Brandon and Teresa Davis adopted Carly when she was only a child, as proven on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant. Although they opted for an open adoption and allowed the Baltierras to have contact with Carly over time, these visits have since dramatically lowered, leaving Tyler and Catelynn questioning once they’ll be capable of see her once more.

On Thursday’s season finale of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter they had been advised Brandon and Teresa had a recording of Carly singing to share with them — however provided that the pair listened to it on digital camera. On the present, Dr. Drew Pinsky is the one who introduced the tune to them over Zoom, however, ultimately, the pair pushed again on listening to it — asking to have the ability to hear it with out cameras round first, as a result of it could be “very triggering” to hearken to.

“I wish to hearken to it in personal, it is emotional,” Catelynn advised Dr. Drew, regardless of him saying the recording was “so transferring.”

“I shared with Brandon and Teresa for a number of years, even in our final go to, how I might like to have a video of her singing. Not as soon as have they by no means given them to me, however now they will give them to me, on TV? I’ve requested for these issues,” a shocked Catelynn defined.

A slate on display then mentioned the Davises denied their request for a hyperlink to hearken to the tune privately.

“The entire thing concerning the tune is tremendous complicated to me as a result of we have had this entire difficulty from very early on in regards to the public being concerned in our adoption,” Tyler mentioned later within the episode. “At first they may see her face, after which she turned 4, they mentioned no extra face, simply the again of her head. It is gotten to a degree the place they do not even like us speaking about adoption in any respect. To go from that to now, abruptly, we wish to share her voice publicly, share her tune publicly.”

“To make you look good, you are gonna say, ‘Here is a tune Carly wished to present to you,’ after which in flip go, ‘however you may solely hearken to it on digital camera,’” Catelynn added of her confusion.

“The intention did not really feel good for me. Give me the present. The intention feels manipulative, I am sorry,” Tyler then mentioned. “The one factor I received from the dialog is Carly desires us to have this tune. I am so completely satisfied she’s wanting that.”

The entire state of affairs left Tyler saying he now regrets putting Carly up for adoption within the first place.

“We did not know that we might get financially steady, we did not know that we’d get assets to work on our psychological well being and get higher earlier than we introduced extra children on the planet,” he mentioned, as Catelynn admitted to having the identical thought generally as effectively.

As they each broke down in tears, Tyler appeared into the digital camera and mentioned, “If I needed to say something to Carly … I am so happy with you and I am sorry. I really like you and I miss you.” Added Catelynn: “We’d love to listen to Carly’s tune and I hope we get the possibility sometime, it could imply the world to hearken to that.”

A number of hours earlier than the episode even aired, Catelynn and Tyler took to Instagram to publish a letter they allegedly despatched Brandon and Teresa after they “refused to present us the present that our daughter wished us to have & advised us to not speak about adoption.”

“We by no means selected to not hearken to the tune! We had been truly tremendous excited, very touched, & could not wait to listen to it! However this was all thrown onto us out of nowhere with MTV’s arrange,” they defined, claiming it was MTV that recruited Dr. Drew since Brandon and Teresa would solely communicate with producers.

“The primary time Cate ever heard her sing previous to this, grew to become a really emotionally intense day. So recognizing this & wanting to arrange ourselves, all we requested was to first give us a second to pay attention in personal,” they continued. “That manner we might accumulate/course of ourselves a bit & then we might pay attention & play it on digital camera afterwards, like they wished.”

“So once we requested for the present that their daughter wished us to have, they mentioned the one technique to hear the present, is that if we listened to it on digital camera & that we weren’t truly allowed to have it personally,” they wrote. “We had been so confused & damage about why they might say they’ve this lovely present to present us, solely to by no means plan on actually giving it to us within the first place (though that’s what their daughter wished).”

They went on to name it “really heartbreaking to have one thing so particular simply dangled in entrance of us, to then have it ripped away like that.” They then reiterated that they will not be mentioning Carly or her adoptive dad and mom anymore.

Within the letter itself, the pair reiterated their need to listen to the tune privately first, as “it additionally brings up a number of emotions,” they usually wished to have the ability to “course of the inevitably intense emotions that come from it.”

They wrote that the state of affairs additionally “creates confusion” for them as a result of the Davises “get upset” once they discuss their adoption, however now wished to share “a really private tune” on TV. “I hope you perceive how that may make us really feel caught, confused, managed and manipulated, regardless if that was your intent or not,” they continued.

The pair then apologized if something they’ve ever mentioned has damage them or Carly, earlier than promising they are going to “at all times discuss adoption we simply will not discuss our personal adoption journey transferring ahead.”

“This reconciliation effort is not for you or for us… it is for Carly and what she wants and desires. We are the adults right here and it is our job to place all the things apart for the perfect curiosity of Carly,” they concluded. “Which requires open, trustworthy and clear communication. So we will hope transferring ahead, you’ll take part in that requirement.”