{"id":9614,"date":"2025-11-15T02:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/amber-portwoods-heartbreaking-struggle-with-daughter-leah-will-she-ever-come-around-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:51:02","slug":"amber-portwoods-heartbreaking-struggle-with-daughter-leah-will-she-ever-come-around-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/?p=9614","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

Earlier this year,\u00a0Todd Chrisley<\/strong>\u00a0received a pardon from the President. However,\u00a0<\/p>\n

Todd and Patricia are the reality feud I never saw coming.\u00a0Their tiny tit for tat\u00a0started after Todd\u2019s release from prison. \u201cDuring the [post-prison] press conference, I had stated that we are doing a hotel and it\u2019s going to be near Charleston, South Carolina,\u201d Todd explained. In response, Patricia said, \u201cWell, there goes the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, Todd did not like that. So, he made several jests about Patricia, which mainly focused on her older age and her finances. Overall, it was gross.<\/p>\n

So, recently clapping back via\u00a0Decider, Pat quipped, \u201cHe\u2019s very irrelevant. I said four words\u2014there goes the neighborhood \u2014 and he went on, and he did a whole program about me. It was just a comment in passing.\u201d Nevertheless, Patricia stands by her original stance, saying, \u201cWe just don\u2019t need any more\u00a0felons in Charleston.\u201d<\/p>\n

Todd and his wife,\u00a0Julie Chrisley, were indicted on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States back in 2019. They swore they were innocent. Yet, they were still found guilty. In all,\u00a0The Chrisleys: Back to Reality\u00a0stars received a combined 19 years in federal prison, but thanks to their pardons, they walked out of their prison cells for good in May of this year.<\/p>\n

And now, Ms. Pat wants them to heed her words and not walk toward\u00a0her in Charleston.<\/p>\n

Southern Charm Season 11 premieres on November 19, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET\/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock, or Hayu in Canada, the UK, and Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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