Maci Bookout was distraught upon learning ex Ryan Edwards had overdosed.
In a Wednesday, August 30, teaser for an upcoming episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter
, Maci, 32, becomes emotional when recalling the harrowing incident.
“When I found out that Ryan had overdosed, that’s truly the first time I was genuinely scared,” she shares as the camera cuts to a serious-looking conversation between Maci and her 15-year-old son, Bentley, whom she shares with Ryan, 35. While the brief clip doesn’t feature Maci and Bentley talking, it shows the mother and son looking serious.
“It’s so hard,” she cries in a confessional.
Teen Mom fans have watched Maci Bookout and Ryan Edwards’ drama play out for more than a decade. The pair’s rocky relationship was first documented on season 1 of 16 and Pregnant in 2009. After welcoming son Bentley in October 2008, the duo were briefly engaged in 2009 before calling it quits for good. Bookout […]
While the teaser doesn’t reveal the timeline of Ryan’s overdose, the Tennessee native was found “unconscious and unresponsive” in the driver’s seat of his truck in April, per the arrest affidavit obtained by
Ryan was found with a bag containing a “crystal type substance,” the report stated, as well as a “second small bag of what appeared to be a blue powder.” When he arrived at the hospital, he “advised he snorted a powder before waking up in the back of an ambulance.” (According to the report, Ryan was treated with Narcan — an over-the-counter medication that “rapidly reverses an opioid overdose,” per the National Institutes of Health — and “eventually regained consciousness.”
Ryan Edwards, who struggles with substance abuse, has been arrested for drug possession multiple times. The Teen Mom OG star shares son Bentley with his ex Maci Bookout. MTV cameras have followed the twosome since Bookout’s 16 and Pregnant episode aired in 2009. After the pair split, Bookout married husband Taylor McKinney in 2016. The […]
Later that month, Ryan was sentenced to nearly one year in jail after pleading guilty to harassing wife Mackenzie Edwards earlier that year. (Mackenzie — who shares 8-year-old son Jagger and 5-year-old daughter Stella with Ryan — filed for divorce in February.)
During Ryan’s stint in jail, Maci exclusively told Us that his bond with Bentley had actually grown stronger.
“I think as crazy as it is, because he is in jail right now, he shows up and communicates with Bentley, I think, more consistently now than he ever has, which is mind-blowing,” she shared in July, ahead of the season 2 premiere of
Where does the time go? Teen Mom premiered on MTV in 2009, and Catelynn Lowell, Amber Portwood, Maci Bookout and Farrah Abraham’s kids are all grown up. In fact, Abraham has been criticized for just how mature her daughter is. The Ex on the Beach star faced backlash after she shared a video of Sophia dancing […]
Ryan was released from jail and into a halfway house that same month — and he seems to be keeping up with his relationship with Bentley.
On August 27, Bentley shared a photo posing with his father, stepdad
“Family,” the teen captioned the sweet image.
Ryan was also photographed in seemingly good spirits while estranged wife Mackenzie visited him at the treatment center earlier this month.
Teen Mom: The Next Chapter airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.
Vanderpump Rules
alum Tom Schwartz is sharing new insight into his relationship with Kiana Carroll.
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In a Nov. 12 Instagram post, Tom shared that his rumored girlfriend recently sat as a guest on his podcast, Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz. There, the Bravoleb promised an in-depth look into the “fierce” world of modeling — where Kiana has forged a successful living — and the lesser-known challenges of the industry.
“Let’s go to one [of my] favorite places in the world, NYC, [with] one of my favorite humans in the world, [Kiana],” Tom captioned his post. “She’s got charisma, moxy and is as funny as she is beautiful. With cold beer in hand, we riff on the current state of the modeling biz from her chic high-rise apartment. Here’s your peek behind the curtain into the glamorous, gritty, and unpredictable world of professional modeling.”
Tom went on to publish 20 pics and video clips, from Kiana’s stunning modeling shots to time spent in the Big Apple. Dining out, airplane rides, and even Kiana wearing a towel in bed were just a few of the pair’s more up-close moments he chose to share with his followers.
Tom has teased Kiana on his social media in recent days, beginning with an Instagram Story on Nov. 6, showing them holding hands in the car while Kiana looked away from the camera. More recently, on Nov. 9, Tom shared one of Kiana’s Stories as they sat in a bar with her arm around Tom’s shoulders.
Amid the dating rumors that swirled between Tom and former VPR castmate Lala Kent, Tom revealed on the Oct. 8 episode of her Untraditionally Lala
podcast that he, in fact, was “dating” someone new. At the time, Lala had teasingly shared a “soft-launch” photo of her and Tom, and Tom said his new — albeit unnamed — girlfriend was “in on the joke.” He added, “She gets it totally.”
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Lala respected Tom’s desire to keep his relationship private, but admitted she’d met her in person, commenting on her “super hot face.”
“Some would call it a supermodel stunning face,” Lala continued. “I, like, kind of couldn’t put together words when I saw her.”