1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
1, 2, 3, 4.
What kind of clothes do you need to get? 'Cause I want
to make sure I have my clothes.
What clothes do you need? 'Cause I'm ho--
Lunch for Nia, lunch for you.
Why aren't you wearing your ring?
Lunch for Nia, lunch for me?
I'm not wearing it anymore.
Why?
Just not.
Melissa still won't talk about her engagement,
and now she's not wearing her ring.
What is going on here?
Doesn't that hurt Greg's feelings then?
Just how we're doing it.
That's too bad.
It's a happy thing.
Yeah, like, I don't know why it's not--
Flash your ring and show it off, and--
I can try it out and see if I like it.
So that way when I get mine made,
I'll know if that's the way I want it.
You know, once I put my engagement ring on,
I don't think I ever took it off.
Did the girls say anything about it?
When you don't wear it, do they notice it?
My God.
Seriously.
I don't know why the other moms are so nosy.
I think sometimes it's jealousy.
I'm really not sure.
I'm happy in my life.
I think they need to worry about their children,
and I'll worry about mine.
I'm not going this weekend guys.
Abby, I'm sorry to interrupt you.
But these people are starting this again.
So my kids and I are leaving, and we're
not going this weekend.
Come on, Maddie.
Come on, Kenzie, we're leaving.
We're not coming this weekend.
Aw, Maddie is crying.
Maddie, we're really not going.
We're not going.
I knew it.
I knew that these other mothers would eventually
push Melissa too far.
Abby, tell them.
Tell them now.
Maddie, I know you want to do this.
I am not doing this.
Maddie can go without me.
If you're going to take care of her--
I will take care of her.
Are you staying, MacKenzie?
I will go get your clothes.
Greg--
Come on.
--please call your attorney.
These [bleep] are doing this again.
Thanks, Ab.
[maddie crying]
Come on.
All we were doing was asking.
She tells us everything.
Honestly, as I'm sitting here watching this rehearsal,
I'm thinking to myself, a year ago
when we first came on this team, Elliana literally was
dancing more than she is now.
She was in group pieces.
She had solos.
She had duets.
So yeah, I am very frustrated now.
I feel like she is going backwards.
I want her to be challenged.
Eliana has a very close friend back home who is a gender
nonconformist, and he's a little boy who is really speaking up
to raise an awareness to children who say, why do we
have to abide by social rules?
And I feel that Eliana is in a perfect place
to be able to say, I can teach you a lesson,
because I have experienced the bullying.
I was there for my friend, and I know what it's like when you
start to question who you are.
I don't feel right doing it.
OK.
OK, I tried.
I think you're going to have regrets.
And I think your friend is really
going to be disappointed.
OK, girls.
So listen up.
Hi, baby.
Yes, you can.
Keep zhuzhing, girls.
No, no, no.
[elliana cries]
No, no, don't cry.
Take a deep breath.
[exhales] OK, now tell me what you want to say.
What's going on?
So what are you asking me?
You want me to put you in the piece?
OK, baby.
OK, come here.
Let me borrow you for one second.
Megan, can you just come in.
Could you guys just give me two seconds?
And Gia, can I talk to you two girls for a second?
So is Ellie in there pleading her case
that she wants to dance, and so she'll be put in now?
She's not really pleading her case.
This is very real for her, and she walked a lot of times
with her friend who suffered a lot of bullying.
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
Bye.
Hey, are you headed out?
Yes, I have to dash.
I have a video swirling the swirls,
but it was on my schedule before Ashley called me.
Are you putting any little ones in the dance?
Your daughter had a really good conversation with me,
so Ellie will be in the piece.
Next time, I'll have Lilli screaming in the corner.
Hey, A, she was not crying.
And I heard Ellie say to you, Mom,
just tell me exactly what to say.
[gasps]
She said, Mom, just tell me exactly what to say.
That is a quote.
That is--
Yes, it is.
This is her real story.
You're a liar.
She is a liar.
That's why I am so upset.
You're lying.
What are you talking about?
You are insane.
You are literally insane.
Did you or did you not hear your daughter
say, just tell me what to say?
No, this is her real story.
Liar.
This is her real story.
Lying through her teeth.
Laurianne, this was not to get a dance.
This was actually to bring closure
to what she was feeling.
But do you hear how cuckoo for coco pebble pops you sound?
They're saying that she said to you,
mom, just tell me what to say.
That is not fly.
Laurianne, I know you have to go.
So thank you for coming, and I apologize for us.
Thank you.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Tomorrow, girls, tomorrow.
Stay in the-- [overlapping speech]
Oh, my. Oh, my.
Oh my God.
Well, that was a pretty low move.
You're a big liar.
Really?
Such a liar.
And no one believes you.
Interesting.
I don't believe you, and you--
You don't, but everybody else does.
That's scary.
I feel so sorry for your patients.
I'm not really worried about your assessment of me.
I don't deal with dissociative identity
disorder in my practice.
Oh, wow.
Oh, just got diagnosed.
You're just a bitch.
At least I'm only one bitch.
You're like, three bitches, all your different personalities.
Wow, wow.
With all your personalities, I got to call you
like, bitch one, two, three.
[laughing]
Will the real one please stand up?
What?
Mom.
She has feelings.
Really?
I'll sit here chair.
I don't care.
Oh, well, she's leaving.
She's leaving?
Yolanda?
I swear, I'm going to kill somebody.
[intense music]
I want to go out there too, but I'm
going to watch the kids.
[indistinct chatter]
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
[overlapping speech]
You stay away from me.
Calling 911.
You do it.
She just attacked me.
She literally went to my neck.
- You are going to jail. - No way.
Revel in it.
[upbeat music]
Everyone is so stressed out with this whole competing
against each other for solos at nationals.
I think the moms need a girls' night out.
We need to go have a cocktail and let off some steam
in the French Quarter.
New Orleans.
No, to winning nationals.
[overlapping speech]
To the French Quarter and Bourbon Street.
To nationals, to Bourbon Street, to a good night.
The stakes are high, and we will win.
What are you going to do with That what is that?
A voodoo doll.
Yeah, what are you going to use it for?
You can either like, do good things with it or bad.
Now, this is Cathy's scene.
So I'm assuming we're going to do bad.
Now, that's Yvette.
That's Cathy, the fat bottom girl.
Getting her right in the ass.
[chuckles, screeches]
I might have the Yvette doll.
Who do we think this one is?
It's Abby.
Look at it from a side view.
That side view.
Two fat bottom girls.
That's fat Abby.
I think you should throw her over.
Wait a minute.
It's Abby.
Anybody have any beads?
Well, you go to show your boobs to get beads.
Oh, no.
As your friend, I don't recommend that either.
I double dog dare you.
[screaming]
Does this hurt?
Cathy, don't do it.
Let's throw Abby over.
Woo!
[screaming]
OK, moms.
Put down your cocktails.
I just want to let you know, Asia
will be officially done with being
a competitive dancer on a team.
Oh, good for her.
Why?
She's just not going to--
the opportunity she has, she's just not
going to be with the team or competing
as a competitive dancer.
Asia's been offered amazing opportunities back in LA,
and I would be dumb not to take them.
And I think her days here at ALDC are finished.
So this weekend will be her last competition in her life?
Yeah.
At such a young age?
Well, congratulations.
That means--
Move over.
I'm moving in.
I'm shocked that Asia and Christy are leaving.
But what I'm more shocked about is that Leslie thinks that
by Christy leaving, that opens the door for her
to take her spot on the team.
I need another drink, so I'm going to meet
you guys down there with my--
Drinks are flowing.
You know, we have one or two, but Christy
has been drinking all day, and Leslie
has been drinking all night.
Christi is so full of herself.
She needs to just shut up and be grateful for what Abby
does for her and her child.
Sorry, I'm a real dance mom, and I will stand here.
Why are you yelling at us?
I'm not.
I'm talking to my friend. - Then you're yelling at her.
- Shush. - You had too much to drink.
You better settle it down.
Bitch.
No, stop, stop.
Stop. Stop.
I'll kick your ass.
Stop.
Sorry.
Don't hit me.
All right.
Last week, competition, failure.
Why are you blaming the kids when you were absent all week?
We didn't even know if you were going
to show up to the competition.
You showed up looking like a homeless woman.
You were not you last week.
And it concerned us, and it concerned the children.
We were there, but you were not there.
And there was never an explanation
as to why you weren't there.
And we want to make sure it doesn't happen again.
So you still don't have any answer as to why
you were not there last week?
Abby's kind of been acting crazy.
And then on the other side, Holly is pissed off.
It's going to be a rough day.
I can tell.
I don't owe you an explanation.
You do.
If I wasn't there, just guess it was a darn good reason.
If it's a darn good reason, why can't you share?
Gianna was there.
If I'm not there, I'll send somebody.
Abby is not doing her job.
What she did last week was wrong.
Abby ruined Nia's audition.
She took the character in a different direction,
which was her mother.
You by taking away her opportunity.
So if that makes you feel good, so be it.
Trying to protect your child and make her
not look like a complete fool.
Go back and look at your pictures of your personality
when you were a baby--
Others may not hold Abby accountable for our behavior,
but I do.
And I am not going to let Abby off the hook.
That was mean spirited, what you said.
You gave her an opportunity and took it away.
She's the only girl on this team that you ever take something
away from, the only one.
And let it not go unnoticed.
The other people see it.
That's kind of a boldfaced lie.
No, because there are dances, who pulls the dance?
When it's a duet, it's always pulled before Nia.
Nia, is something wrong?
So you have nothing to say to Nia about what you said?
I've done nothing.
Girls, you can go in the other room, and you can dance.
No.
I am not going to have this woman stand here
and lie about what she said.
I refuse to be in a room with this woman who is lying.
Good.
My integrity is worth more.
You are shallow, nasty.
Well, I'm not leaving the team.
So if that's what you want, I'm not your new Christi,
and I'm not the new Kelly.
And Mia is not Brooke, Paige or Chloe.
OK?
So you get your act together, and you stop telling lies.
You are a liar, an absolute liar.
And you sit there, and all of you women stand here.
And you are cowards.
I didn't-- I wasn't there.
You're a cowards.
[indistinct speech] You let this woman sit here and lie.
I've never seen Holly so upset in our whole relationship.
I'm sick and tired of it.
I'm sick, and I cannot take this anymore.
Not only do I deserve better, that little girl
deserves better.
She's a vicious and nasty vile woman.
None of those other mothers said a single word.
They let that woman tear my kid apart last week,
and you did the same thing today.
That woman is insane.
She's crazy.
All right.
So Aubrey, I just had a situation
with one of the moms, Holly, the woman
that called you behind my back.
It was ugly.
I wish I had it on videotape so I could send it to you.
Right, and that's what they do.
They lie, and they go to my friends and they use them.
It needs to be done the right way.
OK, all right, bye.
Aubrey O'day.
I think Holly needs to keep Abby in her pocket
and not cut her off because Abby has a lot of connections.
I mean, Holly is a dance mom.
What's she going to do for Nia?
So if I don't need her and she doesn't need me,
what the hell is she still doing here?
Well, because she's a part of this team.
But she doesn't need to be.
Everyone's replaceable.
I believe she wants to be.
I cannot believe that Holly acted like that.
It is really hard to feel like I have a team when
a mother that's been with me for years goes behind my back
and uses one of my friends.
So moms, I've had auditions, and I've
seen a lot of great talents.
So I think Kalani might be our right fit.
The whole package?
Right.
So Kalani has the package.
And I just said to Kalani in the other room,
I said, well, you might have to just do a solo.
She goes, well, I don't have a solo yet.
I'll just improv.
Turn the music on.
Brooke, I gave you how many opportunities last week
to do something on a chair, to get on it,
to get off it, to come up with something cool?
You stood on it.
Well, maybe you should replace her.
We don't want to do it anymore.
I don't want to do it.
And I'm tired of Abby throwing it in my face every week
that she's going to replace my kids.
Here, replace them.
Kalani, do you know the group dance?
Are you in the group dance?
OK, just checking.
I don't know.
Look at Brooke over there.
Didn't her mother just say to replace her?
Brooke, is your mother-- - We come as a team.
We're all leaving.
Brooke, is your mother speaking for you?
Do you not want to dance?
I just want your mother to quit speaking for you.
You're 15 years old.
Grow the hell up.
You know what, you shut the hell up.
See how she talks to me.
Abby, if you're not happy with my kid
because she doesn't sit here and smart mouth you
and say something back, we will leave.
That's fine.
Kelly, why-- I don't--
I'm just asking. - Don't even speak to me.
- I'm just asking. - Don't even speak to me.
Oh, why can't I speak to you?
Because I don't want to speak to you.
We're coming into this all new,
and so I just want to know what we're getting into.
A bully for a teacher.
Here's your costume.
Enjoy the dance.
Girls, let's go.
Kelly, we don't want you to go.
The girls-- you guys don't want to go.
Obviously she wants someone who has never danced here
to take both of my kids' place.
No, the kids want to dance.
No, you said--
Did you just sit here and say that my daughter
looks miserable, so maybe we should put Kalani in her place?
No, I never said that.
Yes, you most certainly did.
No, I didn't, Dingbat.
Listen, I said, Brooke, is your mother speaking for you?
Get your finger out of my face.
Girls, out the room.
Get off of me.
Out the room.
Girls, out of the room right now.
All of you, out of the room now.
Out of the room.
Maddie, you too.
All of you, out of the room.
She's crazy.
No, I'm not crazy.
You're eating my face.
Get out the room.
No, absolutely not.
Get away from me.
Call the police right now.
Go ahead.
You were coming at me.
Oh, my--
I was not looking.
I was over this way.
That's ridiculous.
You know what.
Call the police.
[girl crying]