mother's speaking for you?"
- Get your finger out of my face.
- Girls, out the room, girls, out the room!
[all clamoring] - Get off of me!
Get away from me! - Out the room!
- Girls! Out of the room!
- Who do you think you are? - Girls, out the room.
- You are nuts. - No, you're nuts.
- Now, out of the room. - She's crazy.
- No, I'm not crazy. You're eating my face!
- Wow. - I forgot how intense that was.
- Yeah, I've seen that clip a million times.
And it's always just on social media and like...
- It's easier to cope with when you just laugh about it.
- When you laugh off. - Yeah.
- But like trying to be serious, it's like.
- Yeah, you see, this is how you can tell
it really affected her, 'cause she doesn't cry
and she's gonna cry again.
Oh. - Aw, Brooke.
Don't cry.
[emotive music]
- It's very unfair of what happened to you.
- We never really talked about it, no.
It was just kind of like it just happened
and it was easier just not to talk about it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Do you feel bad about like, what,
like if you could go back, would you do it differently or?
- Yes, I would. - Yes.
- I feel like that's my fault that...
- [Jill] So did the--
- We left because I lost my temper,
but I pretty much felt guilty
for the past 10 years of my life since that day happened.
- Aw, Brooke, don't cry. [Brooke crying]
[emotive music]
- It's still not easy to watch.
No one should ever have to see their mother in that state.
- Paige and Chloe had waited for that duet
since they were two-years-old.
Finally, 10 years later.
- Yeah. - They got a duet.
Abby knew, she was pulling in her ringer.
- Yeah. - Which is Maddie,
to compete against the duet.
And then she pulled you in
knowing that you're gonna beat them.
And that was my problem.
That's the whole reason the fight started.
- [Abby] I wanna put my best foot forward,
and that foot belongs to a girl named Kalani.
Sorry, kids. That's show business.
- Please welcome, Two Sapphires.
[audience cheering]
- [Bryan] Kalani and Kira are backstage.
What do you think you would like to know
from Kira and Kalani?
- I don't know much about like, Kalani
and Kira's past with Abby,
but I guess I just wonder
if they knew that they were replacing someone on the team
or I guess that--
- Or if they were just there to do a dance
and it just so happened. - To blow up.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- [Bryan] Can we get Kalani to the stage, please?
- They only said Kalani.
[Jess laughing]
Can y'all just call her?
I'm not doing this, like.
Come on. Come on, girl. - Let's go.
- Go sit on those cute white chairs.
- Bye, guys. - Don't miss us.
[pensive music]
- [Bryan] What do you wanna know, Brooke and Paige?
- So did you know that you were gonna replace us
or you were coming in to replace someone?
[suspenseful music]
- There was no replacement.
That was not even it at all.
I think that that's the big misconception.
There wasn't anything other than
I love to dance and Abby loved me
and if I was given the opportunity,
I was going to take it.
- I knew you were going to Dance Moms.
- Yeah. - Like, I knew that on AUDC
'cause Abby brought Maddie and Kenzie to AUDC
and said-- - I heard Abby say--
- Wait, wait, wait. Back up. I need, so Abby.
No, I'm being serious.
Brought Maddie. - And Kenzie to AUDC.
- Oh, I didn't know that.
- Please welcome, Maddie and her little sister, Mackenzie.
[audience cheering]
- Abby said to Maddie, "Say hi to your new duet partner."
And it was Kalani. - You heard this?
- I heard it, yes. I heard it. We all knew.
- Yes. - Kalani is an amazing dancer.
But like-- - Abby didn't teach her.
- Abby never taught her a day in her life
and she wanted her to come
and like beat her kids that have been with her
since they were two-years-old.
- If I would've known what was going on,
I probably would've said no.
But let's also remember that, do I have the chance to say no?
- No. - I'm 12-years-old
and if this mean lady is telling me
that I'm gonna go on stage and dance,
I'm gonna go out on stage and dance.
- You're gonna shake it out there.
- You know what I'm saying?
It was that situation that changed...
- But here's the thing. - The whole show basically.
- You also talked to the person
that changed your children's life and yours.
- You were at her house last night.
- Yeah, that bitch would never come 10 feet near me
if she did that to me.
- You just keep blaming it on Melissa.
- Melissa knew exactly what was going on.
She knew the history between you.
She knew that the whole reason why Kalani was coming in
was to beat you.
I think Abby did want you gone.
And she would do it at any cost. - [Jill] Absolutely.
- She knew what she was doing.
And Melissa knew what she was doing.
- But I don't think it's Kalani and Kira's fault
for wanting to dance and coming and playing the game
and being on the show, that it got heated like it did.
Like what you did is what you did.
It doesn't have anything to do with Kalani.
- For me, it was scary and I felt bad.
And I think I spent a lot of time really being like,
I can't believe I caused that.
- My mom and Abby's issues go way back.
- Abby's the one that knew what was going on.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- We knew it was not you, I promise you that.
- Yeah. And our mom, I don't think--
- Aww, I feel like we need to hug.
- I never blamed you.
- It never was like that, ever.
- Like I think if that didn't happen,
that they would probably still dance.
I mean, they would've been on the dance team at college
or something, and they do no dance.
None.
And that's sad to me.
'Cause that was their life, you know?
I just feel like it's all my fault.
- They don't see it how you see it.
- I mean, they changed my whole world.
I mean, I ended up getting divorced
and separated from my husband.
Just like, totally--
- Do you think that wouldn't have happened now?
- I don't think it would have.
- Shut it. - Mm-mm.
No. I was happy.
It just kinda changed me.
It did. - That's very sad.
- It did. - That is.
- [Jill] Are your kids happy now?
- I think so.
- [Jill] In their little lives that they have?
- I think so, yeah.
I'm gonna go check on my babies.
Hello, beautiful ladies.
- Hello. - Hello.
- I get to sit next to you, Kalani.
- Yeah. - In case I wanna...
- They did that on purpose.
- Knock ya out, huh?
- [JoJo] I got your back up.
- Brooke got emotional. - Why were you so upset?
- I danced for Abby when I was two-years-old
and she was like an important person in my life.
And seeing two really important people in my life,
physically fighting, it was a lot.
- And I think you guys fought all the time on the show,
but seeing a fight like that was different.
And it took it to a different level.
- I feel like
the way she treated you guys was unfair.
As a mom, the best thing for me to do for you guys
was to get you off the show. - Yeah.
- But then once this happened
and it happened the way it happened, I feel bad.
[dramatic music]
Because I feel like I ruined your life
and your dance career.
- I always said if that was me, if I was a mother,
I think I would've been 10 times worse than you
because I feel like I always know
that you were only protecting us.
- I have for the past 10 years,
been guilty every single day of my life.
- Why?
I think we all...
[reflective music]
[Paige murmurs]
- Like, I hear your TikTok, Brooke,
about you saying it was your last time dancing.
And if you would've known
it would've been your last time dancing,
you would've did it different.
But it was my fault that you weren't,
you never danced again.
- [Brooke] I could dance tomorrow, if I wanted.
- Come sit here. - Yeah, sit by your baby.
- Yeah, go sit by your children.
- I don't know, I just feel like
what I did totally changed your lives.
- For the better. - Yeah.
I got to do finally what I wanted to do.
Go to football games, go to school dances.
- And we were still able to have that
because of when we got off the show.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I hope you know that we know that, 100%.
- Yeah. - Do you, though?
- Yes. - Yes.
- [Kelly] Good. - Let's clap for the Highlands.
- We love you. - Yay!
- I feel like this is a reunion, but a family reunion.
- And therapy!
- Yeah. - And therapy.
[all chattering]
- My goodness, I need to go, like, redo my makeup, ladies.
[laughing]
- We love you. - Thank you for coming.
- We love you. - Come again soon.
- I didn't know it was gonna get this deep.
- Yeah, what the hell? What the hell?
- That was so sad. I can't see my mom,
the second I see my mom cry, ugh.
- I know.