- ♪ MTV ♪
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Previously on "Teen Mom: Family Reunion"...
- I am not enough!
all: Aw.
\h- I feel like I don’t really know who I am if I’m not a mom.
- Who all can relate to being a good mom?
\h\h\h- Amber, come on. - You better stand up.
- Come on.
- I want to be an open person.
And it would be easier \hif you lived closer.
If you’re there, you’re there. \h\h\h\h\h\h\hIn or you’re out.
- Get ready for the mother \h\h\h\h\hof all reunions.
[all screaming]
- We’re reuniting in warm \h\h\hand sunny San Diego.
- Let’s toss some [bleep] \h\h\h\h\hfor fun, bitch!
- We’re gonna deal \hwith our drama.
- It doesn’t feel like \h\h\h\hwhat I thought
a marriage would feel like.
- We’re gonna heal \h\hfrom our past.
- I’m gonna cry.
- And we’re gonna \h\hcome together
like only this family can.
\h- ♪ I know some people they would die for me ♪
\h♪ We run together, they’re my family ♪
♪ I say forever, my family ♪
[upbeat music]
\h\h\h\h\h- You know my current situation.
It never--what it is?
- Is there a perfect timing \h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat exists?
I just think that timing \h\h\his a blessing, so.
- Maybe, it depends.
♪ ♪
- Before I asked you to be \h\h\hmy girlfriend, like,
like there was things I was \h\h\h\h\hlike, "Yo, like,
I know if I make this happen, \hlike, I’m gonna be all in."
- West V.
- I want a healthy, good relationship.
And I want my kids \hto witness that.
Jaylan says he’s going to move closer to me.
And I think that I’m ready \h\h\hto let my guard down.
You are just fun and caring.
And I know that might sound silly, but you like my dog.
\h\h\h- Your family. - You love my family.
- Yeah.
I feel very confident \h\h\h\h\h\hwith Leah.
\hEvery day, we’re really knocking down more walls,
so I feel good.
I’m just gonna stick with it \h\h\h\h\h\hand let her know
\h\h\h\h\hthat I’m here for hopefully forever.
So this is--
- I’m not gonna be guarded.
\h\h\h\hAnd if I am, I want to be checked.
Like I wanna work on it.
- I’ll let you know \h\h\hof that more.
- You’ll let me know.
- I’ll let you know. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Cheers.
\h\h\h\h- Cheers. - Cheers to that.
- God. Pray for me.
Deep breaths.
- ♪ Got only one chance ♪
♪ Got only one shot ♪
♪ Better live it up ♪
- I hate premix patties.
- Them ones are ready to flip.
So why don’t you just let ’em \h\h\hcook a little bit more?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- What do I want? I’m taking a burger I think.
- ♪ Best life (my best life) ♪
♪ I’m living my best life ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Best life ♪
[laughter]
- Oh, hell no.
- We’re going to have \h\ha slumber party.
- Yes! Mwah.
\h\h- This reunion is coming to an end and I just want us
to come out of our shell a bit more and let loose.
\h\h\h\hSo I thought it’d be really funny
\h\hif all the moms just had, like, one big slumber party.
I come bearing some [bleep] \h\h\h\h\h\h\hamazing gifts
and we’re gonna have \h\ha damn good time.
- We’re all used to being moms \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hall the time.
We never just goof off.
So I think this is gonna be \h\h\h\ha fun little night.
- We could definitely have \h\h\h\h\h\hour kids’ side
come out tonight, I think. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
- So we need to go wake up...
- Bri. - Bri.
- Right there. Four times.
- She’s not vibing with us right now.
\h\h\h- Yeah. - Hey, Bri...
- She’s been asleep \hfor a little bit.
- It’s not production. \h\h\h\h\hIt’s just us.
\h\h- What if she’s literally knocked,
just spread the [bleep] \h\hout across her bed?
\h\h- Are you spread out across your [bleep] bed?
[laughter]
- We’re trying to have \h\h\ha slumber party.
- You’ll look really cute \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\has Wendy.
\h- The lights were off. She was clearly sleeping.
She could’ve been [bleep] \h\h\h\h\h\hmasturbating.
\h\hI don’t wanna walk in there and interrupt.
\h- All right. - Oh, [bleep].
- Well, damn.
[all yell]
- What are you doing in front of my door?
And I heard like a commotion \h\h\h\h\h\hgoing on outside.
I’m like, "What is going on?"
- You’re coming with us \h\hto a slumber party.
- I’m glad they woke me up.
\h\h\hThis was like my first sleepover.
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
\h- Oh, this is cute! - No, do not, do not.
- Wait, what if I want it? \h\h\h\h\h\h- There it is.
- We’re in there for like \h\h\hT minus 30 seconds.
[all yelling]
I got silly string in my hair. \h\h\h\hI got it in my mouth.
\h\hI got it on my eyes. Like we’re covered in it.
- [bleep]! [bleep]!
[laughter, yelling]
- It feels so good to not have \h\h\h\h\h\ha kid and kind of,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlike, be a big kid for a little bit.
- There it is. Hey!
[laughter]
- We very well might have just lost our damn minds.
- Oh, get it, get it, get it.
- I see that ass. \hI see that ass.
♪ ♪
- Being teen moms, you know, \h\h\h\h\hwe didn’t get to do
all the things teenagers \hget to do or goof off
\h\h\hor have a lot of slumber parties.
- [screaming]
- What is the matter?
\h\h\h- I feel this is just another one of those things.
Like we kind of get to live \h\h\h\hsome of the things
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwe missed out on, and I don’t care how old I am.
I love a good slumber party.
\h\h- So we have an exercise that we thought about doing.
The first day we got here,
Maci and I were trying \hto figure out, like,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwhat are things that we could do with everyone?
And we came up with a burn box. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- A burn box.
- Sorry, what, what?
- What we’re gonna do is you’re gonna write
\h\h\hon a notecard something that you want to leave here.
Like, let go here. So--
- Like rid yourself of.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Right. And we’re gonna burn it.
\h- Just one thing, like one sentence?
\h- Or if there’s multiple things.
- Or if there’s multiple, girl, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwrite, totally.
- Whatever it is. Yeah.
- Maybe something that, like, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou didn’t know
that you were working with \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hor had,
\h\hlike, a problem with and you wanna let it go.
- We have all done a lot of work here
and I want the moms \hto think about it.
And then before we leave \h\h\h\h\h\hthe resort,
\h\hshare with each other what we are leaving here.
- There you go.
- There we go.
- It’s still scary as [bleep]. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Whoo-hoo!
- Thank you. - She did it.
- I feel like a pageant queen.
- Aw. - Aw.
- I feel like a Pop-Tart.
[laughter]
- I feel like I’ve gotten closer to everybody here.
I mean, it’s hard not to feel \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat way
when everybody has opened up \h\hand shared their stories.
And I definitely feel like \h\hI’ve proved to myself
that I can be the person \h\h\hthat I want to be.
[laughter]
\h\h\h\h\h- Going from bitches throwing punches at each other
on the first night to friends \h\h\h\h\hand family throwing
[bleep] pillows at each other, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hlike really hard.
This place gave me \ha lot of energy
and I get a lot of support \h\hfrom the other women.
So it really makes me feel \hlike I could get support
\h\h\h\h\hfrom more people if they actually knew me.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- All right. Get in the picture, guys.
- Goodnight, everybody.
- Goodnight. - Goodnight.
- I love you bitches.
- ♪ You living lavish, always looking maverish ♪
♪ Always the original ♪
♪ And all they do was catfish ♪
[upbeat music]
- Okay.
- Damn.
- You're just a sore--you're just sore loser.
- Oh!
- One.
- Shut the [bleep] up.
- I'm done playing.
[phone rings]
- Are the kids still up?
- Benny and Maverick just went in the room,
but yeah, they're still up.
- Hey, Jade.
This journey has been phenomenal.
Like I understand myself more.
I'm trying to really feel emotions and be vulnerable.
And it's working.
I'll be home soon.
I want to talk to Coach B
about tools that she can give me to take home
because I don't wanna go home thinking like,
"Oh, I can just go back to what I was used to doing."
That's not gonna work.
- Could you take care of me by yourself?
- Oh-oh. - No.
- How do you even have time
to do, like, homework and everything?
- I go home--just like go home, and Bentley is a wild animal.
- Don't talk like that.
Stop calling each other names or y'all can't play together.
Do you hear me? What are you doing?
- Backflips.
- Backflips? Is that very smart?
Mondays, Maverick has games.
Bentley has golf and Jade will have practice.
- We're gonna get started.
- There's only two of us and we have three--
- Three kids on three different teams.
- I feel like the little bit of time that I do get,
it's always just full-blown parenting.
You have tests to study for, bro.
- He's trying to have a little fun night out with Mom.
You're giving him a hard time. You back off.
- I'm not giving him a hard time.
I just don't like surprises.
I'm trying to tell you that you did something that bothered me
and you're not hearing it.
- I was helping you out on a day you didn't feel good.
- Next time, run it by me first.
Where are you going?
- I need to get Bentley.
- I really just want some guidance and some advice
on ways to continue my growth
and continue to stay on this path when I get home.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
- I love you. - Love you. Bye.
♪ ♪
- Why is the duck coming right at us?
- That's a big-ass bird.
- It's following you. - I know it is.
- It wants you.
- That bird is staring at me.
- [quacks]
- If you call that thing over here,
I swear to God I will jump in the water.
Shoo. Shoo.
- It must mistake my hair for his [bleep] home.
I'm not with the [bleep].
This bird, it's staring into my soul.
[phone rings]
- Ace. Oh, man. There's my boy.
- Hi, Papa.
- What's up, little burrito?
- 'Cause I'm about to go to sleep.
- Take his blinky on and see if he smiles.
- What's up, burrito man?
- Hi, Acey-poo! - Hi.
- I really love my kids.
I miss the heck out of Ryder and Ace.
But I also think that this trip is kind of good for us.
Zach and Cory and I, we co-parent very well.
We all have the same goal, that we do everything
for our children.
We keep them first, and that's how
we've been able to co-parent so well.
- Can I have a kiss?
- It's your birthday!
- To many more years of love.
- Marriage!
- And babies.
- Mommy has a baby in her belly.
- You're about to join fatherhood now.
It's about to get real.
[all screaming]
- Ouch. What did we do?
- Party time, baby.
[baby crying]
- All right. Open.
- [screaming] - Yay!
[laughter]
- I love you! I love you!
Yeah! I'm back!
I'm back.
I love you.
How do you like being a dad?
- I love it, man.
- I mean, you were already playing that role with Ryder.
- This isn't a normal co-parenting situation, so--
- Yeah.
- But kids come first.
We have to make it work for them.
- I'm proud of us. - I am too.
- Oh, yeah.
- We have learned how to put our bull[bleep]
and our pride to the side for the greater good of Ryder.
♪ ♪
- You can sit right here. - Okay.
- Tonight, I want to talk to Coach B.
I feel like I've made a lot of progress
while I've been here and done a lot of work
on myself while I've been here.
And I don't wanna go backwards.
- I wanna ask, what have you discovered,
you know, within your time being here?
- I can definitely say before this, like, I knew
I had an unhealthy relationship with feelings
and my main thing coming in was,
like, just finding out who Maci is
and I've done a lot of work on that.
I'm not as uptight as I had allowed myself to be.
Being here, I've really wanted to get to know who Maci is
as a 30-year-old woman, not who is Maci as a mom.
And leaving here, I just feel like this clarity.
- It seems like there's, and I don't wanna like assume
so I'm gonna ask, but I feel like
there's something else going on that's a little deeper,
that maybe you're experiencing,
and maybe it seems surface to you,
but it is the root of a lot of this stuff.
- Taylor and I really do have a very good relationship
where we like each other a lot.
We're really good friends.
But I could tell for sure that,
especially in the last couple of years,
that closed-off-ness and with--inside of me
was really preventing us from, again,
getting to know the older, more mature,
more grown-up Maci, because I was still bringing...
- The kids to the party. - The kids to the fight.
Well, you know, and into the marriage and everything.
But I'm not 17 anymore.
- Marriage and parenting is grown folk business.
- Yeah.
- So when you start to allow your younger self to come in,
it's a wrap.
She was a powerhouse for surviving, right?
- Right.
- But through being a powerhouse and surviving
came a lot of trauma.
And so when she arrives to the fight, she's tearing stuff up.
- Yeah. - Right?
- She is. - She is.
And so you have to release her.
- Yeah. I want to make sure that I, like, set up things
that I know that I have to do when I get home
and make a priority when I get home
so that I don't fall back.
I feel like it could be so like literally a week later
and be back exactly where I was before I started.
- Everything's, you know, a family dynamic.
So when one thing in that dynamic changes or shifts,
everything has to shift or change with it.
So you going home with a new energy
or just even a-- some new awarenesses
which you have is gonna shift the dynamic
in the way that you've shifted, so the momentum
and that dynamic's gonna shift for the better,
because that's what you're gonna come home
and create and project onto that environment.
- Yeah.
- It's just your responsibility then to, you know,
continue to use the tools and do the work.
Make sense? - Yes, it does. It does.
- All right. Great job. - Thank you so much.
Coach B, she's awesome.
I'll always be Maci on a mission.
It's just, I can't be on that same mission anymore.
The fact that I'm even emotional right now feels good.
Thank you. - Great job.
- ♪ To where we started ♪
- So proud of you, Maci. Seriously.
- ♪ Set it off ♪
- ♪ La, la, la, la, la ♪
♪ La, la, la, la, la ♪
♪ La, la, la, la, la... ♪
- Today is our last day here.
\hNow that this trip is coming to an end,
I think my biggest thing is \h\h\h\h\h\h\hI was really,
really trying to figure out
is this gonna be a good idea \h\h\h\h\h\h\hor a bad idea?
And I’m safe to say
\h\h\hthat this was probably the best idea we’ve had yet.
[upbeat music]
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Cheyenne tells us that she wants to do a burn box
where basically you write down one thing that you wanna burn.
\h\hI would like to burn any animosity and anxiety
that I have moving forward.
- The burn box is really a great exercise to do.
’Cause when you burn \h\h\h\h\hthe things
\h\hthat you should just leave behind, it’s very therapeutic.
♪ ♪
- Amber being really sick \hwith stomach poisoning,
I haven’t had a chance \h\h\hto talk to her.
- How do you feel about \h\h\h\h\hyou and Amber
and where you guys \h\hare right now?
- Yeah, I mean, I think she did \h\h\h\h\h\htake a lot of time
to relax in her room. \hUnderstandably why.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - You know, burned up.
So it’s kind of hard to, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know,
so we weren’t--we weren’t \h\hlike together a lot.
- That’s why you come here \his get in a better place.
I think if anything, try to have a talk with her today.
- Mm-hmm.
Before I leave,
there are a few things I want to chat about.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- This [bleep]. - That guac was really good.
- Oh, hello. \h- What up?
- I’m almost, yeah, why?
- Sure. - Okay.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Ooh. You in trouble.
- So what’s going on \h\hwith everything?
- When I went to the island, \hI was with Maci and Briana.
- We had to go around and say \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"I am,"
\h\hand then something positive about ourself.
But I was like, I’m a good mom.
And everyone stood up \h\hexcept for Amber.
- Oh, no.
I think there was a question \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hasked about
\h\h\h\h\hstanding up if you’re a good mom,
and you were stayed sitting down and...
\h\h\h\h\h\hI let my anger kind of take over my life.
They told you that? \h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
\h- Mm. - So--
- Damn.
You know, I don’t really like him to know how sad
I am about that situation
’cause I don’t like to put that on him.
- I just don’t want you feeling \h\h\h\hlike you’re a bad mom.
\h\h\h\h\hI mean, you made some bad decisions and it, you know,
\h\h\h\htranslates to now a little bit, obviously.
\h\h\h\h\hDo I take Leah to see Amber in prison?
\h\hI mean, there’s all these questions
that I can’t answer yet.
- You said that you were \h\hthinking about Leah.
\h\h\h\hYou’ve been a terrible mom to her?
- Yeah.
I haven’t been there for her. \h\h\hThat’s terrible enough.
And she needs more, she deserves more.
It makes me sick just thinking about how many times I’ve seen
Leah in the last year \h\h\h\h\hand a half.
\h\h\h\h- She got out. She gonna come see you.
\h\h- I feel like everybody is just like looking at me
like a piece of [bleep] \h\h\h\h\h\hright now.
\h\h\h\h\h- No. - They are not.
- No, they’re not.
- I don’t think your mom’s \h\h\hgonna be here today.
\hShe said, "I would like to do something with Leah
Friday evening for dinner."
- I just want my relationship \h\h\h\h\h\hwith my daughter.
She’s losing time with her mom,
and she’s not wanting time \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith her mom.
I never ever wanted \h\h\hto hurt you.
I think about you every day.
And I would never stop trying \h\hto mend our relationship.
- I’m sure we have like \h\h\h\hgood memories,
but I couldn’t tell if,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlike, the crying or anything like that was fake.
So I really don’t know \hwhat to think of it.
- I know things are rocky \h\hand I know, you know,
you’ve made a lot of mistakes, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hbut you’re also,
especially in more recent days, \h\h\h\h\h\h\howning up to it.
With Amber’s situation with her mental health,
it’s never gonna go away.
You can be manic \hand depressed,
manic and depressed.
\h\h\hBut I have a lot of faith and confidence that, you know,
she can at least maintain it.
And I’ve seen that \hwith my own eyes.
\h\hSo I think that’s very possible for her
to kind of stay on course.
\h\hI guess I would say this with Leah,
you just can’t give up.
- When it comes to me and her \h\hlike I think eventually,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhopefully, we can make something happen.
If she sees me, like, staying in her life.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI know you’re in a position right now...
- Yeah.
- Trying to coordinate between, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know, Leah.
\hI don’t like him being in the middle of anything
when it comes to me \hand my daughter.
’Cause that part of it is, \h\his that--is that he is.
\h\h\h\h\h\hHe’s the father, and this is just how it is.
- Like, yeah, I know we put up \h\h\h\h\h\h\hsome boundaries.
- We already talked about, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlike,
therapy and stuff for Leah.
Just Gary wasn’t for it at all.
\h- So I talked to Leah last night about seeing
\h\h\hif she was open to going to therapy.
I know she’s against it.
And I’m not gonna sit here \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand make Leah
\h\h\h\h\h\hgo somewhere because it’ll help Amber.
If there’s gonna be any kind of reuniting or reconciling,
\hit’s gonna have to be like, hey, Amber’s really dug deep
\h\h\hand really did what she needed to do
to be the mother she needs to be.
\h\h\h\hI don’t know where it’s gonna end personally,
but I do know like...
- I’m trying.
\h- If you stop being or either attempting,
\h\h\h\hthen you know where it’s gonna go.
It’s really hard for me \hto gauge the progress
between her and Leah
\hbecause there’s not communication there.
But if she keeps trying \h\hand Leah’s willing,
I would definitely \h\hencourage them
to spend more time together.
Well, so I just wanted to chat \h\h\h\hwith you for a minute.
I don’t want you feeling \hall upset about things.
- I appreciate it.
I think the reunion has changed \h\h\hmy relationship with Gary
because he is able to see \h\h\hhow much I changed.
\h\hIt’s not perfect, but it’s trying until something happens.
- No, it is all gonna be good.
I just think it’s just \h\h\ha matter of time.
- ♪ Remember, we, we’re living \h\h\h\h\h\hin this together ♪
- ♪ You want it, want it ♪
\h\h\h♪ I got it, got it, stop right on the center ♪
- Tonight, I’m really excited \h\hto get dressed, get cute
and go and hang out with just the moms.
It’s our final dinner.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd I know it’s gonna be a good one.
\h- It’s bittersweet being the last day,
but I miss my kids and Taylor so much.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Come on, Bri. \h\h\h\h- Damn.
\h- All of us moms need a big hurrah.
Like we need to get together \h\h\h\h\h\hat a nice dinner
with some cocktail dresses \h\h\hto say our goodbyes
\h\h\hand hopefully reunite again soon.
Well, there’s an extra seat \h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor somebody.
- Coach B.
- Farrah.
- Farrah might come, but I’m not too sure.
That’d be [bleep] crazy. \hMaybe Kayla will come.
Is there like a new \h\h"Teen Mom" girl
\h\h\hthat’s about to join, like who the [bleep] knows?
- Thank you. \h- Calamari.
- I was so scared.
- There you go.
- Bri talks me into eating \h\h\hthis [bleep] calamari
that I’ve never had before.
\h\hIt looks exactly how it tastes, nasty.
[laughter]
\h\h- I’m just looking around the table and thinking about
where we all started \h\hwhen we got here
and I just can’t believe \hhow far we’ve all come.
- What do you OGs have to say?
I mean, this has never \h\h\hhappened before.
Like what do you think about all this [bleep]
\h\hlike we’ve done the last two weeks?
- Honestly, me and Maci. \h\h\hI’m gonna say this.
We’ve been doing this \h\h\h\hfor 13 years.
We never thought that it would go this far.
So to see that whole franchise of other women coming together,
it’s been really amazing to, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlike,
get to know you guys on a personal level.
- It is amazing.
- I feel so connected \h\h\hto all of you.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - I would’ve never thought
I would’ve had friendships \h\h\h\h\h\hwith you guys.
- A hundred percent. Yes.
- My mindset before anything was like,
\h\hthese girls live in different states.
I’m never gonna hang out \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith them,
so why even try to gain \h\h\h\h\h\hyour trust?
And now look. \h\h\h- Yeah.
- The first night I was very,
\h\h\hwhat the [bleep] did I get myself into?
- You bitches fake as [bleep]!
\h\h\h- Bitch, you-- bitch, you been fake!
- Yo, what the [bleep]?
- I’ll drag you, bitch!
- You can’t deal with it. \h\h\h\h\h- What, bitch?
\h\h\h- You guys got over things so fast.
- Yeah.
\h\h- I knew that something was actually--it was gonna be good
and we were gonna have \h\h\h\h\ha good time.
- Can we hug it out? - Yes. I respect you.
- I respect you. We’ll be good. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Thank you.
- That one exercise \h\h\hthat we did,
\h\hthat "I am" exercise that we had to stand up.
- Yes.
- I didn’t realize that we had \h\h\h\hso much more in common
\h\h\hthan just being on the same television show
\h\h\hand having kids at such a young age.
- I am strong. \h\h\h\h- Okay.
So who can relate to being strong?
♪ ♪
- Ash, how can you relate \h\h\h\hto being strong?
- When you have to raise a kid \h\hand you have to figure out
what that parenting looks like,
’cause you act it, it’s hard. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s just is.
It takes a strong person to navigate those waters.
I walked into the "I am" like real guarded after the mixer.
I didn’t know if we was gonna \h\h\h\hhave to throw hands,
if we was gonna hug it out.
Once I started actually listening to everybody,
I felt like I could identify \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith something
that everybody said, \h\h\heven if, like,
we all didn’t grow up \h\h\hthe exact same.
- I love all the moms.
Like I have a soft spot \h\hfor everybody here.
I didn’t think that \h\hwe could relate
on so many different levels,
but I’m gonna miss all the moms \h\honce I leave this reunion.
As long as our bond is strong,
nothing from the outside \h\hcan tear that apart.
- Exactly. You’re right.
\hLike when you don’t have to see somebody,
\h\hyou don’t really care what your relationship is with them.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hEspecially when it’s a negative relationship.
\h\hBut there is that tension going into things like this,
the reunions.
And it would feel good--it does \h\h\hfeel good to just be able
to be like, oh, we can link up. \h\h\h\hLike we can do drinks.
- It’s not just issues. \h\h\h\h\h\h- I agree.
- I came into this \h\hreunion anxious
and not knowing what to expect.
\h\hAnd leaving here, I feel more at peace,
\hand I definitely have gained family
in this crazy "Teen Mom" world.
- We have to plan to do this again,
but bring every single body.
- Yeah. - Yes.
\h\h\h- Everybody. - Yes, absolutely.
- Everybody got an invitation \h\h\h\h\h\hto come to this.
\h\h- Cate couldn’t come ’cause she just literally
\hhad a baby a week before we got here.
\h\h- I can’t help but wish that Cate was here with us.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI mean, she’s a part of the OG girls.
Yeah. Cate would come.
- 100%.
♪ ♪
\h\h\h- Cheers to... - That’s a good idea.
- "Teen Mom: Family Reunion."
\hall: Cheers.
\h- Oh, yeah. - Oh, my God!
[all screaming]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Walk in the room, all eyes on me ♪
♪ All eyes on me ♪
- Oh, my God! [all screaming]
- Oh, you look [bleep] great!
- You look great!
- I'm Catelynn.
And you would best know me from "Teen Mom OG."
- You're doing really good, honey.
- I was 16 when I got pregnant, 17 when I had my daughter.
- There she is. You did great.
- Tyler and I decided
that we were going to place Carly for adoption.
- Hi, baby girl.
- She's just really gone now.
We have been together for 14 years.
We'll be all right, though.
- Yeah, we always are.
And married for six.
- I pronounce you husband and wife.
- We have three more daughters: Nova, who is six,
Vaeda, who is two and a half, and then--
- [yelps] Oh, [bleep], it's a girl, okay.
- We recently just had another daughter, Raya,
who is almost a month old.
Even though I couldn't be here from the beginning,
Tyler and I made it work to where I could come in
for one quick day to surprise all of the girls.
- Welcome to the Not Yo' [bleep] Show.
- Yeah.
- When the [bleep] did you get here?
- This morning.
I left my house at like 5:00 AM.
- No way. - Oh, my gosh.
- Yeah, I wish I would've been here the whole time,
but it's just boom, bam, in and out.
- How do you feel having a newborn?
- Oh, it's nice.
- You good? - Yeah.
- You glowing. You got that mama glow.
- Yep. - Yeah.
- She's the mama bear.
- She's the mama bear, seriously.
- Me and Cate, we're like two peas in a pod.
You put me, Cate, and Maci together, done.
Seeing her always makes me feel way more comfortable.
Yeah. That's my girl.
- So I wanna know the tea.
- What do you wanna know? What flavor tea would you like?
- Right?
- I wanna know what happened when Farrah showed up.
- Oh.
- Whoa, I don't know what happened, either.
- Chayenne flipped the whole thing.
- I heard you flipped the table.
But what made you flip it?
- So we had a baby to get on this show?
That's how you feel. That's nice.
- I guess I feel really ghetto too like that.
- It's funny that you're back here.
- Ghetto?
- He's ghetto 'cause he's Black, right?
For her to call him ghetto, it was like a little thing
just like popped in my head and triggered me.
It was so ignorant for her to say.
And Cory is far from ghetto.
So the only reason you said it is because he's a Black man.
So call it what it is.
And I just got a little upset, and I maybe flipped the table.
- I think you had every right to lose your [bleep].
- You know her snarky comments like talking down to people.
- Yeah, how we're all nasty and we're so trash.
- Are you cool with her, Cate? - Yeah.
What? Am I cool with her? No. - No.
- She doesn't know how to take accountability.
- Let's not make this about Farrah.
- So what else have you guys been doing, though?
Anything fun besides the drama?
- A lot of fun. - I almost died, by the way.
I ended up in the hospital.
- It's all Cory's fault.
- He literally brought "The Challenge" to us.
- Oh, my gosh.
- On your mark. Get set. Go, go.
[all shouting]
- Come on! - Go, Briana.
- I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
- Briana, stay with us. - Look at me.
Briana, look at me, please. Look at me.
Breathe through your nose and out through your mouth.
[siren wailing]
- Then we did ropes course with a zipline.
- Ooh, that sounds fun too.
- Ashley, when I say she seen me like scared, scared,
and I realized her knees were shaking.
I said this bitch is so scared.
If I don't get my [bleep] together, we're both falling.
- I need to get down. I cannot jump off of this.
- This is the way to get down in three seconds.
Your ass will be on the ground. You'll be good.
- Keep your eyes closed. You got it.
[all cheering]
- I'm proud of you.
- I knew you are. So proud of you.
- So I put my like gray face on and I just kept going
and I'm, like, helping her up and I'm thinking,
"Damn, a week ago, I would've just let her fall."
[laughter]
- I feel like I never expected to feel compassion for Jade.
And I feel like we've made
some great growth during this little reunion trip.
- Right now I feel like our sisterhood is finally complete.
all: Yeah.
- I think this is really what the "Teen Mom" family needed.
Just being able to, like, get together and put things aside
and be able to just have fun together.
- What if we go do like a bonfire?
It's super nice out. - Ooh.
- Okay. - Let's go.
- Oh, we should burn the box there.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Cheers to Cate showing up... - Cheers.
- And really ending this with a bang.
- Whoo, for staying after nine months.
[all cheering]
♪ ♪
- Hey!
- This is cute. - It is cute.
Walking into the bonfire, it's really cute.
This is just a great ending to our trip.
- Where is Ashley? - I spoke to Bar.
Ashley's not coming. She's feeling super sick.
- [retches] Oh, [bleep].
I'm hot as [bleep]. I'm nauseous.
- Yeah, I don't think she gonna make it.
- I hope she's okay.
- Me too. - Me too.
- I'm so glad that she came, and I'm so glad
we got to know her on such a deeper level.
- Yeah.
- I feel like she's grown a lot this trip.
- Yeah. She's grown so much.
- Yeah. - Even like with her and Bar,
I feel like they've even kind of like--
- I've seen that. - He loves that woman.
- Loves her.
- It doesn't feel like
what I thought a marriage would feel like.
- What did you think a marriage would feel like?
I love that. Go there, Ash.
- I dunno, like romance.
I appreciate you for setting this up.
- And I'll put more effort in at home too.
I got you. I promise. I love you.
- Love you too.
- That's some love right there.
- I agree.
- Amber, like, you didn't wanna stand up
for the "I am a mother" thing.
Just because you made mistakes,
doesn't make you a bad person or a bad mom.
- You are a good mom.
- You're doing all the stuff you're supposed to do.
So you gotta give yourself that like credit.
- More credit.
- If I keep [bleep] up every time I have a child,
I don't feel like that's a good mom.
- You're doing the work.
- I think we're all figuring it out.
- Good job. I'm proud of you.
- That breaks my heart.
- You're gonna make me [bleep] cry, Cate.
- Okay, well, you're gonna make me cry,
you thinking that you're a bad mom.
I love you.
- I love you more.
Leaving here, I'm taking back home with me
so much support.
And I'm also taking back a lot of reassurance
because I felt that I had changed,
but I never had a--the reassurance
of other people telling me that.
And now I can feel better about myself, honestly.
- Devoin came. - Oh, really?
- We had a one-on-one session and it was, like, crazy.
- I just want you to know, you know what I mean?
Like I'm definitely can do a lot for--
a lot more for her now than what you can remember.
- Okay. - I really can.
- Is that a commitment? Hmm?
- I promise.
- We cried it out. We hugged it out.
We spoke about the things that we wanna work on
when we get back home for the sake of these girls.
And that's all we can do.
- I'm proud of you. - Yes.
- Yeah, that's a-- - Same.
- I didn't expect for Briana and Devoin
to finally have a really good, like, start
to a new relationship between the two of them
for the sake of their daughter.
That's amazing to see. I'm happy for them.
That's major growth.
- All right. But, you know, we had y'all write on cards.
All of us wrote down what we wanna burn while we're here.
So I brought a box for us to burn.
- Let's burn it.
all: Burn it, burn it, burn it.
[upbeat music]
- I brought a box for us to burn.
- Oh, okay. - Okay.
- On one card we wrote down what we were burning,
AKA what we are leaving here.
Like what we are freeing ourselves of,
what we are ridding ourself of.
So we're gonna go around and say what's on our burn card
and put it in the box.
And when we're done, we're gonna burn this mother[bleep].
- This mother[bleep]. - Let's burn it!
- I'll go first since I have the box.
[laughter]
It says I wanna burn my unhealthy relationship
with emotions,
which means I have to feel things
and allow them to do whatever emotions do.
'Cause I don't know that just yet, but I'm gonna learn.
I'm learning.
Leaving here, I do know who Maci is and I like her a lot.
Like, she's cool. She's funny. She's strong. She's lighter.
And I just have to put the work in to keep me now.
- So for my burn, I said I want to let go of mom guilt
to be a better mom for my kids.
So I think sometimes I blame myself
for how things happened in the past
or Ryder having to be in a two-parent,
two-family situation, and I feel bad for her
as I feel like I try to overcompensate.
She might be a little spoiled because of that.
And I think I need to let go of what happened
and to live in the present.
I wanna let go of things that I've done in the past
and how I'm trying
to constantly make up for them every day.
I want my kids to know that it's okay to not be okay.
I want them to understand that life isn't perfect,
but that it's all a work in progress.
- I wanna burn my self-doubt
because sometimes I don't feel like
I'm good enough to have people like you guys around me.
This whole trip taught me that I can do so much more
than what I ever thought I could do.
- That's right.
Good job, Jade.
- I doubt myself in life too much.
And I think it's gonna be impossible
to have relationships and love others correctly.
If you don't have that self-love within yourself,
it just won't work.
- I'm burning just fear, doubt, and being guarded
in all relationships and friendships.
So instead of allowing people in only at a surface level,
letting them get to know me more,
and not being ashamed of that.
- Attagirl, that's perfect.
- Leaving here, I think that there's a lot of things
that I can take and implement in my life.
I think I can be more open and receptive
to love and relationships and trusting people in general,
and definitely see where things go with me and Jaylan.
- I don't know if you guys know what a supermom is,
but somebody who wants to do everything.
And I wanna burn that [bleep] to the ground.
I'm tired of all this pressure of me
wanting to make everything perfect.
Being in control, not asking for help.
Me burning this is letting go of so much weight
off my shoulders, and it's time for my baby daddies to step up
so I can have a break.
I think this time is different.
I think Devoin is ready to give his all
when it comes to co-parenting and being there for the girls.
I know he's a good dad, but now I feel like
I will be more relaxed when he's with the girls.
- Amber. - All right.
For me, I wanna stay out of my bubble
that I made to protect myself from others hurting me
and also in relationships, et cetera.
It says because I'm not just talking about relationships,
like in a loving manner.
I'm talking about, like, my family.
I like to just stay in a bubble that protects me
so I don't get hurt.
'Cause I'm already feeling so hurt anyways.
Every relationship I've had, friends, family, or men, women,
I've felt every single one of them.
So if I just-- if I'm out of my comfort zone,
then I'll be able to, I think, grow more.
So yeah.
It was such an uplifting experience.
I'm definitely gonna take all of that positive energy
that was given to me from all the girls.
I'm gonna keep it. You know, I wanna see Leah.
I'll never give up on her.
- All right, Cate, let's go. - All right.
- Bring us home. - All right.
- So basically I wanna let go of my mom anxiety.
I have tons and tons of like mom anxiety,
thinking worst-case scenario about my kids all the time.
What's meant to be will be, good or bad.
We have no control over that.
So I wanna try to just let that go.
- Yeah. - Good job.
- We've had to come here and put ourselves out there.
We've been vulnerable throughout this process,
and I think we can really call ourselves as a family now.
- All right, y'all ready to burn it?
- Burn it. - Yeah.
- I'm really proud of us.
I'm not gonna cry
'cause I'm just really [bleep] proud of us.
I'm just looking around the bonfire
and thinking about where we all started.
When we got here, everyone had a blast.
Everyone worked hard, and I'm just really proud of us.
Well, I feel so connected to all of you,
and I feel like everyone's connected to each other.
I wish Ashley was here. Y'all just keep being you.
Like I love y'all so much.
We are a big family and hooray for our first family reunion.
[all cheer]
All right.
- I feel like I can relate to them
and I can actually feel comfortable with them,
and that's family.
Yeah, that's a sisterhood.
[all cheering]
- If there's something you don't wanna burn in here,
speak now or forever hold you peace.
- Nah, burn that mother[bleep]! - Burn that [bleep]!
all: Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it!
- Oh, Lord. - Yeah!
- You know how to do the bonfire, girl.
[all cheering]
- Yeah! - Burn!
- I think after burning this box,
we all come to the realization
that this is the start of something new.
[all cheering]
- In one piece.
- ♪ I'm a true believer ♪
♪ I believe ♪
♪ I believe, I believe, yeah ♪
♪ I know anything is possible ♪
♪ And I, I've never felt so, so away ♪
♪ Away ♪
♪ Oh, I, I've got a dream I've gotta make it ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, go test me ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, I'll show you the best me ♪
all: "Teen Mom: Family Reunion"!
- ♪ I'm taking on the world ♪
♪ Making it a good time, a good time ♪