Teen Mom: The Next Chapter fans were left stunned on Thursday night after watching Amber Portwood go “Portwood AF” on her daughter, Leah.
During Thursday’s season finale, Amber blasted her 16-year-old— as well as Leah’s dad Gary Shirley— in a tirade unleashed after Amber read a text message sent to her by Leah, informing her that no one had influenced her decision to cut ties with Amber. In the text, Leah also told Amber that her “recent online activities” played a part in Leah wanting to stay estranged from her mother.
Needless to say, Amber did not take kindly to Leah’s message, launching into a vicious rant in which she called Leah “rude” and demanded that her daughter stop disrespecting her. She called Gary— whom she has accused of influencing Leah into avoiding her— as well as other unsavory things— a “nasty man” and a “prick.”
In the jaw-dropping scene, a pajama-clad Amber is— of course— sitting in her bed when she receives a text from Leah. The message is very unexpected, since Leah had previously blocked Amber and not communicated with her in over a year. Amber is surprised…and then immediately becomes angry upon reading what Leah had sent her.
In her message, Leah tells her mom that she isn’t trying to hurt her, but wanted to let her know that “all these years it’s been my decision not to have a relationship with you and nobody has influenced my decision.”
Leah then made reference to Amber’s near-daily hijinks/rants on TikTok Live— in which Amber has accused Gary and his wife Kristina of everything from brainwashing Leah, to blackmail.
“I feel like recent online activities have put me in a place where I need to communicate this to put a boundary between us for myself,” Leah wrote to her mom.
Amber— obviously angry that she has been set up by MTV with this stunt— ignores the producer who is asking her questions and instead looks directly into the camera to speak straight to Leah and Gary.
“You have this piece of s**t, nasty man [Gary], and this is the kind of s**t that I get from my daughter who I love so much?!” Amber yells, before stating that Gary never let her do things with Leah or take her places like she’s allowed to do with her son, James (whom she shares with Andrew Glennon.)
“Ya nasty prick!” Amber yells to Gary.
“And Leah— stop! You’re 16. STOP!” Amber tells her daughter. “People see the disrespect, by the way, and they tell me how much you disrespect me too! STOP! You’re rude! There’s no reason to be rude.”
Amber continued to unleash on her daughter as she looked straight into the camera.
“You do not know what you are saying right now!” she tells Leah. “You’re young, be young! Be 16 and do not be in the middle of me and your father!”
During the episode, Leah told the cameras that her “last straw” before completely cutting Amber off came after she watched some of Amber’s (very frequent) TikTok Lives, which she has spoken about Gary, Amber, Kristina and the show.
“She was even talking about me some,” Leah said.
A clip of one of Amber’s TikTok Lives from March then played, showing Amber insisting that she hasn’t caused Leah any trauma, and that Leah isn’t actually ‘traumatized’ at all.
“So it’s not trauma. She doesn’t have trauma. Thank God,” she said. “She’s had a rough life, yeah. But guys, not everything is trauma. And it’s not denial. You can’t call that trauma. I didn’t beat her. She’s traumatized about what?! “No, she’s not traumatized because of me. I didn’t do anything to her like that. Who’s traumatized?!”
During another Live in March, Amber insisted that Leah wasn’t in therapy because of anything she’s done to the teen in her life.
During Thursday’s episode, Leah made it clear that she was over her mother’s TikTok Live shenanigans.
“I personally can’t handle it,” Leah said.
This week, Amber took to— where else?— TikTok Live to discuss the episode.
“That’s why you guys won’t see me on [the show] anymore. Because I wouldn’t give them what they wanted,” she insisted.
You can watch the full clip of the scene about Leah’s text below!
