Maci Bookout Comforts Ex Ryan Edwards After Finding Out He Was on ‘Suicide Watch’

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Maci Bookout will always care for her ex Ryan Edwards — particularly when he is dealing with significant mental health problems.In a preview clip for the Wednesday, July 19, episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Maci, 31, sits down with her troubled ex after finding out he was on “suicide watch” following an arrest. (Ryan, 35 — who shares 14-year-old son Bentley with Maci — has been arrested numerous times for drug possession as well as other legal charges.)“I never imagined we’d be in a place where this would be happening, but time and therapy — it does wonders,” Maci, whose rocky relationship with her ex has played out on MTV for more than a decade, tells the cameras in the clip.As an emotional Ryan discusses his struggles with Maci, she confronts him about his suicide ideation.“When you got arrested this last time, they said, ‘He has been on suicide watch.’ Then I was really worried,” she tells him. “You need to talk to somebody about that.”Ryan replies, “What do you tell somebody?”“That you’re struggling,” Maci says. “It would be devastating to a lot of people if you weren’t here.

I’d rather you be a pain in my ass, and be here, then not,” she quipped, as Ryan laughed but wiped away tears.She adds: “So next time, just call me.”The Teen Mom: The Next Chapter preview comes days after Maci exclusively told Us Weekly that Ryan has grown closer to Bentley since spending time in jail. (Ryan was sentenced to jail in April after being booked for a DUI, possession of a controlled substance and on a harassment charge against estranged wife Mackenzie Edwards, who filed for divorce in February.)“I think as crazy as it is, because he is in jail right now, he shows up and communicates with Bentley, I think, more consistently now