There was a time when Maci Bookout’s contentious co-parenting relationship with Ryan Edwards offered a lot of the drama on Teen Mother OG.
Lengthy after Maci and Ryan went their separate methods romantically, the exes continued to conflict, with their son Bentley regularly caught within the center.
However that each one got here to an finish when Maci acquired Ryan fired from the present again in March of 2021.
Not solely did Maci persuade MTV to kick Ryan to the curb, she acquired his entire household fired, as nicely.
And identical to that, the travails of Ryan, his spouse Mackenzie, and his beloved mother and father Jen and Larry have been fully scrubbed from the airwaves.
Lately, Maci is continuous to inform her story on Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter — and evidently she’s made a clear break with the Edwards crew.
Actually, Maci says she hasn’t spoken to Ryan in years — this, even supposing the 2 of them have a 13-year-old son collectively.
“I believe being on TV and doing this present was not the principle portion of why our relationship was at all times so poisonous,” Maci mentioned in a current interview with Web page Six.
“However … there was no strategy to create room or area for us to heal or transfer on or recover from some issues as a result of we’re continually having to speak about one another once we don’t even discuss to one another,” she added.
“What’s the purpose in that? So yeah, secure to say it’s an enormous aid [that he’s not on the show].”
Bookout says that having to entertain a “TV relationship” put a pressure on her relationship with Bentley’s dad.
And she or he claims that every little thing is best now that she merely has no contact with Ryan in any respect.
Edwards doesn’t have custody or visitation rights relating to Bentley, a incontrovertible fact that’s in all probability made it a lot simpler for Maci to chop ties fully.
Bentley nonetheless sees Ryan when he visits Jen and Larry, however Maci believes Edwards remains to be barely a presence in his son’s life.
“[Bentley] goes over to their home and can spend a weekend right here and there with them,” she says of Jen and Larry.
“Our relationship proper now, it’s positively not what it was earlier than. We’re at a spot the place we’re genuinely cordial. It’s not pretend,” Maci continues, throwing a little bit of shade at Ryan by including:
“Actually not making an attempt to be imply however, in my thoughts, you even have to point out up and be a mother or father to co-parent.”
Maci provides that it’s a aid to not be pressured to speak about Ryan on digicam anymore, as she typically felt that she was misrepresenting her life for the sake of the present.
“We have been discussing issues that, for me, weren’t an actual consider my on a regular basis life,” Maci says.
“That half was the one, like, ‘Why are we speaking about this?’ As a result of it’s a non-factor daily. I really feel like that’s a aid.”
Lately, Maci’s storylines largely concentrate on her life at house together with her husband, Taylor McKinney, and her three youngsters.
And the Teen Mother franchise is best off for it.
