Maci Bookout Meets With Ryan Edwards’ New Girlfriend because the Exes Proceed to Mend Fences

On Thursday’s all-new Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, Maci received to know Ryan’s new girlfriend, Amanda, and whereas this was their first time actually attending to know one another, it wasn’t really their first assembly — with Maci revealing that Amanda was really there in the beginning of her 16 and Pregnant journey, making this a little bit of a full circle second.

“She was in my class. She was within the 16 and Pregnant episode,” Maci tells husband Taylor McKinney.

Whereas Amanda has had a little bit of previous — which features a stint in rehab and a legal file — Maci wished to provide her a good shake, with Amanda equally to decided to show herself as she integrates herself into Ryan’s life.

And all that could not be extra essential with Ryan engaged on his relationship with Maci, and their teenage son, Bentley, following his personal rehab keep — the place he met Amanda.

“Ryan and I’ve labored actually onerous during the last couple of years to have only a extra steady co-parenting relationship,” Maci tells the cameras earlier than heading to lunch with Amanda and Ryan’s mother Jen. “And remedy and Al-Anon has made me assured in creating new relationships. So, I’ll lunch.”

Throughout sit down, Maci mentioned how Amanda ended up on the grownup highschool, the place she was despatched because of getting pregnant as a teen, and what put Amanda on a path to sobriety following her personal robust up bringing.

“I received kicked out of public colleges simply from medication, and combating, and getting in bother, getting arrested at a younger age,” Amanda explains. “I do not know why it took so lengthy to be taught, however I went by means of the rringer. I am not going again on the market.”

Whereas she was sober for nearly two years earlier than her latest journey to rehab, Amanda tells Maci she relapsed when her mother and father died.

“My mother was associated to medication. She all the time in energetic dependancy, after which she began utilizing with me. I do not need to make out like she was a foul mother or father. She was younger. After which shortly after, my father received bone most cancers, Stage 4, and handed away,” she shared. “Which can also be not an excuse to return out, nevertheless it was very onerous.”

Amanda’s been sober, nevertheless, for over a 12 months, one thing Maci tells her she needs to be happy with — and her journey is one thing she does not choose her for.

“I would not need someone to evaluate me primarily based off something I’ve finished on my previous,” Maci says. “And that is been huge for me the previous few years — particularly with me and Ryan, identical to attempting to co-parent and attempting to get in a extra wholesome co-parenting relationship. I can not holding any of the bulls–t towards anyone.”

Whereas Amanda says she was admittedly nervous to reunite with Maci, there was an power there — for each events — that made them comfy assembly and opening the doorways for a relationship.

“I do know we have identified one another since highschool, and even reuniting with you, I used to be like, so nervous. I did not know the way your power was gonna be, however I used to be like, ‘She makes me really feel so comfy,” Amanda tells Maci.

“For me, I do not know, it was your power, however I simply really feel like you possibly can’t actually transfer ahead or begin wherever in the event you’re simply occupied with listening to different individuals,” Maci shares.

Ryan’s mother, in the meantime, says she was admittedly hesitant concerning the relationship and went as far to say as she did not need Ryan and Amanda so far — one thing Maci slyly agreed to — earlier than coming round to the thought.

“I perceive, if it was my son, I’d be like, ‘Maintain on.’ So I get it,” Amanda tells Jen and Maci, earlier than sharing the situations she and Ryan have positioned on their relationship. “We had a severe discuss it and he has instructed me and I’ve instructed him, ‘In case you relapse, you could depart, and vice versa,’ and we agreed upon that.”

With consistency and following what the pair each discovered of their packages, they’re hopeful they’ll make this relationship — and this huge, blended household — work.

Sustain with all of the drama when Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter airs Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on MTV.