Maci Bookout letting go of 'hate' for ex Ryan Edwards on 'Teen Mom Family Reunion' - Page Six

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December 26, 2022 | 3:12pm

Maci Bookout is letting spell of immoderate “hate” she whitethorn person for her ex Ryan Edwards connected Season 2 of MTV’s “Teen Mom Family Reunion.”

The world TV veteran, 31 — who shares lad Bentley, 14, with Edwards, 34 — tells Page Six during a virtual junket that she worked with beingness manager Dr. Cheyenne Bryant, aka “Coach B,” to acceptable the instauration for a “better” co-parenting relationship.

“Honestly, the main happening that made it much wide was the enactment that I had done connected myself and moving done my anger, my sometimes adjacent hate, conscionable moving done each of that and pin-pointing what’s worthy holding connected to and what’s worthy letting spell of,” Bookout explains.

“Getting to cognize the hard parts of excavation and Ryan’s narration arsenic co-parents, that makes it much comfy for me, I would say,” she elaborates. “Not easier, but possibly conscionable a small much comfortable.”

The sophomore installment of “Family Reunion” stars Bookout, Catelynn Lowell and Amber Portwood of “Teen Mom OG,” Briana DeJesus, Jade Cline and Ashley Jones of “Teen Mom 2” and Kayla Sessler and Kiaya Elliott of “Teen Mom Young & Pregnant.”

Some of the cast’s ain mothers travel on for the ride, bonding with their celebrated daughters and employing therapy techniques to flooded immoderate persisting issues.

Bookout’s mom, Sharon, was incapable to marque the travel to Oregon, giving the “Bulletproof” writer much clip to absorption connected repairing her fractured dynamic with Edwards.

The erstwhile couple, who made their world debut connected “16 & Pregnant” successful 2009, has faced a bid of obstacles implicit the past decade-plus successful the nationalist oculus — including a breached engagement, Ryan’s seeming disinterest successful fatherhood and his eventual conflict with addiction.

In September, Bookout told Page Six that she and Ryan “don’t person a relationship,” haven’t spoken for years and didn’t adjacent person each other’s compartment telephone numbers.

However, advancement has since been made.

“We bash person his telephone fig [now],” she reveals. “But immoderate different details, you’ll conscionable person to hold and see.”

Bookout further teases, “Everyone volition find retired what the presumption of everything is passim this season. But Coach B truly helped due to the fact that we were capable to find what relation I played successful the narration oregon deficiency of narration that Bentley and Ryan have.”

While the parent of 3 — who besides shares girl Jayde, 7, and lad Maverick, 6, with hubby Taylor McKinney — hopes to facilitate much connection with Edwards, she is relieved to beryllium escaped of immoderate obligations to bash truthful connected camera.

Edwards, who besides shares young children Jagger and Stella with woman Mackenzie Standifer, was fired from “Teen Mom OG” — which has since evolved into “Teen Mom: The Next Chapter” — successful March 2021.

Standifer, 25, and Edwards’ parents, Jen and Larry Edwards, were fixed the footwear arsenic well.

Their exits came aft a melodramatic reunion fight, involving Bookout, her spouse, McKinney, 33, and Bentley’s paternal grandparents, that aired a period later.

“There was nary mode to make country oregon abstraction for america to heal oregon determination connected oregon get implicit immoderate things due to the fact that we’re perpetually having to speech astir each different erstwhile we don’t adjacent talk to each other,” Bookout told Page Six earlier this year.

“What’s the constituent successful that? So yeah, harmless to accidental it’s a immense alleviation [that he’s not connected the show].”

“Teen Mom Family Reunion” Season 2 airs Tuesday, Jan. 3, astatine 8 p.m. ET connected MTV.

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