- I've been trying to be a better mom to Jace
and I know the best way to do that is if I go to college.
So today, I'm going to register for classes.
(Jace screams)
Here you go.
Now that summer's over, my job ended
and I didn't save enough money to pay for school.
My mom can't afford it,
so I have to figure out how to apply for financial aid.
- Mama.
- [Barbara] Jenelle, where you going?
- I'm going up to the college
and do financial aid and registration.
- When you do this financial aid
make sure,
shut the toilet so the baby doesn't drown, now.
- [Jenelle] Oh my god.
- [Barbara] Babies do that. - [Jenelle] Okay, okay, okay.
- When you go apply for it,
make sure that you have your car insurance,
you show them Jace's birth certificate,
and tell them that you live here,
but tell them that I don't support you.
Alright?
- [Jenelle] Yeah.
- [Barbara] So when am I gonna see you again?
Tomorrow morning?
Are you gonna spend the night with Kieffer?
- No Mom, I'm gonna come home and go straight to sleep.
God. - [Barbara] When, tonight?
- Yeah!
- [Barbara] Good.
(Jace babbles)
- Bye.
- Patty cake baker's men.
- You alright?
- I'm just sick of being yelled at.
Every time I come here, I'm yelled at.
That's it.
I'm yelled at every time.
I'm so sick of it.
- You do bring some of it on yourself.
- How about you try going home
and living with my mom for a couple (beep) days.
- Then you gotta figure something out, now don't you?
- Yeah, how?
'Cause I feel like I have no one.
No one loves me, no one cares about me.
And my mom never even tells me she loves me.
No one tells me they love me.
No one hugs me.
No one gives me-- - I've been telling you
I love you and hugging on you
all day. - I know, I know, I know.
You've been making me feel a whole lot better.
Before you came along, that's how it was.
I cried myself to sleep every night.
She calls me a slut, she calls me a whore all the time.
She thinks it doesn't hurt my feelings.
- Well the past is history and the future is a mystery
and now is a gift, that's why they call it the present.
- I just want to pack my (beep) and go,
but then I can't because I can't bring Jace with me.
(dramatic music)
- How's it going?
- Where's Jenelle?
- In her room.
- [Barbara] Jenelle.
Get out here.
- [Jenelle] Why?
- 'Cause you're get leaving!
- I'm leaving?
- Don't make me call the police.
'Cause you're out permanently.
I told you when you move back to this house
after I threw you out last time,
you had to change.
And you're worse than ever.
You're like the worst piece of (beep) mother.
Next time you come see your baby, call me
'cause you won't see him until you call.
I'm not gonna get stressed out over you no more!
(soft acoustic music)
(door slams)
(soft acoustic music)
- Might take a month or two months,
maybe even three months,
but I'll get him back.
'Cause I'm gonna get my own place
and then I'm gonna get Jace back.
Easy as that.
I will prove her wrong.
I will show her that I'm gonna be better
than she ever (beep) was.
(soft acoustic music)
(tires screech)
We've been at my mom's house a few days
and trying to get along with her is exhausting
and we need to take the edge off.
- [Jenelle] Dude, I'm so hungry.
- You're smoking weed in front of my house.
Don't you laugh at me
in my house-- - [Kieffer] I'm not laughing.
You Mr. Disrespectful.
- I'm not disrespecting you.
- You think it's funny?
Kieffer? - [Kieffer] No.
I'm not laughing. - You think it's funny?
Well I don't think it's funny.
Weed gets caught in my house, this baby's gone.
Gone!
You won't take care of your baby.
- You wouldn't let me anyway.
- And you know it's 'cause of this.
High, high.
You're both high.
This guy, he don't even work.
All he does is sit around.
- What you mean?
I get money.
- Get money?
Yeah, from Jenelle.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
You used all her money.
- I get a lot more money than you think I do.
- You're nothing but a damn lying hustler.
- This conversation really ain't going nowhere.
- This is why I went to court
and took custody of this baby.
- [Jenelle] Yep, okay.
Even though I have a job, I'm going to college.
I'm gonna make more money. - She just won't listen to me.
- I'm gonna have a bigger house than her,
I'm gonna have a nicer car than her.
- I want him out today.
- Okay well I'll be out, too.
- [Barbara] Well you can stay.
- Can I have a hug?
- Why does it always gotta come to this?
This guy is dragging you down, Jenelle.
He's another Andrew, don't you understand that?
He's only nice to get your money.
- Not really.
- Do you need therapy?
Don't you hear what I'm saying to you?
- [Jenelle] Nothing is going wrong.
- I love you.
You're always with these guys who are losers.
- Mom, he's not a loser.
You haven't gave him a chance.
Two months from now when you see how much money
and when he has a job and see how much income
is coming in from the both of us,
then you're gonna be like,
wow they are doing good.
- Then I will say that. - That's all I have to say.
- But you know what?
I don't want to see you dragged down again.
I love you.
I want you to do a good job in school and everything.
You don't care about me or nobody.
Only care about your damn boyfriend.
(sad acoustic music)
(sniffles)
(Jace cries)
What? Let her go.
(sad acoustic music)
- I know I have to face my mom,
but I don't know what I'm gonna say to her.
Right now, I just wanna see Jace
and get my financial aid check.
- What are you doing here?
- I came to see Jace.
- You came to see Jace?
You're not allowed here anymore.
Jenelle!
Jenelle.
- What, Mom?
- Give me back my credit cards.
- I don't have your credit cards, Mom.
- You used them.
- I don't have them. - Well where are they?
- Where's my financial aid check?
- I mailed it back.
- Mailed it back where?
- To the financial aid office.
- Why?
- Because you no longer live here.
- I needed that check to move out.
- Now I wanna talk about my credit cards.
- I don't have your credit cards.
- Well where are they?
- I don't have them.
- Why did you do this?
- I didn't-- - Why did you do this?
I let you come here with that (beep) skanky guy boyfriend.
Listen to me!
Get out!
Get out or I'll call the police!
I have custody over him. - Call the police.
- I will.
- And I'm gonna say all I wanna do is see my son.
That's all I wanna-- - Get out!
- (beep) do.
- You wanna (beep)-- - Leave me alone!
- Do you wanna steal from me?
- Leave me alone!
I just wanna see my son.
- You blow it every day.
Your life.
Your kid.
- How have I blown my life?
I'm going to college.
I have a (beep) job.
I go to school.
I do what I'm supposed to do.
All you're trying to do is ruin my life, that's it.
You kicked me out and I have nowhere to go
and you send my check off back to the college?
Ae you (beep) stupid?
What is wrong with you? - Stop screaming in his ear.
Well Jenelle, this is it.
You lived here and I thought me and you were getting along.
Now you went and you took all my credit cards
when I've done everything for you,
supported your child from day one,
and you have the balls to (beep) steal from me?
Well then now here's your clothes, go.
Go be homeless.
Jenelle, take your stuff with you now.
Take it.
- Well I'll be back for it.
(soft acoustic music)
Going to spend the night at my mom's
because I'm supposed to watch Jace
early tomorrow morning while she works,
so Gary's dropping me off
and then he's going to his parents' for the night.
Love you.
- [Gary] Love you, too.
(soft emotional music)
- [Barbara] Oh, there's Mommy.
Say hi, Mommy.
- Hey, Jace!
- I expect when I come home tomorrow
that my house is not destroyed.
- 'Kay.
- Because Jace gets into everything.
- Alright.
- Jace, how about something to eat?
Jace? (Jace whines)
How about something to eat?
Want cereal? (Jace whines)
How about chicken?
(Jace cries)
- Don't give that to him.
- Well you know, you just sit here
on your phone. - No, no, no.
- You know you're supposed to be visiting with him.
Why don't we get off the phone?
You can't help me one time? - Mom!
If you keep yelling at me, I'm going to leave.
- Oh, you're not gonna leave. - Stop!
(Jace whines)
- Yeah I'm looking for it, Jace honey.
I only got one bottle.
One.
So maybe you can help me look for it.
- I'm not gonna help you look for a bottle
that he shouldn't have.
- Well you know it's either give him a bottle of milk
or let him go hungry.
So what are you gonna do?
It's not in here.
Okay.
Why don't you give him a bath?
Could you do that while I'm looking for this?
(bath water runs)
- Okay, ready?
Up.
- The hell did you do with that stupid thing?
(phone line trills)
- [Gary] Hi.
- I'm about to have a friend come pick me up and leave
because my mom's being a bitch.
- I'm just going to hang out with my friends
for like 30 (beep) minutes.
- You can't leave, you gotta babysit.
- Oh my god.
Here we (bleep) go.
- I can't call out tomorrow. - I am going.
- I am going for 30 minutes!
Away from you!
- (beep) bitch.
- Nice, dry Jace-y.
(babbles)
- I don't want you watching him anyways
if you're (beep) high all the time.
- Right.
Whatever, dude. - Yeah.
So leave.
(Jace cries)
- You always do.
It's always about Jenelle. - Oh my (beep).
- Just leave, Jenelle.
I don't know.
(Jace cries)
Don't cry.
I've asked you to help me find the (beep) bottle,
now I gotta drag the kid out to the store!
- Why are you yelling?
- 'Cause I'm asking you to (beep)--
- You're crying over a (beep) bottle.
- I'm crying because you are so irresponsible.
- Okay then when I cry about me having custody of my son,
oh it doesn't matter how I feel, does it?
- You think you're gonna get custody of him?
- Oh it doesn't matter how depressed I am.
Doesn't matter how upset I am, does it?
No.
It matters if Barbara's (beep) happy.
(phone rings)
Oh my god.
- Let's go smoke some more weed.
I needed you to babysit.
You came to babysit-- - Yeah and I need you
to be my mother and his grandmother.
Don't say harsh comments to me like that.
- Well--
- Especially in front of my son.
- I've been taking care of him
since he's six weeks old.
- Shut the (beep) up!
How many times have I heard that?
Be original.
Hello?
I think Jace is having a good time.
- Worked out well.
Least he has someone to play with.
- I would really like him to come here
to go to gymnastics.
- I know but you know,
everything costs money.
- I know that, I would pay for it.
- Did you pay your rent?
- Not for August.
- You didn't pay August rent yet?
You can't wait 'til the end of the month to pay your rent.
- Well all they're gonna do is charge me
and it's gonna be $900 instead of 850.
50 more dollar difference,
it doesn't really matter.
- Well don't you think that--
- I mean I don't have the money right now,
so I can't do anything.
I need to pay my electricity and water and stuff
before I pay my actual rent.
That's more important 'cause I can't get
my electricity or my water shut off.
I need to have cable and internet.
I need my cell phone.
My bank account's negative 600.
(gasps)
'Cause me and him needed money,
so we kept withdrawing money.
- How can you be with no money?
- Because I'm stupid.
Okay listen, I was running out of money
'cause I was spending too much money on marijuana, honestly.
I mean Gary even told you how much I spent on marijuana,
which I don't know why he told you that anyway.
- You have no money so now you're like,
can't buy any marijuana.
- Yeah, I know.
So I'm staying clean.
- And now you're just gonna try to let somebody
help you budget your money?
Like me or a financial advisor or somebody?
- Yes, Mom.
- Please, Jenelle.
You know I'm good with money.
I just wanna teach you.
- I'm gonna start my car.
- Well that's good.
So now Kieffer's got this kind of income going.
Now you're gonna be 21 soon.
You really need to let either me or a financial advisor--
- I know this.
- [Barbara] Help you make a plan for your money.
- I know this.
- At this rate with the way you are now,
financially,
it's gonna take a long, long time, Jenelle,
to ever get custody back with Jace
or even have him come live with you.
- [Jenelle] I know this, Mom.
- Okay don't get mad.
- I know, but I hear this all the time.
- [Barbara] I know, but I'm trying to help you.
- You wanna stay at my house?
Yeah?
Tell Memay.
- I'm gonna stay at Mommy's house.
- As it stands now,
you're only seeing him once every three weeks or so.
- It's because I have no money for gas.
- [Barbara] I understand. - I can't drive my car.
- Well I can always bring him to you.
- You always say he's going to day care
and he doesn't need to be at my house during the week
and the on the weekend every-- - Jenelle.
- Every Saturday then you're like,
"Okay you can come get him.
"Okay you can come over."
- You know what?
Saturday, I watch him Saturday.
You want him Saturday?
You call me, I'll bring him up.
- So therefore you have no gas,
you call us up, you say,
"I'd like to see Jace."
- I know that, but what I'm saying
is that you only let me see him on Saturdays.
- Sundays.
- Oh wow, Sundays.
- Well I'm sorry, I gotta work.
I work. - Okay.
Then why are you complaining that I can't see him
if you're the one that's saying no?
- [Barbara] Don't play with that.
That's for the buggies. - Huh? Huh?
- [Jenelle's Stepfather] I just told you, Jenelle.
Call me in the morning on Saturday.
- [Jenelle] I know that. - I'll bring him up.
- But the only thing is I wanna see him more than Saturday
and she's says no during the week.
- Then get your life together and you know, because--
- Now it's get your life together.
First it's he has to be at day care,
then it's this, then it's that.
- [Jenelle's Stepfather] Let's just deal
with Saturdays, Jenelle--
- Now it's 'cause (bleep).
Now it's 'cause of me.
- [Jenelle's Stepfather] Jenelle.
Don't get mad.
Just do a Saturday to start. - [Barbara] No,
I'd rather have her take him on Sunday.
- [Tori] How are you doing?
- Good, I guess.
I mean, I'm in pain.
- [Tori] Oh my god, what happened?
- I got my appendix out.
Felt like my stomach was just expanding, I don't know.
It felt like it was getting more swollen
and swollen by the night.
So I go to the hospital and the doctor just, they're like,
"Oh yeah, your appendix needs to come out immediately."
- So they were about to rupture?
- [Jenelle] Yeah. - Basically.
- So yeah, while I was at the hospital,
I called my mom and told her about it.
She came down there.
My mom basically started arguing about taxes--
- While you're about to get surgery?
- Yeah right when I'm about to get surgery
and I was like,
"Can you please stop?" - Doesn't surprise me.
- And then she kept going and going and going,
and Nathan's like, "Barbara look.
"Just stop. She's about to go into surgery."
She ends up leaving later on.
Nathan stayed the whole night with me.
He helped me all day yesterday and my mom was like,
"I'm going to take off work,
"and me and Jace are going to come take care of you."
I said, "Okay."
And I told her, I said,
"Well Nathan got off work today,
"so he's gonna be there, too."
She goes, "Well I guess I just won't come, then."
- Just because he got off work to take care of you, too?
- I'm like, "Alright fine."
So she left me nasty voicemails and one of them was like,
actually I have the voicemails.
I'll let you listen. - Oh goodness.
- It's a sad, sad day.
Why is she like that towards him?
(phone rings) - Ha, that's funny.
- [Tori] Oh my god, that's weird.
- [Barbara] Hello?
- Hey.
- I've been sleeping.
I mean I feel good, but my stomach hurts.
So I can't walk, I have to eat slow.
Tori's taking care of me instead of Nathan today.
So what's still wrong about Nathan?
Nathan doesn't do any drugs, no nothing.
- [Tori] Just say okay, don't argue with her about it.
- Why does he make you suspicious about money?
- I don't pay his bills.
- I'm not talking with her.
I'm getting off the phone.
- I'm getting off the phone because you're dumb, Mom.
You're (beep) dumb.
(Barbara argues)
Listen to me!
(Barbara argues)
Not listening? I'm hanging the (beep) up.
- How you doing?
- [Jenelle] Thank you, Jace.
- Wanna get up here, buddy?
Climb up.
- But be careful for my stomach, I got a boo boo.
Anyways, you wanna see my stomach? You should.
- Oh that ain't nothing.
- You see my bellybutton?
- Be careful.
So are you worried about Courtland getting out of jail?
- Yeah.
- I'd be a little concerned.
- I mean there's nothing I can really do.
- [Nathan] Just get a restraining order--
- Yeah, but that's about it.
- Well you better lay low. - [Jenelle] Yep.
- I wouldn't be driving around
on the main streets of Myrtle Beach,
you know what I mean?
- Yep.
- 'Cause he knows that car.
Remember last time, he tried to run you off the road.
Nathan, you better not drive her car.
If he tries to run you off the road
and you get in an accident,
she's gonna lose her car and her insurance.
You understand?
- [Nathan] Yeah.
- No, seriously.
- Oh, I understand perfectly.
- It's like every car she gets,
the boyfriends wreck it.
- [Nathan] Yep because I'm a horrible guy like that,
right Barbara?
- Well, I'm just saying.
Like Kieffer- - I wanna show you something,
by the way.
Since I'm (beep) liar and a pretty boy, right?
- Well.
- Here's my checks.
- Oh good, you got your checks.
- Yeah, I did get my checks. - Good.
I don't wanna get her all upset,
but she had X amount of money
and paid for mostly everything for this house.
- I didn't pay anything?
Okay.
- Now you went and bought a new TV?
- Oh my god, Mom.
You're not gonna argue--
- [Barbara] I'm not gonna argue.
- About every little thing.
- [Barbara] I'm not gonna argue.
- I'm laying in bed-- - I'm not--
- And just got a surgery done.
So either you can be be positive
or you can get out of my house.
- I drove all this way and I'm leaving again.
Goodbye.
What a waste of my time.
Two (beep) damn hours I come up here!
- Stop yelling at me.
- Don't (beep) me.
- [Nathan] Okay leave, please.
- [Barbara] You know what?
(beep) you.
How do you like that? - That's great.
That's great.
Way to raise her child and teach him those words.
- I'm talking to you, I'm not talking to the baby.
- You don't think he hears things?
You're a great parent, you got your daughter on heroin.
Good job, Barbara.
- I didn't put a needle in her arm!
- But it's called parenting.
If you'd kept a short leash on her
and knew what she was doing--
- A short leash?
Don't tell me about ever raising my kids
'cause I was a single mother with three kids.
- Yeah and took her son away from her
and barely let him see her.
- Took her son away?
She is out partying her ass off with Tori!
Begged her to come home.
Begged her to come home to help me take care of Jace.
She was doing drugs.
She been doing drugs for years.
- Maybe she wouldn't have got pregnant in the first place
if you gave her a little bit of love.
- You have just met Jenelle.
You know I came to see you at the hospital,
couldn't even-- - Stop yelling at me!
Just go.
- You know, my feelings are hurt!
I take the day out of work to take care of you, me and Jace.
- You started the argument.
- I didn't start the argument.
- So therefore, you can leave.
Because you started it, you can leave.
- Alright, I'll leave.
It's a shame, Jace.
You can't visit with your kid again.
Come on, Jace.
Come on.
We're going home.
Mommy told me to leave, come on.
Nice mother!
Can't visit with your kid.
I ain't coming here no more.
No more.
And you, you better not disrespect (bleep) me again.
Son of a bitch.
- Have a great day.
(serious music)
- Oh, my couch is more comfortable than this.
- Nathan.
So we got the list done for the baby shower.
- Every item you want?
- [Barbara] Yes. - [Jenelle] Yeah.
- [Barbara] We got it all done.
- Even the Peg Perego car seat?
- What are you talking about a Pregolot car seat?
What's that?
- Peg Perego.
- [Barbara] You don't need a $200, $300 car seat.
- You don't need a 300 car seat.
- No you don't, because let me tell you this--
- Mom we're not buying it,
we're putting down on a list for the baby shower.
- Someone might buy it for us.
- You know what?
Why don't you, you better start growing up
and realizing that money-- - Hey.
Hey. - Is not gonna last forever.
- Hey. - You know what?
- Hey, I have a mother.
Thank you.
Thank you. - Listen.
Do you understand this?
- Why are we having, we're two adults
who take care of our own (beep).
- [Jenelle] Oh. - Right?
Your daughter's an adult, I'm an adult,
so you don't tell another adult how they should do things.
It's wrong and it's disrespectful.
- I'm stating facts-- - No.
- That's all. - You're telling me what to do
and nobody likes to be told what to do.
- Hey everyone, be quiet.
- I'm telling you that if you're with my daughter,
you will hear from me if you treat her wrong.
- Barbara when she has this baby and when we get married,
you know who her family's gonna be?
Me, Jace, and Kaiser.
That's our family.
My mom, my sisters-- - You will not ever--
- That's secondary. - Ever, ever get Jace--
- Secondary family. - If you keep on drinking
the way you do.
It will not happen.
- Jenelle, when's the last time I drank?
- Last night.
Night before.
- No, night before. - Oh, night before!
Did you remember calling me 3:00 in the morning?
- You mean your daughter?
How many glasses of wine do you drink a night?
Shut up.
- Uh, like none.
- [Nathan] You drink every night, you're an alcoholic!
- I don't drink every night!
- Yes you do!
- Are you at my house?
Are you at my house?
That's not me.
I do not drink every night. - [Jenelle] Both of you
just stop, dude. - Well I don't do that.
- Okay, well who cares?
Who's right, who's wrong?
- All she does is wanna fight 24/7.
She gets jealous because I'm with you.
Everything's my fault, according to you.
- I am not jealous of you.
I'm just saying that you hurt my daughter,
I will be after you.
I told you that day one when I met you.
And don't fight, just good.
Don't push him into the couch.
That was very mean.
(Jenelle sighs)
- Oh, hi.
(Gabriel cries)
Oh my god, dude.
- That's Jace!
He just walked by and pushed him into the couch.
- Okay, well when he's at my house
and he gets his own space-- - Good.
- He gets his own space.
- Well I don't care whether he gets his own space or not,
he's gotta learn to get along with kids.
And when he pushes Kaiser down,
and then what are you gonna say?
Oh, it's Kaiser's fault.
Well don't blame Gabriel,
'cause it isn't Gabriel's fault.
- You're favoriting Gabriel
because you can't handle Jace anymore.
- I'm getting worried about Jace.
- Well guess what Jace told me--
- You know what? - When we were in the car?
- He is bipolar. - He did not--
No he's not.
- You are bipolar.
- I am not bipolar!
Call up my (beep) doctor and ask her what I have.
I have panic disorder, not bipolar.
- You act like you're bipolar.
- So anyways.
It's like when they're in the room alone
and something happens,
you automatically go, "Jace! Why did you do that?"
- 'Cause I know Jace, what he does.
- Okay, I know Jace, too.
And guess what? - I know what Jace does
when I'm alone with him. - [Jenelle] Okay.
And guess what Jace tells me?
- What does he tell you?
- "Yes, I broke Memay's table because I was mad,
"so I kicked it."
He will admit to me what he does wrong
because he knows I'm not gonna yell and scream at his face.
You, you scream and yell at him.
- Oh my god, Jenelle. - So guess what?
- Shut up!
- So then he feels the need-- - I'm not doing this, either.
- He feels the need to yell at you
when he feels the need--
- You don't live here!
You never raised him!
Don't tell me what to do!
- When you used to yell at me,
I would lie to you because I didn't wanna get yelled at!
But when he comes to me with his problems,
I speak and talk to him rationally.
I don't yell and jump down his throat like you do.
- You're not here!
So don't tell me what I do.
- I see it.
- I am not gonna have-- - You know you yell
all the time. - This four-year-old kid
destroy my house, destroy my walls,
destroy everything I own like you did.
Ain't happening.
It's not happening.
- Well guess what?
Stop treating him like he's some (beep) hellion.
- What happens at school?
Am I at school? No!
He's kicking kids in the head.
- Okay, and guess what?
They kick each other.
It's a boy thing, it's not just Jace.
You always think it's just Jace.
- Well it was Just Jace. - It's not.
When he's with me, he's completely fine.
- Go get Jace, leave.
(dramatic music)
- Can you call her Memay and not Mom?
- Because she's not your mom, I'm your mom.
Okay?
Thank you.
- Mama.
Mama.
- I texted my mom about my fight with Nathan
and let her know he isn't coming
to set up for the baby shower.
Alright, go on. - [Barbara] Hi, Jenelle.
- [Jenelle] Inside.
- [Barbara] Jenelle.
So, what happened with Nathan?
- Nathan has been arguing with me
the whole time that I've been home,
and I told him, I said,
"If you don't come with me to set up for this baby shower,
"I am going to be highly pissed off
"that this is our son and you're not gonna go
"because you're mad at me."
- I don't understand it.
Is he doing his testosterone?
- God, I'm sick of hearing you say that.
- 'Cause he seems like he's in a steroid rage or something.
Doesn't he understand you're nine months pregnant?
And that you have every right in the world
to be miserable and bitchy at this point?
Are you talking to me or are you gonna be on your phone?
- Yes, Mom.
I'm checking something, okay?
- You know, well why'd you bother coming?
- Oh my god, dude. - You know what?
- If you're gonna yell at me after he just yelled at me
(Barbara yells)
and everyone's gonna yell at me,
then I'm gonna (beep) leave
because I'm sick of being (beep) yelled at.
- I'm talking to you! - I'm leaving.
- Don't leave!
- Leave me alone!
- Don't leave. - Leave me alone!
- Don't leave, Jenelle.
(dramatic music)
(tires squeal)
Don't do that!
Watch it, the van.
What is wrong, Jace?
(Jace cries)
She better get her ass back here, 'cause guess what?
If Mommy doesn't come back here,
guess what's gonna happen?
(Jace cries) I'm gonna cancel
the freakin' shower.
What's the matter?
(Jace whines)
(phone line trills)
- [Nathan] Hello?
- Nathan.
What is wrong with you?
What is wrong with you?
You know, Jenelle just (beep) left here.
The whole (beep) baby shower I gotta set up by myself
because you're a (beep) ass (beep).
(beep) hang up on me.
(phone line trills)
- [Voicemail] Your call has been forwarded to an--
- Oh my god.
I'm so upset.
Why do we gotta go through all this
crazy (beep) all the time?
(soft acoustic music)
Oh well.
(soft acoustic music)
(upbeat piano music)
- I dropped Jace off at day care
and we're heading to my mom's
so I can talk to her about custody.
(upbeat piano music)
- [Barbara] Where's Kaiser?
Oh, right there.
So what's going on?
- So basically I wanna talk to you about
getting Jace back and the whole custody situation.
I feel that I've been stable for a while now
and I've proved to you that I can parent
and I think it's getting close to the time
to where he should be coming with me.
And I just wanna know when can we take these steps
because you've been so adamant about
his schooling up here and stuff.
But it's like I can't wait forever to get him back.
- Jace has been with me since he's been born.
We can't just say to Jace, you gotta move back to Mommy's
because it might be devastating for him.
I know you've been doing better, I know that.
I'm very proud of you for what you've been doing.
My main concern is this:
I do not wanna do anything to make him unhappy.
I don't wanna have to have him make a decision
to move to your house and be devastated
that he has to leave.
Like he's forced out.
You have to make sure
you get a better house with a yard, one.
Two, the school situation.
Three, Nathan's drinking.
- Don't talk about my drinking.
- Well it's an issue with me, Nathan.
- It's an issue with you, too, Barbara.
We talked about that.
- I don't have an issue.
I do not drink.
- It's ridiculous.
- I'm gonna tell you this,
Jace cannot live in that house
if you're drinking like you do.
- First of all, I don't drink when you think I drink.
- You could lose that baby.
- I've been staying out of this conversation
because, like I said, I wanna be nice to you,
I wanna respect you, but I'm here for Jenelle.
That's the only reason I'm here for her.
And it sounds like to me
you never wanna give her custody back.
And that's wrong. - I will,
but you know what?
You're part of the issue.
- She doesn't know how to talk to people
because she always fights.
- You done? Now let me finish.
- She always puts down people.
She always cusses. - I'm not putting you down.
I'm stating facts, Nathan.
- I'm stating facts, too, Barbara.
I'm done. - This is--
- [Nathan] I'll step out of the house, I'll take my child.
- My-- - Okay, I'm done.
- My kids have-- - I'm done!
- My kids have never-- - I'm done!
- Seen me crawling on the floor.
- [Nathan] I'm done! - Stop yelling.
Both of you, stop yelling - [Barbara] Here we go.
- I just feel like I'm always
caught in the middle between you two.
And it's like if I say anything to either of you
while you're yelling like that,
one of you are gonna get mad at me.
So I mean, I don't win either way.
I can't say nothing. - Hey I don't wanna
yell at him,
I'm trying to have a simple adult conversation with him.
- I just don't understand why he's preventing me
from getting my son back. - No, I didn't say that.
I'm trying to tell him and you
that it's a huge concern.
I just don't understand.
Every time I try to talk to Nathan,
he goes on the defense.
It's like he's not, why can't he just be a man
and talk like an adult without getting furious?
- Be a man?
You don't find that very disrespectful right there?
- What?
- To be a man?
- Well be a man and sit down and talk to me like a man
instead of running out the door like a two-year-old.
- I'm not going to have my child
around how you raise Jace.
- Jace is a perfectly happy, normal boy
who's very happy-- - Who was dropping the F-bomb
at three, four years old? - No that's not from me, baby.
- I don't wanna fight with you anymore.
You're Jenelle's mother.
I told you that before. - [Barbara] Well I don't
wanna fight, but I'm concerned.
- I understand your concern,
but I will admit when I do drink,
which is a very rare time,
I do drink a little bit too much
and that's why I try to cut down.
That's why I don't drink very often.
- [Barbara] Jenelle's straight.
You both gotta not drink and gotta--
- Not only you're protective over Jace,
but you're really protective over her, too.
I understand.
- Me and Jenelle have been down to hell and back.
You know?
I did not, never wanted to take custody of Jace.
It was your decision, not mine.
- I was forced to sign custody over.
- You were doing drugs.
- I did drugs because I didn't have my son back
because I was giving up.
And I said (beep) it.
- You know what you did?
You were going for days and weeks at a time.
- [Jenelle] You didn't give me any chance to even step up.
- [Barbara] I wouldn't have taken Jace away
if I thought he was safe.
- Yeah, okay.
- I don't think we have to go back to court.
There's no sense in doing that.
I can just sign off on it.
- Yeah but it's just when, that's all.
- Well I said, "Look up schools, get a house."
- So basically you'll let me have Jace back
in a couple months?
- Let him do this charter school this year
and let's work it.
We can transition him over a year back to you.
- Okay.
- You know the whole bottom line to this is, Jenelle?
You're a grown up.
Finally, I can see it.
We're gonna work on this as a plan
'cause I'll miss him terribly,
but he's not my child.
He's my grandson.
- It's not like you're never gonna see him again.
- It'd break my heart to have him feel like I abandoned him
or like I just threw him away.
- No, I don't think he'll think that.
- It's like I can't believe we finally came this far.
'Cause I really, I can't believe it.
I thought you were gonna be dead.
So now, everything's good.
(slow piano music)
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