Amber Portwood Believes MTV Set Estranged Daughter Leah Shirley Up to Text Her: 'I Was Not Even Supposed to Film That Day

“This isn’t meant to hurt you,” OK! reported Shirley texted Portwood, “but I want to let you know that all these years it’s been my decision to not have a relationship with you and nobody has influenced my decision.”

Shirley noted “recent online activities” put her in a place where she needed to “communicate this” in order to put a boundary between her and her mother.

In response, Portwood absolutely lost it on camera, telling her daughter to "stop."

"You're 16, stop," she reiterated. "People see the disrespect by the way and they tell me how much you disrespect me, too. You're rude and there's no reason to be rude. You don't know what you are saying right now. You're young. You're 16. Be 16 and don't be in the middle of me and your father."

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In a recent TikTok Live appearance, Portwood reflected on the day she received the message.

“MTV came in my home,” she began. “I had not heard from Leah for I don’t know how long. She had been angry at me because of all the past things for over six months at that time, I had been completely blocked. All of a sudden, MTV comes in after months I didn’t even mess with them and I get a text that says… I looked at all of them…” The long-standing reality starlet claimed if she were to get “raw footage,” you would see her “cussing out everybody” and “telling them to get the f out of my house.”

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“Don’t dare try to sit there — come here and start ish between me and my daughter and having her text me because you guys are over there in her ear,” she continued. “I said, ‘I’m done with all of you.’ That was the last time I filmed.”

Portwood acknowledged she felt MTV knew that text was coming and came to film her response in real time. “I was not even supposed to really film that day too much of anything,” she added. “And all of a sudden, out of nowhere… magic happened and I got a text. And I’m excited, right? I’m thinking… first of all, my daughter’s 16. How would she know what happened from when she was a young child all the way up till a certain age?”

Shirley also had a conversation about her mother with Maci Bookout and Catelynn Lowell on the May 1 episode of the show, telling them she was “done” wanting a relationship with Portwood due to her being an inconsistent presence in her life and for how she’s blamed her dad, Gary Shirley, for their fractured relationship.

Leah also detailed that she hadn’t seen Amber in nine months and, aside from her reaching out once when Leah was diagnosed with asthma, she hadn’t attempted to contact her.

She added it’s “too much” to have Amber come in and out of her life and act like “everything’s perfect" when she's around.

“She tells me that she loves me and hugs me and stuff and I can’t do that,” Leah elaborated, calling it “fake.” “Like, you don’t text me, you don’t see me, and then when you do see me – for purposes of there being a camera in your face – you try to act like you’re the best mom ever.”

While she made it clear she “doesn’t hate” her mother, she claimed she’s dealing with her “own issues” at this time.