Ryan Edwards has had a troublesome relationship with son Bentley for years — but they're slowly operating to rebuild their bond.
On the Wednesday, October 4, episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Bentley, 14, spoke candidly with mother Maci Bookout about the place his relationship with his dad stands. (At the time the episode was once filmed, Ryan was in jail for harassing spouse Mackenzie Edwards and used to be waiting to peer if he would be furloughed to attend rehab, which used to be in the long run granted.)
“Do you assume there’s more get admission to to a relationship now than there was once earlier than?” Maci requested Bentley.
“Less difficult, I suppose, I don’t know,” the teen replied.
“Less of a chore? Less heavy?” Maci questioned, to which Bentley nodded.
“Feels that way for me too,” she answered.
In July, Maci exclusively informed Us Weekly that Ryan — then in prison — nonetheless “displays up and communicates with Bentley … more constantly now than he ever has, which is mind-blowing.”
While the mother-son conversation on Wednesday’s episode used to be a tricky one, Bentley infused the dialogue with a little humor.
“Proud of you, friend. You’re doin’ just right,” Maci, who also shares daughter Jayde, 7, and son Maverick, 6, with husband Taylor McKinney, instructed her eldest son.
“Yeah, you did a really good job [raising me],” Bentley quipped as Maci laughed and he winked on the camera.
Maci later sat down with Taylor to talk about the speculation of attending Ryan’s court listening to.
“I feel sorry about how I treated him as an addict. Like, I felt like I couldn’t see the person. I simply felt poorly about it,” she defined, revealing that while she “on no account agree[s] with all the decisions he’s made,” she’s nonetheless going to show up for Ryan to provide him with moral reinforce.
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“By being there for him, it displays him that [I support him] No. 1, and No. 2, I think it presentations Bentley that I’m nonetheless recognizing the function that I play in the relationship that Bentley and Ryan have,” Maci persevered.
Ryan started his prison sentence in April after he was arrested for a DUI and easy possession of a managed substance — his third reserving this 12 months. He was once released to rehab in July. One month later, Bentley shared a photo of himself with Ryan, Taylor and Ryan’s dad, Larry Edwards, all enjoying golfing together. “Family,” Bentley captioned the Instagram picture.
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