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Mackenzie and Ryan shared more details about their departure from MTV with E! News.
“[MTV wants] to take Maci’s word on how I’m doing,” Ryan said. “Maci’s said she’s not going to film unless I enter rehab again and quit the show. But I’m sober.”
“I know they did want five girls to begin with after Farrah left to sort of resemble Teen Mom 2,” Mackenzie claimed. “BUt they didn’t want to see another recovering addict storyline. So they’re writing us out of the show right now and making it seem like we dipped out on our baby, on Bentley and on everyone. And that’s just not the case.”
Ryan added, “They want to talk about us but they don’t want to pay us and film us.”
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However, Bentley and his grandparents will still be on the show.
“The show had been paying for my healthcare and for the baby so they could film the visits and then a week ago they let me know that would no longer be the case,” Mackenzie revealed. “They’re not going to film the birth. We’re not going to be on at all. Maci can’t speak to Ryan and Ryan can’t speak to Maci – that was a mutual decision. But she doesn’t know what’s going on in our lives.”
When asked whether she would consider filming again down the road, Mackenzie spilled, “If they don’t want to film now, then we don’t want to film later.”
Fans were quick to speak out with their reactions to this announcement. “Let’s see how long this marriage lasts when they don’t have this excess MTV money and Rhine has to dip into their real living money,” wrote NommyPie on reddit. They added, “Oh who am I kidding, [Ryan’s parents Jen and Larry] will hand over their paychecks to Rhine anyways.”