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Has Ryan Edwards really turned over a brand new, accountable leaf?
This query has been posed in regards to the actuality star many occasions over time, after all.
HOWEVER, Edwards seemingly took a serious step in a really optimistic course on the April 17 episode of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter… because the 37-year-old had a trustworthy dialog together with his and ex Maci Bookout’s 16-year-old son, Bentley.
To place it bluntly, Edwards has been an absentee guardian for a majority of this baby’s life.
The MTV character has been arrested on numerous occasions and checked into rehab greater than as soon as to battle substance abuse points.
By way of a court docket submitting from earlier this 12 months, there’s really an official document of simply how little time Ryan spends together with his children.
However maybe the previous will NOT be prologue in his case?
“You already know for the longest, I’ve not been in an excellent place,” Edwards advised Bentlty in the course of the emotional second on the aforementioned episode. “For some time, your momma didn’t need us collectively in any respect. It made me mad, however I don’t blame her now.”
Certainly, earlier on the identical installment, Bookout — who additionally shares children Jayde, 9, and Maverick, 8, with husband Taylor McKinney — admitted that Bentley’s newest go to to Ryan and his fiancée Amanda Conner’s dwelling was the “first time” she and her 16-year-old felt “glad” in regards to the association.
She actually hasn’t stated something like that previously.
Edwards, for his half, shares a baby girl with Conner… in addition to children Jagger, 10, and Stella, 5, with ex Mackenzie Standifer.
He stated on air that he resented Maci for having stored Bentley away from him amid his dependancy struggles, however he now understands the place she was coming from much more than he did previously.
He’s additionally happy with the place he and his son stand nowadays.
It may very well be A LOT worse, that’s for sure.
“16 years later, right here we’re,” Edwards stated on the Teen Mother episode. “I’m sorry it took this lengthy, nevertheless it’s higher now than ever. I’d like to spend time with you everytime you wish to come over right here. I do know we ain’t been in a position to, however I might take pleasure in that.”
Wow, huh?
Hopefully clear and sober at this level, the mechanic emphasised that he’ll proceed to work on himself to higher his relationship together with his son, including:
“There have been occasions I wasn’t there for you, however I hope I’m displaying you it’s somewhat completely different.”
The duo ended this alternate by every saying they beloved the opposite.
Nearly a 12 months in the past, Bookout detailed how she and her ex have been in a position to come to a extra peaceable co-parenting dynamic after a complete lot of battle and pressure.
“All of us concerned have performed a complete lot of labor,” the 33-year previous advised E! Information final June.
“We’ve simply truthfully labored on ourselves. So, naturally, it’s all coming collectively.”
For the sake of Bentley and different children in Ryan’s life, we’re so very, very thrilled to listen to this.
