Maci breaks her silence to discuss the challenges that her son, who is 14 years old, has been through as a result of his father’s relapse.
Maci Bookout is having a tough time assisting her son, Bentley, who is 14 years old, through a challenging period in his life. Maci finds out that her ex and Bentley’s father, Ryan Edwards, has left treatment earlier than expected in the episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter that aired this week.
She expresses her displeasure with this piece of information by stating, “I do not concur with this choice. In light of his extensive past of drug misuse, I simply don’t see how it could possibly be a smart idea.
Maci also mentions that previous to Ryan and Bentley’s time spent in treatment being cut short, they had “the best relationship” that any of them had ever had.
After some time has passed, Maci breaks down in tears as she discusses the fact that Ryan has relapsed and overdosed, admitting that she had to break the news to a distraught Bentley.
“When I found out that Ryan had taken an excessive amount of drugs. Maci reveals that “that” was the very first time she experienced actual fear. “It was necessary to have that discussion with Bentley, and simply seeing that… I remember how it made me feel when I heard it, but Ryan is not my biological father. Everything is very challenging. Bentley experiences all of it a million times over, despite the fact that he is still a child.
Later on in the episode, Maci has a conversation with a friend who tells her that she heard Ryan was discovered unconscious with his vehicle running on the road. Her friend also claims that she heard Ryan was driving. Maci claims that in order to resuscitate her ex-boyfriend, paramedics administered two doses of the opioid overdose therapy called Narcan to him. However, he was not brought back to life until he was taken to the hospital.
“He’s in jail,” she confirms to him. “I believe that he believed that he might return home. being able to spend time with his children and parents, as well as having other healthy individuals around. My guess is that he believes he is unable to be seen. Indeed, that is the case.
Maci claims that Bentley is “just angry” as a result of the recent hardships that his father has been going through, and that this is how Bentley is experiencing as well.
“The way things have been going for the past four to five months, and how well things were going in spite of all this crap,” “I believe that Bentley is upset with you because he is saying things to the effect of, ‘Man, what potential you had,'” Maci continues.
After entering a guilty plea in April, Ryan was given a sentence of one year in prison for the crime of harassing Mackenzie Edwards, who was once his wife but they are no longer together.
According to the publications, Ryan was placed under custody once again the following month after being discovered “unconscious and unresponsive” in the driver’s seat of his vehicle. According to several sources, the arrest was made for simple possession of a controlled drug as well as driving under the influence of alcohol.
2009 was the year when 16 and Pregnant brought Maci to national prominence. After then, she became a regular on the reality television shows Teen Mom and Teen Mom OG. After her breakup with Ryan, she wed her current husband, Taylor McKinney, the following year (2016). The couple has a daughter named Jayde Carter, who is eight years old, and a boy named Maverick Reed, who is seven.
Regarding Ryan, he tied the knot with Mackenzie Standifer in the year 2017. They have a boy named Jagger Ryan, who is four years old, and a daughter named Stella Rhea, who is three. Since then, Mackenzie has submitted paperwork to begin the divorce process with Ryan.
MTV airs all new episodes of Teen Mom: The New Chapter every Wednesday night at 8 o’clock Eastern Time.