Amber Portwood, star of the original Teen Mom series on MTV, doesn't believe that her daughter, Leah, was left with any trauma from her tumultuous upbringing.
While live on her TikTok account, Amber Portwood opened up about the fact that Leah, who is now 16, doesn't want to be in contact with her but said that what she went through was worse than anything Leah experienced.
At one point in her livestream, a viewer mentioned that Amber Portwood had been "no contact" with her daughter for the past several months, which Amber denied.
"I was told to stay away," she told the viewer and went on to talk about the fact that she would like to have more of a relationship with Leah, who she co-parents with her ex Gary, but that Leah is currently in therapy and isn't interested in being in contact with her mother. "I want to have my daughter with me. I would love to have my daughter with me. I would love to do mom and daughter things. It's up to her. She doesn't want to be around me at the moment, while she's in therapy. I understand."
When a viewer said that Leah had already been through enough with her tumultuous upbringing on Teen Mom, which regularly featured fights between her parents while Leah was present, Amber Portwood denied that Leah could even remember anything, meaning that there was no way that she could be holding onto any trauma from her childhood.
"She doesn’t remember anything, guys. She said it on the show that she didn't remember anything bad," Amber Portwood told her TikTok live viewers and went on to say that the only thing that Leah knew about that part of her childhood that was being referenced by her followers came from watching clips of the original Teen Mom episodes.
Meanwhile, Leah has opened up about the fact that seeing old clips from Teen Mom of her parents fighting has definitely caused issues that follow Leah to this day.
"I do have, like, abandonment issues from her not being around," Leah Shirley said on an episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter and continued to say that she understands that there's a lot going on in her mother's life, but that her experiences growing up have made it hard for Leah not to worry that Gary's new wife, Kristina Shirley, will also leave her.
