Leah Messer interrupts her father after homophobic remarks and makes her daughters proud

While Teen Mom: The Next Chapter Due to the star’s estrangement from her father Gary, she reached out to him in a previous episode and told him he might be going to rehab. Speaking about a facility in California, he said he doesn’t like the state because “they’re too into f—— and q—–,” and dropped two homophobic slurs that both knife and shocked onlookers.

In Thursday’s new session, she spoke to one of her friends about what he said and revealed what she texted him after their conversation.

“You really hurt me and embarrassed me in front of everyone. Some of my best friends who have been there for me my entire life are gay,” she wrote. “If you knew something about me, you would know that.”

“But really you don’t know anything about me or what it’s like to be loved,” she added. “Breaks my heart, but neither does my responsibility. I did not ask to be brought into this world.”

She went on to tell her friend that as an “ally of the LGBTQ community,” she “felt in a way responsible for educating him.” Messer added that he never projected those beliefs onto her growing up, nor did her mother raise her that way. She also said she never wanted her own children to share those beliefs before revealing how she planned to get her daughters to Charleston Pride.

Later in the episode, Leah sat down with 12-year-old twins Aliannah and Aleeah ​​and shared with them about their father’s comments. “It made me angry because I didn’t raise you guys that way and your fathers didn’t raise you guys that way,” she said.

“I don’t want to be with someone who judges others,” Ali said, while Leah said she didn’t either. When Aleeah ​​asked if she would “cut him off,” referring to Leah’s father, Messer said, “Yes.”

“He hasn’t been here that long. He says he wants to be in our lives, but that includes our friends and family who are gay, and we are and will continue to be allies of the LGBTQ community,” she told her girls.

Messer then pointed out the importance of protesting, saying that “your own voice will be heard as an ally,” before asking the girls if they would like to go with her and their friends to the upcoming Pride celebration. They were both ecstatic and all three attended the parade with Messer’s youngest daughter, Addie.

“It was really important that we show our love and support,” Messer said in a confessional after the event.

“I have every faith that my daughters will look back on experiences like this and know why it matters going forward,” she continued. “I think they get to see how we show ourselves as allies of the LGBT community. They are being stripped of their rights, which shows how we stand up for equality as a family.”