Amber Portwood Reacts to Daughter Leah Not Wanting Her Around & Rejecting Her Birthday Gift on ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter’: “It’s Disrespect!”

Amber Portwood was not happy watching the most-recent episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter and, over the weekend, she took to — where else?— TikTok Live to express how she felt watching her daughter Leah admit that she didn’t want the birthday gift Amber had sent for her 16th birthday. (During the episode, Leah also discussed the “abandonment issues” she says stem from Amber not being present in her life growing up.) 

As fans saw, Leah– who is estranged from Amber— celebrated her 16th birthday, without her mother present. After specifically telling her stepmom Kristina that she didn’t want Mom Amber at her birthday dinner again (given the hijinks that Amber pulled at her birthday dinner the year before), Leah proceeded to reject the gift and card Amber sent, and then tell the cameras that she was about eight years old when she realized “Amber” was not there for her consistently, leading to her having “abandonment issues.”

Amber— who announced last month that she had quit ‘Next Chapter’— told her TikTok Live followers that she was upset by what Leah said and did on the episode.

“I’m feeling emotional right when it comes to what I just saw,” Amber said. 

When someone in the Live commented that Leah created valid boundaries regarding her relationship with Amber, the ‘Teen Mom’ star disagreed.

“No, she didn’t,” Amber said. “Those aren’t boundaries. I’m her mother. It’s disrespect.”

Amber then recapped the reasons she feels she was a good mother to Leah.

“What? Did I beat her? Is that what I did? Is that what you’re saying,” Amber said, before arguing with someone who suggested “someone had to hold her accountable.”

“Nobody’s told me to be accountable, darling!” an angry Amber lashed out. “Did you do time in prison? Did you do my time in prison?”

“Did you sit and talk with my daughter and sit down with her and let her know that you were an addict and everything that happened to you?” Amber continued. “Were you…in my shoes when I had to sit there and go through everything I had to do?! Were you paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to be in your children’s lives?”

“I’ve done nothing in my life, darling, then try to be in my daughter’s life and was pushed out like a cancer!” Amber said.

During her first Live, Amber appeared to be angry at her daughter, as well as Leah’s dad Gary Shirley for what played out on screen. However, in another TikTok Live done over the weekend, Amber’s demeanor changed and she was extremely emotional, sobbing into the TikTok camera about the episode.

“I didn’t see what her reaction was,” Amber said of the gift she sent for Leah. “It’s the only thing in my life, guys, that hurts me. I just want to see my daughter. It’s so hard. I don’t want to make this [Live] for anybody else.”

A tearful Amber cried when one person on the Live told her that she should have tried harder to be in Leah’s life.

“I promise. My hand on the Bible, I did. [I was] consistent, I promise,” Amber said. “I did exactly what she wanted. I came when the cameras weren’t there, when she brought that up. I promise.

“I’ve got so many pictures and so many videos that I’ve never posted of us together,” Amber said while sobbing. “Just to keep her from not feeling embarrassed.”

Amber then appeared to switch to talking to Leah directly, begging her not to “think certain things.”

“I’m so proud of you,” Amber told Leah, before basically taking credit for how Leah turned out. “You wouldn’t be who you are if it wasn’t for the fact that I was gone sometimes back then, baby. 

“I’ve changed so much and you haven’t been able to see it,” Amber insisted. “But I’ve never lied to you…You were my first love, the first time I’ve felt love. And if it takes this for you to see, since I can’t text you or call you or even … guys, there’s some legal stuff but I just can’t anymore.”

“Baby, I love you,” she said later in the Live. “I’m so sorry for what is going on. I hate it, but I meant everything I said to you [in your birthday letter]. I meant everything, baby. It sucks that I just can’t send you a text, but if I have to do it this way I will. I’m so sorry about my past, and my addiction.

“But the things that I just saw [on the show] killed me. Killed me in my soul,” Amber said. “…don’t ever think that I did anything on purpose.”

When one follower stated that blubbering on TikTok to “Leah” will make their situation worse, Amber denied that’s the case.

“No, it won’t make it worse, because it’s the truth,” she responded.  “[Leah] deserves [to see] it. She sees everything else, hun…all the negative, all the bad…just remember though, there’s no other way for me.”

Amber then accused fans of pushing Leah “farther away” from her by suggesting that her TikTok Live rants are embarrassing Leah.

“She sees what you say, she listens to it,” Amber said, adding that she has tried just showing up to Gary’s house to try to talk to Leah. 

“I’ll pray for the day that I’m not pushed away because somebody was angry at me. I can’t do anything about that, though, from the past,” Amber said, adding that she feels she “owned up” to Leah about her actions that made Leah cut her off. 

“Guys, I kept so many things private between me and her,” Amber insisted. “…Guy, this is pain as a mom for her daughter.”

She then seemed to switch to talking to Gary.