{"id":8369,"date":"2025-11-14T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/amber-portwoods-heartbreaking-struggle-with-daughter-leah-will-she-ever-come-around\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:13:27","slug":"amber-portwoods-heartbreaking-struggle-with-daughter-leah-will-she-ever-come-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/?p=8369","title":{"rendered":"Amber Portwood\u2019s Heartbreaking Struggle with Daughter Leah \u2013 Will She Ever Come Around?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amber Portwood\u00a0is continuing to process her strained relationship with her daughter Leah.<\/p>\n

The mom of two appears on the Thursday, April 17 episode of\u00a0Teen Mom: Next Chapter<\/em>, where she shares an update about struggling personally after hearing the news that daughter\u00a0Leah, 16, whom she shares with ex\u00a0Gary Shirley, wants to be adopted so that Gary’s wife, Kristina, will legally be her mother.<\/p>\n

“I thought I was already dark and deep in a hole from what happened to me, from the incident in North Carolina, and him leaving me in the mountains,” Amber begins in a confessional, acknowledging her breakup from fianc\u00e9 Gary Wayt.<\/p>\n

“When I found out about my daughter saying that she wanted to be adopted, it took over everything,” Amber tells producers in a confessional. “I was really just in bed for over four months. But I just realized that I truly just needed my mommy.”<\/p>\n

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In the scene, Amber calls her mom, Tonya, who she’s shared a rocky relationship with in the past.<\/p>\n

“I just woke up, and I was just like hopeless, just feeling like hopeless and just like, ‘F—, why am I awake?’ ” she tells her mom, who asked if Amber is taking her medication.<\/p>\n

“My relationship with my mom when I was around 16 was a little tumultuous,” she says, as past arguments with them on the show play in flashback scenes.<\/p>\n

“Me and my mom were fighting so bad, like I had to leave the house and live with my father,” she explains. “I’ve seen my mom three times, these last few weeks, when I hadn’t seen her almost a year.”<\/p>\n

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Later, Amber and Tonya meet for lunch, where Amber acknowledges that “this morning was heavy.”<\/p>\n

“But when I wake up crying like now, all I do is call you,” she adds.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always been there for you. You know that you always get my baby, no matter how old you are. So, no matter what it is, I’m still trying to understand what you’re going through,” Tonya tells her.<\/p>\n

Amber then asks Tonya about going to a psychiatrist appointment with her, explaining, “Because I’m not just bipolar. I have four major mental illnesses that I would like to have them explain it to you.”<\/p>\n

“I would think by now that they would have your medications straightened out by now, after eight years of them seeing you,” Tonya replies. Amber tries to explain, before Tonya continues, “I know, that’s the question that I have asked to ask him, to explain that to me.”<\/p>\n

“And he won’t take offense to it,” Amber says.<\/p>\n

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“I just think this has gone on too long,” Tonya says, later adding, “I just don’t see you progressing.”<\/p>\n

“What has gone on too long, mama? There’s no cure.”<\/p>\n

Changing the subject, Amber brings up Leah, explaining, “With my life circumstances and the things with Leah, I’m scared she’s never gonna come around.”<\/p>\n

“She’ll come around when she’s ready,” Tonya says.<\/p>\n

“I know, but I’m scared that’s not gonna happen,” Amber says. She then asks, “Does Leah call you?”<\/p>\n

“Texts. She tells me goodnight, that she loves me. Stuff like that.”<\/p>\n

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Amber cries as Tonya reassures her, “It’ll be fine. We can’t force her.”<\/p>\n

In her confessional, Amber says, “I see how my relationship with my mom was completely tumultuous, and today I’m with my mom. I love my mom so much. So, this is why I have hope with Leah. It’s gonna get better. It’s gonna take me a little while.”<\/p>\n

Teen Mom: The Next Chapter<\/em> airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.<\/p>\n

Sasha Farber<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>\u00a0is done dancing around all the rumors surrounding his dating life.<\/p>\n

After fans speculated that the former\u00a0Dancing With the Stars<\/em>\u00a0pro could be dating\u00a0Kaitlyn Bristowe<\/strong>,\u00a0Julianne Hough<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Francia Raisa<\/strong>, Farber, 41, decided to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, it\u2019s so funny. I\u2019ve known Kaitlyn for so many years,\u201d he shared in an interview with E! News\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

On November 7, Farber uploaded an\u00a0Instagram video\u00a0in which he and the former\u00a0<\/p>\n

While celebrating\u00a0Dancing With the Stars<\/em>\u2019\u00a020th Birthday Party\u00a0episode on Tuesday, November 11, Bristowe, 40,\u00a0laughed off any dating rumors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t see the reactions. Were people being like, \u2018Hard launch,\u2019 or something?\u201d Bristowe asked\u00a0<\/p>\n

Farber also talked to E! News about Hough, 37, who recently spent some time dancing with her former colleague.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0joint Instagram\u00a0post earlier this month, the pair danced to \u201cTambourine\u201d by\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNew trick unlocked!!!! TRY IT!!!\u201d Farber wrote via Instagram on Sunday, November 9. \u201cWe don\u2019t have fun at all, also this is right before I stepped in dog s*** @juleshough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before fans start speculating that something could be going on romantically between this pair, Farber shut the chatter down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Jules, the same thing. I\u2019ve known Jules for over so many years,\u201d he said in his latest interview with\u00a0<\/p>\n

Farber added, \u201cSo to answer your question, no hard launches. They are all friends, and [I\u2019m] still looking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farber was previously married to fellow\u00a0Dancing With the Stars<\/em>\u00a0pro\u00a0Emma Slater<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>\u00a0from 2018 to 2022. The duo have remained friends and frequently see each other while filming ABC\u2019s competition show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still like family, so it isn\u2019t really like the love is not there, it\u2019s actually not that at all,\u201d Slater revealed in an August 2023 episode of the \u201cViall Files\u201d podcast. \u201cWe\u2019re just at potentially two different places. But the hard part was that the love actually didn\u2019t go [away].\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, she explained, \u201cIt\u2019s really the kid thing. It\u2019s interesting because I do want to have kids, I just don\u2019t want to delay Sasha\u2019s path in having kids because I know that he is ready for that. I don\u2019t want to talk about him too much because that\u2019s really for him to say, but it\u2019s about kids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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