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.
Despite Leah opening up about the issues that have followed her into her teen years, Amber Portwood went on to insist on her own TikTok that Leah definitely wasn't traumatized from her difficult childhood, but she does acknowledge that Leah wasn't raised in the best situation.
"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," Amber Portwood said on her TikTok live after denying that Leah has any trauma.
The Teen Mom star went on to say that she's had a harder life than the dissenters in her TikTok live chat, but said that she's not concerned with what any of them are saying about her and said that she instead listens to what her children, estranged daughter Leah and son James, say about her instead.
"The day my son wants to tell me that I'm not there for him, that's what my son will tell me. The day my daughter wants to say she's pissed off at me because of my past, and me being a drug addict and having mental illnesses and going to prison and things like that, then that's what the f--- she's saying, right now," Amber said while battling against her TikTok followers in her livestream chat as they continued to tell her that she was denying Leah's trauma and making excuses for her behavior and absence during Leah's childhood.
The drama continues when Teen Mom: The Next Chapter airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.