Catelynn Lowell is struggling over where she stands with daughter Carly.
Since the adoption became closed amid the falling out between Catelynn, her husband Tyler Baltierra and Carly’s adoptive parents Teresa Davis and Brandon Davis, the Teen Mom star recently detailed the emotions she’s been experiencing.
“I hold onto so much anger with the whole Brandon and Teresa situation,” she told Tyler during the May 8 episode of Teen Mom. “And obviously we’re completely blocked. There’s no way that we can reach out to them.”
The 33-year-old continued, “Some days it affects me more days than other days. It just really depends. I mean, just last week—really bad day, crying all day. And other days it comes out angry where I’m like, ‘Why? Why is this happening? I don’t understand.’”
In a follow up scene, Catelynn and Tyler talk through the situation with Dr. Drew Pinsky, who asks whether the couple thinks airing their grievances online has impacted Carly.
“I don’t know, I’ve asked,” Catelynn said. “Of course, I’m blocked. So I’m kind of just left in the dark. And I guess where I come at it now is just putting the facts out there and my feelings as a birth mom. Because if she has a chance of seeing it and it wasn’t us cutting contact and we don’t want this, then I feel like she deserves to know the truth.”
Tyler, for his part, echoed his wife’s frustrations about being cut off from their daughter, now 15.
Instagram/Catelynn Lowell
“When we originally agreed and picked them as parents,” he explained of Brandon and Teresa, “we picked them for the sake of having an open adoption so that way this stuff wouldn’t be really an issue. Where if Carly had any issues, she could come contact us and she’d have access to us.”
Catelynn—who is also mom to kids Nova, 10, Vaeda, 6, and Rya, 3, with Tyler—noted the couple “verbally agreed” to keeping the adoption open.
And when Dr. Drew offered to reach out to Teresa and Brandon on Catelynn and Tyler’s behalf, the couple agreed.
Instagram/Tyler Baltierra
“We’re fine with anyone reaching out to them,” Tyler noted. “We just want to make sure that she has the truth, which we believe she deserves to have."
