- Call the police.
- Call the police? Go for it.
[police siren wailing]
- Hi everyone, I'm Christi Lukasiak
and on this episode of "Dance Moms Epic Showdowns."
- Out, get out.
Get out, get out, go. - You called me names.
- Every week we put the trash out.
Go.
- Then take yourself out,
'cause you're the biggest piece of trash there is.
- Police.
- Relive the moments that were so unhinged.
- You are nuts.
- Hey, hey, hey.
That the police had to step in.
- Call the police right now.
I have a psycho mother in our dressing room,
and she needs to go.
I've asked her to leave nicely.
- Get your finger out of my face.
Girls out the room.
Get off of me.
- [Christi] This is "Dance Moms Epic Showdowns:
Call 911."
- Minister Dawn was one of the show's first Dance Moms,
but she only lasted about as long
as her epic showdown with Abby.
- [Dawn] May I speak to you a minute?
- I wanna speak to you.
You don't throw my kid outta class.
I paid for class.
- I'm looking at every single kid out here, Abby.
They all look like children.
Isn't that crazy that children look like children?
- Minister Dawn was coming in hot.
She was about to find out what happens to moms
when they challenge Abby Lee Miller,
and trust me, it's never pretty.
- Yes, I am a minister.
Let's play the Bible game, Abby.
When Jesus saw things that were wrong, he went after it,
and I'll tell you what, you're not gonna do this to my kid.
- [Abby] Out of the room, out, out.
Reagan, goodbye.
Out, out.
- [Dawn] You're not throwing her out.
- [Abby] Oh, yes I am, and you with her.
Go. - No you're not.
- Yes, every week we put the trash out, go.
- Then take yourself out,
'cause you're the biggest piece of trash there is.
- Take your money, take your kid, take your socks.
Find another school.
- Does it not hit in your head that maybe you're wrong?
- No.
- Do you not get it?
- I don't get it.
I know I'm right.
- Why are you right?
- It's my building.
My name's on the front.
- So what?
You keep telling her how stupid she is.
- [Abby] She's not stupid.
She just can't read.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
- [laughing] So you're saying I'm stupid?
Well, are you?
[Dawn screaming]
- [Abby] Do you have your phone?
- Call the police?
Go for it.
- [Abby] I'm sorry, girls.
- [Dawn] Go for it.
- [Abby] There's a psycho in every batch.
- A psycho.
Yes, her name's Abigail Miller.
- Hi, I need police at 7123 Saltsburg.
I have a parent that's out of control.
Pardon?
She does not have weapons, just her mouth.
[police siren wailing]
- Minister Dawn learned the hard way that at the ALDC,
Abby thought she was God.
- Hey!
- Like all of us Dance Moms, Yolanda and Stacey
have always been quick to protect their kids.
- I don't wanna hear that Lily has advantages,
'cause Lily's the underdog.
- I didn't leave my career of 25 years
for her not to be dancing.
- And when Yolanda's daughter Elliana was chosen
for the Q dance over Stacey's daughter Lilli,
the claws came out.
- You're just a [bleep].
- At least I'm only one [bleep].
You're like three [bleep], all your different personalities.
- Oh wow.
- I gotta call you like, [bleep] one, two, three.
- [Christi] And later, when Yolanda accused
Stacey's daughter of bullying.
- [Elliana] Mom.
- Mom...
- [Christi] The drama went from zero to a hundred.
- Yolanda?
I swear I'm gonna kill somebody.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
- [Yolanda] Seriously? Are you serious?
- You stay away from me!
- I'm calling 911.
- [Yolanda] You do it.
- [Stacey] No you don't.
- You do it.
She just attacked me.
She literally went to my neck.
You are going to jail.
- Go away.
- Revel in it.
- [Christi] Yolanda avoided jail
with a half-hearted apology.
- I'm truly sorry for the way things went down.
- What went down?
- [Yolanda] Don't rehash the...
- No, I am.
I wanna know what you're apologizing for.
- I should have not pushed you back.
- You attacked me and put your hands around my neck.
- I take responsibility, and I am sorry for
what I've turned into, its effect on the team.
- No, she needs to apologize for attacking me.
- No, she, oh my God.
(all talking) She's apologizing.
- [Yolanda] Still can't hear what you said.
- When you say I pushed you back, that means
it was in self-defense. - I'm not playing this.
I'm done, goodbye. - You're done.
- But Stacey didn't buy it, and honestly I don't blame her.
- It is not my fault.
It is not my fault.
- Police. [dramatic music]
- Whenever Nationals approach, the tension at the ALDC
was at an all time high.
- This is horrible, this music.
What are you doing?
My God.
- [Christi] Just ask Sarah and her mom Michelle.
- I'm sorry.
I don't think Sarah's gonna be able to be in the routines.
- When Abby gave Sarah the boot for her poor performance
and her mom's antagonizing antics.
- So I got a text and it's from Studio 19.
Studio 19 is calling you out.
You're being ignorant.
- Get out, get out.
Get out, get out, go. - You called me names.
- Michelle lost her damn mind.
- It is not my fault.
I want my daughter to dance.
- [Christi] Her hallway meltdown was all it took
to put Abby on edge.
- See, you see, that is just Uniontown trash.
- I wasn't allowed.
It was in big red letters.
- [Christi] And we all know
what can happen when Abby feels threatened.
- Abby.
- You have to leave.
Police, my name is Abby Lee Miller.
I'm calling from Lancaster Mennonite School.
I'm in a dance competition and I have a psycho mother
and she needs to go.
I've asked her to leave nicely 20 times and she won't leave.
Mommy put her foot in her mouth.
So she cannot be associated any longer with the ALDC.
They're on their way.
[tense music]
[police siren wailing]
- It is not my fault.
It is not my fault.
- Michelle spiraled after Abby kicked her daughter
Sarah off the team.
- [Michelle] I want my daughter to dance.
- [Christi] But Abby wasn't about to allow
her hallway tantrum to disrupt rehearsal.
- Police.
[police siren wailing]
- [Dance Mom] Do we really want the police here?
- Oh, I, yes, I wanna be protected.
- Seriously? - Oh my gosh, what is happening?
- I made the phone call.
This woman, she needs to be out of this dressing room.
- I'm here to apologize.
I'm really calm.
- There's been chaos, screaming, yelling,
and she needs to go.
[Abby snickering]
- [Christi] As always, Abby got her way,
but she allowed Sarah to dance.
- Where does that leave Michelle?
Like right now, Sarah's here and Michelle's not allowed in.
- Right, because I can't have poison in my dressing room.
- Abby, that's your subjective opinion.
That is not.
- No, it's my company and I make the rules, Yolanda,
and I'm not gonna fight with some yahoo mother Yinzer
from Pittsburgh about her kid
'cause there's always another kid.
So wake up, smell the coffee burning and figure it out.
- [Christi] One thing we've all learned the hard way,
in Abby's mind, we are all replaceable.
- Toodles.
You are nuts.
[dramatic music]
- Abby's reputation for being as tough on us as she was
our kids was clearly no joke,
but the way she treated Kelly,
Paige and Brooke's mom, was simply beyond.
- Your child was the one I put all my eggs with.
- Yeah, but she got nowhere with you.
She got nowhere with you. - Years and years ago.
- [Christi] Paige and Brooke had been at the ALDC since
the very beginning, but Abby's loyalty was fading fast.
- Hi. Girls, you all know Kalani.
- [Dance Mom] Yes, that's right.
- This is her mother Kira.
- Hi.
- Say hello.
- Abby parading her dancers through the dressing room
just goes to show she's trying to psych out her own team.
Like, what kind of teacher does that?
- So moms, I've had auditions and I've seen
a lot of great talent.
So I think Kalani might be our right fit.
- As soon as Abby announced that she was shaking things up,
Kelly knew that it was her daughters
that were on the chopping block.
- Brooke, I gave you how many opportunities
last week to do something.
- [Christi] And like any protective mom,
that put Kelly on the defense.
- Well, maybe you should replace her.
[tense music]
I'm tired of Abby throwing it in my face every week
that she's gonna replace my kids.
Here, replace them.
- Brooke, is your mother speaking for you?
Do you not wanna dance?
I just want your mother to quit speaking for you.
You're 15 years old, grow the hell up.
- You know what?
You shut the hell up.
- See how she talks to me.
- Abby, if you are not happy with my kid
'cause she doesn't sit here and smart mouth you
and say something bad, we will leave.
- [Abby] That's fine.
- Here's your costumes.
Enjoy the dance.
Girls, let's go.
- Kelly, we don't want you to go.
The girls do, you guys don't wanna go.
- Well, obviously she wants someone
who has never danced here take both of my kids' place.
- No she doesn't.
The kids wanna dance.
[overlapping chatter] - No!
- That's not what she came here for.
- No, you said.
- Did you just sit here and say that my daughter
looks miserable, so maybe we should put Kalani in her place?
- No, I never said that.
- Yes, you most certainly did.
- No, I didn't, dingbat.
Listen, I said,
"Brooke, is your mother speaking for you?
"Do you want to be here?" - Get your finger
out of my face.
- [Parent] Girls, out the room.
Girls, out the room. [dancers and moms gasping]
- I had never, ever seen anything like this.
- Get off of me.
Get away from me. - Out the room, out the room.
Girls, out of the room!
- Who do you think you are?
- You are nuts.
- No, you're nuts.
- [Parent] All of you, out of the room.
- [Abby] She's crazy.
- No, I'm not crazy.
You're eating my face.
- Call the police right now.
- Go ahead.
You were coming at me.
- [Abby] Oh my.
- [Parent] I was not looking.
I was over this way.
That's ridiculous.
- You know what?
That's [bleep]. - Go in there...
- [Abby] Call the police.
[Abby crying]
- Girls, you all know Kalani.
- [Christi] The minute Abby rubbed
her new dancer in our faces.
- So moms, I think Kalani might be our right fit.
- It set off a chain of events
that changed the ALDC forever.
- No, I'm not crazy.
You're eating my face.
- [Parent] Girls, get outta the room.
Gotta get out the room.
- No, absolutely not.
Call the police right now.
- Go ahead.
You were coming at me.
- [Christi] We've all had our screaming matches with Abby,
but when things got physical,
we knew there was no turning back.
- Hi, my name is Abby Lee Miller and a woman just grabbed
and pulled my hair and scratched my face.
- In my face.
- She yanked my hair.
She scratched like she, I don't know.
It happened so fast.
There were no weapons, no.
- You need to leave now.
We'll get the rest of your stuff.
You need to leave now, trust me, now.
I'm gonna get your girls.
- Wait, what's going on?
- You need to go now.
You gotta go now.
- She's white, she has a black and gold dress on,
and she has short, like a haircut
that's like cool and trendy.
Like it's long in the front and short in the back.
[tense music]
- No. - [Officer] No.
- No, if it was like my knee or my foot, absolutely.
Kelly, you have done this to me and to my dance company
time and time again.
I am finished.
Just so all the moms know exactly what happened,
Kelly was arrested.
That's the truth.
- And the saga didn't end there.
Kelly was charged with assault,
but the charges were eventually dismissed.
She then shocked everyone by suing Abby for $5 million,
and that case was eventually settled,
but Kelly and her girls were never seen at the ALDC again.
- Love you.
- [Kyle] Love you too.
Bye. - Bye.
- [Producer] We're turning Miss Miller in.
- [Abby] It's over. [dramatic music]
- So while Abby was busy calling the cops on everyone else,
she was busy dealing with her own legal troubles.
- The court and the judge, they think I'm hiding money.
That's [bleep].
- [Christi] And then on July 12th, 2017,
a day that will live in infamy,
Abby Lee Miller reported to prison.
I'm sorry.
[Abby crying]
[Abby sighing]
[bleep]
Okay.
[car door slamming] Oh.
Wait, I'm panicked about the French onion dip.
I'm gonna freak out.
Do we know where the French onion dip is?
Dee said it was in here.
[cell phone ringing]
Hey, Kyle. - Hi.
Keep me in your prayers and tell your mom to light a candle.
- Okay.
- All right, love you.
Bye. - Bye.
- No cash?
[traffic zooming]
Yeah.
- [bleep].
Yeah.
[Abby crying]
- Well, it wasn't actually really over,
because Abby was out
after only eight months and right back at the ALDC.
- [Christi] The demands of dance life were taking a toll
on Abby's recovery from cancer.
- I don't think people realize just how difficult it is
for me to get up and get ready and get over
to that studio and teach every day.
- And it all came to a head at Nationals.
[audience applauding]
Although the audience welcomed Abby at Nationals
with open arms, not everyone was glad to see her.
[backup signal beeping]
- [Christi] To be told off by Tammy from Studio 19,
one of her biggest rivals, was not something Abby
was gonna stand for.
[mysterious music]
- Hi.
- What is going on?
This is Nationals, and now Abby's leaving.
- [Bryan] Okay.
[jackhammer hammering]
- We spent 16 weeks having Abby put the kids
through hell and back, especially about
who would get to dance at Nationals,
and then she's not there to watch 'em.
[lively music]
- Yeah.
- [Bryan] All right, let me go in there.
[tense music]
- [Christi] After dodging the "Dance Mom" crew for hours,
Abby was found in plain sight.
Nobody is going to verbally assault me
at a dance competition.
- My only choice was to remove myself from a situation
that could escalate to something more.
- [Dance Mom] Hey guys, hey guys.
- Oh look who's back.
- I will not be screamed at.
I will not be yelled at.
She got in my face, spit in my face.
I said,
"That's it, I'm not doing this anymore.
"This is crossing a line."
I had to go to the police station and fill out a report
to keep that other dance studio away from my team.
I will do whatever it takes to help the ALDC
win that national title.
- [Nationals Announcer] The highest scoring
national champion, [tense music]
The Prom!
[audience cheering]
And tell us all, where do you dance?
- [Dancers] Abby Lee Dance Studio!
[audience cheering]
- So where was Abby during that unaccounted for time?
Well, she wasn't kidding when she said
she was going for ice cream.
- [Bryan] So if you're talking.
- I had to get out of there.
I would've went to the movie truck
and been watching a flick already.
- [Bryan] As soon as I, I figured you were in a movie.
- I went to the movie theater.
- [Bryan] I figured you were at the movie theater.
- And I'm like, I could see them like coming around.
- [Show Producer] Like with a flashlight, like?
- Yeah, like trying to find me.
- So that's a wrap for me in this episode
of "Dance Moms Epic Showdowns,"
but just like anyone who said they were leaving the ALDC.
- [Abby] She's leaving?
- We're all leaving.
- [Abby] Toodles.
- You know I'll be back.