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Has Ryan Edwards really turned over a brand new, accountable leaf?
This query has been posed concerning the actuality star many occasions over time, in fact.
HOWEVER, Edwards seemingly took a significant step in a really constructive 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.
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To place it bluntly, Edwards has been an absentee guardian for a majority of this little one’s life.
The MTV character has been arrested on quite a few events and checked into rehab greater than as soon as to battle substance abuse points.
Through a court docket submitting from earlier this yr, there’s truly an official file of simply how little time Ryan spends together with his youngsters.
However maybe the previous will NOT be prologue in his case?
“You know for the longest, I’ve not been in a good place,” Edwards advised Bentlty in the course of the emotional second on the aforementioned episode. “For a while, your momma didn’t want us together at all. It made me mad, but I don’t blame her now.”
Ryan Edwards makes an look right here on Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter. (Picture Credit score: MTV)
Certainly, earlier on the identical installment, Bookout — who additionally shares youngsters Jayde, 9, and Maverick, 8, with husband Taylor McKinney — admitted that Bentley’s newest go to to Ryan and his fiancée Amanda Conner’s house was the “first time” she and her 16-year-old felt “happy” concerning the association.
She actually hasn’t stated something like that previously.
Edwards, for his half, shares a child woman with Conner… in addition to youngsters Jagger, 10, and Stella, 5, with ex Mackenzie Standifer.
He stated on air that he resented Maci for having saved 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 glad with the place he and his son stand today.
It could possibly be A LOT worse, that’s for sure.
Ryan Edwards has had many brushes with the regulation. (Photograph Credit score: MTV)
“16 years later, here we are,” Edwards stated on the Teen Mother episode. “I’m sorry it took this long, but it’s better now than ever. I’d love to spend time with you whenever you want to come over here. I know we ain’t been able to, but I would enjoy that.”
Wow, huh?
Hopefully clear and sober at this level, the mechanic emphasised that he’ll proceed to work on himself to raised his relationship together with his son, including:
“There were times I wasn’t there for you, but I hope I’m showing you it’s a little different.”
The duo ended this trade by every saying they beloved the opposite.
Ryan consumed many drinks on digicam throughout his years as an MTV star. (Photograph Credit score: MTV)
Nearly a yr in the past, Bookout detailed how she and her ex had been capable of come to a extra peaceable co-parenting dynamic after a complete lot of battle and stress.
“We have just honestly worked on ourselves. So, naturally, it’s all coming together.”
For the sake of Bentley and different youngsters in Ryan’s life, we’re so very, very thrilled to listen to this.
