Seems that Maci Bookout McKinney and former fiancé Ryan Edwards are teeing off a whole new chapter. And even she never imagined she'd be discussing husband Taylor McKinney 's recent golf day with Ryan and their 15-year-old son Bentley on the season two premiere of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter May 30. "Especially the last five years, I would have thought you lost your mind," she admitted in an exclusive interview with E! News.
"Like, you're living in la-la land, it's never going to happen." But somewhere between Maci and Taylor's on-air 2021 showdown with Ryan's parents Jen Edwards and Larry Edwards and the start of filming last fall, they found a way to navigate themselves out of the rough. "All of us involved have done a whole lot of work," noted Maci, 32, also mom to Jayde , 9, and Maverick , 8, with Taylor.
"We have just honestly worked on ourselves. So, naturally, it's all coming together." Having been inspired to put in the work after Bentley expressed last year how much it affected him that his mom and dad couldn't get along, they've all managed to stay on that metaphorical green.
In the past, a simple miscommunication could easily devolve into a blowup. Now, Maci explained , "If one of us has a question, we are not afraid to call each other and the other pick up the phone. It's like, 'What do you want to do about that? How do you want to handle this?' The communication is just so much more respectful.
And I would say it's just easier." Even more crucially, it's taking .
