battle,
so you wanna make sure that you are--.
If you are having any--any mental health issues whatsoever,
don't walk away from it, don't undermine it,
don't think it's just something small 'cuz it's not,
and at any moment, it could turn into something a lot worse
than what you think it could be, so...
I'm still actively going to therapy, um--
- We all in therapy in my house.
- Yeah, so, I'm--I'm-- I'm gonna stay in it,
and I actually plan on going to a little bit more of it
to try to understand quite a few more things about myself.
- Thank you, Bar, for saying that.
Well done, my friend. - Yeah.
- DR. DREW: Well done.
- Now, Bar, you told Ashley just before her graduation party
that you needed to serve two weeks in jail for the DUI,
give us an update on that,
do you still need to serve that time?
- Yeah, I gotta, uh, I gotta turn myself in, in a couple days
for it so [chuckles]. Yeah, I do.
- It's not funny.
- BAR:I'm sorry, it's not funny, let me not laugh at it
because it's not funny, it's serious.
- I definitely feel like, um, this is just the last chapter,
this is a consequence to an action
that happened almost, what, now two years ago?
Um, and, so, I want it to be over,
but I also don't want it to be taken lightly
because, um, drinking and driving,
that's--that's-- that's not cute, I don't--
- It's not. - I don't stand for that,
and, um, I don't want anyone to see this,
and think that that's just ha, ha, ha,
like, it's not, it's very serious.
- DR. DREW: Right. - NESSA: Well, Ashley and Bar,
they're gonna be sticking around,
and when we get back,
we'll get the tea from Ashley's mom, T.
- [audience applauding]
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- And we are back, still speaking with Ashley and Bar.
- [audience applauding and cheering]
- NESSA: Well, listen,
there's someone else we'd like to bring into the conversation,
also on video chat, please welcome, Ashley's mom, T.
- [audience applauding] - NESSA: Hey, T.
- DR. DREW: Hey, there. - Hey, mom, you look cute.
- NESSA: Now, T, when we were watching on the show,
we saw how excited you were when Ashley got proposed to,
and you were so happy for her, so how are you feeling now
about Ashley and Bar getting married?
- I think for us, you know, now, it's kinda just overrated,
we're just--we're just get it over with and get done,
we're tired of hearing about it.
- And--and Bar, I thought it was nice for you to, you know,
tell T that you were planning to ask Ashley to marry you,
why was that important?
- What do you mean, why is that important, Dr. Drew?
You know how excited I was? - Yeah.
- [laughing] - I bet.
- You gotta think, not too long before that,
I had seen--I had her mom had showed me her ring,
and I'm not gonna lie, Ted, her ring is like--
- My mom's ring-- - BAR: It's like, yes, it's--
- ASHLEY: Huge. - BAR: Yeah, come on now.
- [laughing]
- BAR: Yeah, so--so when I got it,
I had sent her a D on Instagram.
And I, uh, I had got her number and Face timed her,
and showed it to her,
and I was hella excited [chuckles].
- DR. DREW: It sounds like you can't think of it any other way
than including you in it,
but it's pretty--it's pretty cool that he is--
thinks of you that way.
- Ah, and it's a blessing to be honored that way.
- DR. DREW: How is T as a grandma to Holly?
- Oh, gosh, I couldn't draw up a better grandmother.
- BAR: If she didn't help out
for all of the time that she did, for real.
- Hundred percent. - 'Cuz there was
a bunch of times that even I--I stepped
back in a way, you know? Because I wasn't--
- Don't cry, mom, you know I have on lashes--
- I wasn't--man [chuckles]. - What are you doing?
- T: Holly was my dream, and I got it.
My dream came true.
- [doorbell rings]
- MAN: Hello? - I got a dream--
somebody's knocking at my door.
- [laughing]
- T: Hi, I don't know who you are,
but not right now, okay? Have a good day.
- [laughing]
- DR. DREW: Wonderful. - I love seeing this.
- Yeah. - Such beautiful energy.
- I agree.
- NESSA: Now, let's talk about a very important conversation
you had on race and racism.
Ashley, can you remind the audience
about what you shared in the show
about your experience with race growing up.
- Um, you know, I was very sheltered growing up,
I was--I was thankful to be very privileged.
Um, and, so, I don't think I really saw a lot of racism,
only because I had the money, money talks,
people were tolerate of me.
Um, it wasn't until I kinda got on this platform
that I got to really see how deep it goes,
and how real it is. Um, and I do get a lot of--
we both get a lot of racists messages and texts,
and comments,
and, um, you know, it--it definitely opened my eyes
to something that I was kind of, um, naive to.
Maybe I thought, you know, we were just so far from it,
how can anybody be racist,
you know, but, that's not the case?
- Now, T, can you share a little bit
of what you tried to do to protect her?
- T: Looking back, I don't even know if I--if we was protecting,
I think it was more of us just trying to blend in.
And, you know, we had the opportunity
to put Ashley in, you know, um, an all white school,
and I don't know if I really protected her,
maybe I did more damage by not being honest with her.
- NESSA: Mm.
Well, Ashley, what did it do to you, emotionally,
when you received hateful, racist messages
after joining TM2?
- ASHLEY: At first, it was very sad,
it was very hard to deal with,
especially because people also bring my daughter into,
and say racist things as it pertains to my daughter.
Um, but, as I've grown,
and as I've been on this show, you know, more and more,
and kind of been having this larger platform more,
I just realized that people have that hate in their heart,
and that's the burden for them to carry.
Because I'm black, and I'm gonna be black,
and so, you know, if you don't like that--
- 'Til I bite the dust, I'm gon' be black.
- You can kiss the new girls, baby.
- [laughing] - DR. DREW: Well, thank you guys
for speaking so openly about these important topics.
Ashley, Bar, we wish you the best,
uh, enjoy planning the wedding,
enjoy Holly, enjoy your lives together.
- NESSA: Coming up, Ashley will reconnect
with her former, "Young and Pregnant" cast mates,
meet the newest mom,
and get a preview of the upcoming season.
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- I had a lot going on at the time.
- I'd just had a baby, my hormones were raging.
- Things were said that didn't need to be said at all.
- ♪ ♪
- [audience applauding]
- And welcome back to the, "Teen Mom 2 Reunion",
we are here, once again, with Ashley.
- [audience applauding]
- And, from, "Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant", Kayla.
- [audience applauding]
- DR. DREW: And Kayla, it has been--
- Hi, baby. - Almost--
[chuckles] So, you guys still friends--
- Yes. - Communicating?
Well, we haven't seen you in a couple of years,
but last time we were all together,
there was a-- something happened,
there was a conflict.
- I'm not gonna play this [bleep] bull [bleep] game.
- KAYLA: What the [bleep] did I do to you?
- ASHLEY: Nothing, bitch, that's the point.
- [audience groaning]
- ASHLEY: I will beat the dog [bleep] out of you.
- I'd love to hear each of your point of views
on--on what happened, Ashley, you first.
- Um, I had alot going on at the time,
and I think it was just caught up in the atmosphere,
words got heated,
and things were said that didn't necessarily--
didn't need to be said at all, you know.
And, so, after that,
after everything had kind of played out,
Kayla and I spoke privately,
and, um, I apologized for some things that I said,
and she said her peace, and, you know, we decided
that there's only a few girls in the world
that know what it's like to learn to be a mom on TV.
And Kayla has been a very good friend to me every since.
- KAYLA: Honestly, she's summed it perfectly.
I'd just had a baby, my hormones were raging.
I think it was alot of miscommunication.
We both apologized, and we've been great.
We talk alot.
- DR. DREW: Well, things between Kayla and Annette
get a little heated early
in this season of, "Young and Pregnant."
Here is an exclusive sneak peek at that conflict.
- ♪ ♪
- Why you didn't call me,
and let me know that you got the things?
- Got the clothes? - Yeah, that's rude.
- Okay.
I mean, you got him something for--
that was his birthday gift, right,
he was three-years-old-- - ANNETTE: No.
- You got him some clothes, no? - No.
- KAYLA: Okay. - That wasn't his birthday gift.
- Okay, so he didn't get anything for his birthday, okay?
- Did you invite me to his party?
- KAYLA: No, you haven't been around.
- Okay. - You don't reach out.
- ANNETTE: I have.
- This is the first time you've called me in two years.
- 'cuz you said you wanted to be left alone.
Bitch, you always make it seem like you bad--
- Bitch, don't call me a bitch. Don't call me a [bleep] bitch.
Don't call me a bitch. What you gon' do, hit me?
Real classy, real [bleep] classy.
- ANNETTE: Yeah, 'cuz I'm 'bout sick--
- Real [bleep] classy. - ANNETTE: Yeah.
- That's why you won't ever see Izaiah.
You know what, you bought him some clothes,
so here's the [bleep] money. - Bitch!
- Take it. Hit me then.
Hit me then,
I'm not gon' hit a grown ass woman,
and go and get in trouble, [bleep] that.
- You right, you right.
- KAYLA: Gon' and [bleep], gon and [bleep],
keep, oh, rip up the money, okay.
- KAYLA: And I don't wanna hear nothing
about those cheap ass clothes, nothing about 'em.
- Think about that,
'bout throwing some more money at somebody.
- Bye.
- [audience applauding] - You're laughing.
- Mm-hm, yeah, 'cuz it's--it's funny now,
it wasn't funny at the time, it's funny now.
Annette's very toxic,
and I think Stephen's kind of the way he is;
unfortunately, because of how he was raised.
And I don't think that toxicity needs to be around Izaiah.
- DR. DREW: Hm. - Wow.
- DR. DREW: Well, we have an exclusive preview
of the upcoming season of, "Young and Pregnant",
let's take a look.
- FEMALE NARRATOR: Last season
on, "Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant'.
- That's your pee-pee. - [screams]
- NARRATOR: We work through the highs and lows
that come with being young mothers.
- UNISON: Yes, you big brother.
- NARRATOR: But, becoming moms forced us to grow up.
- When I was pregnant, I didn't think about it,
I was just thinking about what I wanna do now.
- If you stay here, we're done.
- You're a piece of [bleep].
- BRIANNA: And it just sucks, I feel, like, I'm failing.
- KAYLA: I had, like, a plan for my life,
but it just didn't go that way at all.
- NARRATOR: Now, as we enter another year of parenthood,
we'll catch up with another young mom
you met last year on, "16 and Pregnant".
- I gave you the benefit of the [bleep] doubt.
Every single time you cheated on me,
every single time you lied to me.
- NARRATOR: And later, we'll meet
our newest young mom, Kayla.
- MAN: We not together, then why-- then why are you so--
- KAYLA: Because we were still having sex.
We were-- - MAN: But, why you gotta--
- Still playing family.
- NARRATOR: We're taking control.
- Moving out will really help our relationship.
- MYLO: I was this close to closing these wounds,
and you talking about opening 'em.
- All right, it's no need for me to keep talking to you then.
- Yeah, it 's not.
- MAN: It's a big chance of him being mine.
- MOM: You had sex with him the same month as Stephan,
that he was conceived? - Yes.
- I 'bout to pop off again, dude.
- I don't care, you ain't doing that [bleep].
- GIRL: She locked me out, and was holding my kid hostage,
I don't see myself ever living there again.
- If you walk away,
that mean you don't give a [bleep].
- [audience applauding]
- That was alot going on there. - Oh, boy.
- NESSA: The new season of, "Young and Pregnant"
is coming soon,
so make sure you look out for it.
And with that,
we've reached the end of the, "Teen Mom 2 Reunion".
Thanks again to the entire cast and crew
for another unforgettable season.
- And let's end on a positive note.
Young people are using contraception more
and more consistently.
This has led to a drop in teen pregnancy,
a drop in abortion, a drop in birth rates.
Birth control gives you the power to decide your future.
Check out all the methods at bedsidder.org.
For Nessa and myself, thank you so much for watching,
we will see you next season.
- [audience cheering and applauding]
- ♪ ♪