Chloe, you're gonna enter first. Right there.
You're on the top of the pyramid. Don't push it.
I don't know why you mother doesn't say you have confidence.
You are the cockiest kid I've ever worked with.
Isn't it ironic that Abby's tactics
are very equivalent to bullying
in a dance about bullying?
I'm giving you both legs straight
and you're doing one bent.
Do you understand?
She doesn't have a brain in her head. Move in.
[Christi]
because Abby doesn't like me.
She's made that perfectly clear.
But when I see Chloe starting to cry
and I see the tears actually on her shirt of her dance wear,
I'm thinking, "Oh God, what is going on in there?"
She's an evil bitch.
Chloe's crying.
[Abby] I expect more from you.
You should know what straight legs are.
And you ignore me and just keep going.
[Chloe]
I didn't understand what Miss Abby
was saying to me for choreography.
[Abby] You're not a choreographer.
Don't start being one.
[Chloe]
because I was doing another thing.
She was like, "You're choreographing,"
and I really wasn't trying to choreograph.
I just didn't know what she meant.
-She'll come out. -[Kelly] She isn't gonna come!
Wanna go down and see?
I can't walk in that room.
Well, Chloe isn't gonna walk out.
Then she'll get yelled at more.
[Abby] You're on top of the pyramid. Suck it up.
The next kid's on speed dial to come to this studio.
Okay. Let's go.
Let me see what we have from the top.
Hope you remember it.
The trio this week, entitled "Over and Over,"
is a contemporary piece.
Now, the girls learned this dance months ago.
So this should just be a refresher course
for Chloe, Paige, and Maddie.
♪ Over and over ♪
-♪ This I would do... ♪
Paige, look in the mirror where Maddie's hands are.
Why can't you figure that out?
Why can't you look in the mirror and say,
"One of us is different."
[tense music playing]
Paige, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Where is that foot, in passe, coupe?
Too old for these little corrections. Goodness.
I thought that putting Paige on top of the pyramid
would build up her self-esteem.
That that would give that kid a shot in the arm she needed
to get her act together.
Big mistake.
I have had it with you!
What did she say?
You didn't show up for a whole month to take class.
Your mother sits out there and screams!
You know she won't say it to me
because she's a chicken [bleep].
She has to say it to somebody who's ten.
[Abby] You should have remembered that trio!
Ridiculous.
Hit play. Make 'em do it again.
[dramatic music playing]
[Kelly]
She was my dance teacher.
So I understand how she's hard on dancers.
But as a mom, it's hard whenever you're watching your kid crying.
[Kelly]
[dramatic music playing]
[Abby] She's done. Done.
Stupid is as stupid does and I can't stand it anymore.
It's ridiculous.
There we go again with Kelly.
Bad parenting.
Even a preschool mother knows
you don't come downstairs.
You don't open the door.
You let the teacher handle it.
Why do you let her bother you? I just don't get it.
Just... Who cares?
Look at her and be like, "Who cares, Miss Abby?"
[Paige cries]
[Kelly]
That's how I want her to be.
And Abby flips out because she's crying.
"She's not professional."
Well, no, she's not professional.
She's a ten-year-old little girl at dance class.
Do you not wanna do it?
[Kelly] Okay.
Get control of yourself and go ahead in.
And if she says you're done, walk out and I'll walk in.
It's not worth it. It's a stupid dance.
If she tells you to leave, then say, "You know what? Good.
Give it to somebody else to learn."
-[crying] -[somber music playing]
-Okay. -[crying]
-[Christi] Don't let her win. -You're bigger than her.
Not by size, but you're better than her.
[Christi] It's your trio. Don't let her kick you out.
-All right. Go ahead. -Go ahead.
Take a breath. This is your-- Paige, it's your dance.
[Paige]
for our trio rehearsals.
I don't like when she yells at us because
it makes us feel really nervous,
and if we do it wrong, we're gonna get it.
[Abby] Hollywood Vibe is three days away.
So suck it up and don't leave again
'cause there's another kid waiting to get in here.
-Go. Five, six, seven, eight.
♪ Waiting for you ♪
Ding-dong! Look!
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...
Eight would be the second. Not eight and a-one, two.
[whistling exhale]
This is a routine they learned three months ago.
They didn't forget it, oh, because they're kids.
They forgot it because they're irresponsible dancers.
They screwed up.
They were supposed to practice it on their own.
That is a waste of my time and their time.
Chloe, don't cry! Be smarter!
Eight means eight. Not 9.5, not 10! Eight!
Can't count to eight?
She's not even listening to what I'm saying.
Think about Hollywood Vibe.
'Cause I can call 'em now and try to get our money back
if you don't wanna go.
'Cause I'm not gonna go there
and let what happened to that trio in St. Louis
happen again!
You're gonna go do your solo and be fabulous
and you're gonna do your solo and be fabulous
and screw the trio and screw the group?
No!
I want everything to look great. Do you understand?
So you're done. Go ahead, use that door. Goodbye.
Was I politically correct? No.
Was I furious? Yes!
I want them to go home, I want them to get some sleep.
-Mm-hm. -They're yawning in my face.
They're distracted. They don't know right from left.
They can't count to eight.
They need to go home before somebody gets hurt.
Girls, I don't need the tears.
You're nine, ten, and 11 years old.
Exactly!
[dramatic music playing]
[Abby]
These mothers are enabling their children
to make mistakes and not own them.
My daughter was at the top of pyramid
and she's leaving the studio crying.
This is why I say, [bleep] the pyramid.
Oh, yay.
Are all the tears over?
What are all the tears about?
I don't understand.
-Why are you crying? -You don't understand?
-No.
Because you're screaming in little kids' faces!
[mockingly] "Little kids' faces!"
[Christi] Yeah, little kids' faces!
-Grow up! -You grow up!
[Melissa]
The girls, they were just being taught
the things they forgot about the trio.
It was no big deal.
I think the moms need to get a grip.
Know what, Abby? You should be so lucky
to have Chloe as your student
because she's a great dancer and everybody knows it,
except for you.
I made her. I know it!
You did not. Were you pregnant for nine months?
I made her!
Know what? You couldn't have given a [bleep]
about her for so many years
when I sat up there and I told her what to do
because you were too busy looking at everybody else!
Oh, who else was I looking at?
Oh, let me guess!
-[Kelly laughing] -Who?!
Who else?
[Christi]
on any child in her studio
except for Maddie, and those kids know it.
And it is a shame.
[tense music playing]
Disrespectful!
[Christi]
My mother woulda came in and beat my butt
when I couldn't count to eight!
She woulda been mortified!
White trash.
I didn't sign up for this.
[Abby] Congratulations on a wonderful victory, Kendall.
This beautiful girl in this beautiful dress
is so much prettier to look at
than the little girl crying and running out of the studio
saying, "I quit, I quit, I'm finished."
-We love her. -[Abby] You agree?
Yeah? No more of that.
Okay? All right.
I'm not trying to get on Kendall.
I don't even think I'm hard on Kendall at all.
Kendall is a beautiful child and I think she can be a star.
Let's talk about the future.
'Cause now, you're only as good as your last performance.
You have to go onward and upward from here.
So your height, you're growing,
you need your talent, your stamina,
your energy, your flexibility to keep up with that.
All of you. And it's tough. It stinks.
Maddie is the star she is
because she focused on what I told her was wrong.
When she had a mistake, she worked on it.
She is now a global phenomenon.
And if these other girls figured it out,
that there's nothing wrong with a little more hard work,
they would be famous too.
Tomorrow, I'm leaving for New York for two weeks.
-Honey! -[all react] Aw...
We've been doing this for so long
and we appreciate it and we love being with each other
because I love these ladies
and these kids like they're mine.
And it's hard because I think things are changing for us.
You know?
I love to see my daughter on stage.
This is hard for me today. I'm sorry.
Don't say, "Don't cry" because it's what I do.
It's why I exist for my kids.
Yeah, but just imagine sitting in a movie theater.
I know. I can't wait. But I miss her so much.
This is just the beginning, remember.
I'm saving my tears for my pillow.
I have to save 'em and put 'em in a box.
Abby, what's wrong?
[Abby sighs] Lots.
[tense music playing]
[strained] Yep.
I just feel like...
I just feel like I have shackles on my ankles, dragging me down.
[Jill]
She's lost it.
When you can control your own destiny,
and you make mistakes
and you screw up or do something wrong,
you pay the consequences, that's it.
[music continues]
[announcer]
would be entry #88.
[dramatic music playing]
It's been chaos. Screaming, yelling, fighting,
because everybody knows somebody's going home.
Abby is angry.
They need to come together as a team.
They need to prove to Abby
why they deserve to be here.
[announcer]
[dramatic music playing]
[intense, dramatic orchestral music playing]
[bright, spiritual piano music playing]
♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪
♪ Over the hill and everywhere
♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪
♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪
-[music ends] -[applause, cheering]
[dramatic music playing]
[Abby]
That is not the Lilly that I know.
Not the Lilly I've worked with for years.
Missing a side aerial,
and now she's messed up the group routine.
[Lilly] I fell out of my side aerial
because if I were to do it,
I would have kicked Pressley in the face.
Out of the three weeks we've done this,
I think everyone knows this is the week that wasn't the best.
And we all messed up, so she can't pick on one of us.
We all didn't do our best.
I didn't do the side aerial.
No, she'd rather me just kick someone else.
Stop, please.
[tense music playing]
I'm not sure about "The Healer" winning.
I mean, Lilly screwed up the dance big.
The only way this group has a shot in hell on winning
is if the judges were looking at Brady.
[announcer]
[suspenseful music playing]
"The Healer" from Abby Lee Dance Company!
-Woo! -[upbeat dance music playing]
[indistinct announcement]
Please, one, two, three, and take a bow.
Excellent job. Give it up for them one more time.
[music ends]
Well, it's a good thing
I changed the bad side side aerial on Brady
to go all the way over to stage left
so that nobody saw Lilly over on stage right.
So we should all thank Brady.
Well, congratulations.
You guys should be thrilled that that group won.
'Cause there was a lot of mistakes.
Why does somebody who can do a side aerial blindfolded,
in her sleep, miss it?
[tense music playing]
I was either gonna injure someone else or myself.
Because I was too close to Pressley.
I woulda done my side aerial, I would've kicked her face.
Then if I went on the diagonal, I would've kicked the curtain.
So I decided not to hurt anyone else.
[Stacey] She thought she ruined the group and she was shook.
Being called jealous of her teammate?
Yeah, she doesn't like that.
Lilly, I didn't call you jealous.
No, Abby did because I kept talking about it
so then Abby thought I was jealous and I wasn't.
And it got really annoying.
Okay, what does this have to do
with the side aerial and the spacing?
It should have absolutely nothing.
Because if you're gonna be a pro,
you could sit next to somebody, doing your makeup,
that hates your guts,
and you still have to go out on that stage and do the job
that people are paying for a ticket to see.
I don't want crying kids.
You are a lucky little girl to be here, and all of you are.
So this crap has to stop.
If it's gonna rattle you that much,
something I said or I did,
or blah-blah-blah-blah-blah...
either A. toughen up,
B. let it go in one ear and out the other,
or C. you're not cut out for this.
Kids, out of the room, right now.
[woman] Go on out with Lilly.
Go out the door. -Go on.
-Go on. Out the door. -We'll get that later.
We'll get you in a sec.
People thrive on somebody else being upset
and somebody else having their feelings hurt.
You all know that.
But the carrying on,
and the crying and the chaos...
When I hear all this crap going on,
that's when I have to rethink the casting
and I don't know if everybody really belongs on this team.
These mothers are such fools.
They claim and claim they are not jealous of Brady.
In the meantime, their jealousy
is eating everybody in this room alive.
I don't know what you have an issue
with me about and you are on my case.
I didn't speak to you today and you're all over my case.
And you purposely do it when Abby comes in the room.
You know what Abby does.
She takes it out on your kid.
What is the deal?
Why are you on my case? What is the frickin' problem?
Everybody agrees that your kid has an advantage.
Why are you putting it on me?
-Because you're-- -And on my kid.
What's the reason?
I didn't mean to put it on your kid.
You know what's gonna happen!
I didn't think she would get upset about it.
[indistinct] then they all did 50 push-ups.
Why wouldn't you think that would happen today?
And why just me?
What about her, her, her, her?
Everyone's nodding. Because everyone knows
-everyone agrees. -[indistinct]
Everybody feels that you are jealous of Brady.
[dramatic music fades]
You're the one that gives off the vibe.
Maybe you're jealous of my kid!
-Oh my God. -You try to make me look bad,
you get my kid yelled at.
It's your fault. Deal with it.
You're jealous.
It's frickin' ridiculous.
So ridiculous.
Well, that's her prerogative. She can do that if she wants.
[Lilly] I don't want to be here anymore.
Everyone's yelling at me
and telling me I'm jealous of everyone.
[Stacey] Good, then let's leave.