Hi, girls.
Hi.
How are you?
MAN: Everybody had an amazing audition.
I think every single one of you could be a star, lead role
in a music video.
The lead is Mackenzie.
Oh, yeah.
I'm so excited that Mackenzie got
the lead in the MattyB video.
So this is a great way to end LA.
One, two, three, shimmy.
Five, six, seven, push.
And slide.
Hey, y'all, it's good.
This is exciting, because this is what LA should be like.
Working on a set of a music video.
JILL VERTES: But of course, Abby is throwing a wrench into it.
ABBY LEE MILLER: There has to be a deal in place.
Mackenzie has a music contract.
MAN: They wouldn't be in that room
if Melissa didn't sign that contract with me.
Well, she's an idiot.
Mackenzie has a lead role singing in this video.
Now Melissa, her mother, went ahead and signed a contract,
and that contract was for her to appear
in the video, not to sing.
If she is singing, she should be billed as a featured artist,
because Mackenzie is a recording artist.
And as her manager, I am not going to let this happen.
There is no way that this kid is taking a step backwards.
MELISSA GISONI: They represent Mackenzie, Maddie, Kendall,
and Nia all of our four kids.
These matter.
Well I represent the other three here too.
MAN: All right, well you guys can let me know.
Thank you.
MELISSA GISONI: I guess my kids are being pulled,
and Mick, maybe yours too.
JILL VERTES: Why, since when we've been
talking about this for a week.
Why now?
I can understand Mackenzie--
Mackenzie.
--because she's her own artist in itself.
But why would our kids be pulled?
I don't know.
Our kids have no reason to be pulled.
I have no idea. We have to talk to Abby.
Abby has ruined every opportunity
for Nia that's come her way, since we've been in LA.
Nia finally has an opportunity to make a splash in LA,
and I am not letting Abby take this one away.
They are my dancers here.
You are not here because your kid went to an open audition.
But this is the opportunity that was provided to our girls.
And as their manager, I am telling you this could
have been a wonderful thing.
Right now, it is not a good thing.
What has changed for our girls who are the dancers?
Nothing has changed for the dancers.
We're going to shoot a video, and
if anybody wants their daughter to be in it,
you guys can decide.
I just thought I'd throw that in.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Of course this little boy's manager
is fine with the girls being in his video.
Well, I guess we'll see who trusts me as their manager
and who doesn't.
I do want her on, but I'm not going to--
That's how I feel, but I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to--
--because I have to go back to the studio--
which I want to-- and make my child comfortable there.
HOLLY FRAZIER: I think it's easy for Melissa and Jill
to side with Abby and walk out.
Is it the right thing to do?
LA is a small town.
People know each other, and I don't
want Nia's reputation to be damaged whatsoever by walking
off on an opportunity.
As a person who said, on your honor, I'm
going to do this job, how do you back out of the job now?
We're teaching them to be professionals.
We're teaching them to honor their word.
Say you're going to do a job, and you're
able and capable of doing it, nothing
has changed since the beginning of the week.
Holly's right.
Jojo is staying and doing this music video.
It's a small world, and you don't want to be at an audition
someday and have the choreographer go,
oh, don't use her.
Her mom pulled her out when I was halfway through a project
one day.
Come on, Abby.
Well, she's gone.
Once again, Holly has stabbed me in the back.
She's the only original ALDC member that is staying
to participate in this video.
She obviously doesn't trust me as her manager.
We have our last competition in LA tomorrow, and at this point,
I'm not sure I even want Holly and Nia to attend.
They didn't stand by the team today,
so I'm not so sure they should be standing with the team
tomorrow.
I can't do it.
Come on, then, let's get dressed.
No.
Come on, guys, come on.
You just ruined the whole day, Mom.
MELISSA GISONI: I tried several times to get Mackenzie back on,
and Abby wasn't having it.
She wasn't changing her mind.
Regardless, this is Abby's decision, not mine,
and the other moms should listen to Abby more often,
and maybe things would happen more for their kids.
MACKENZIE ZIEGLER: But I was having so much fun.
Why does this have to happen?
So, do you want to do it, Nia, because there's
no going back after this.
Look, if you want to go, like, I'm just being up-front.
She's had a rough time with Abby in LA.
I don't want her to torture me.
She's going to torture me if I do it.
Well, I can't be tortured alone, so let's go.
I know Abby is going to be really
upset if I do this video, but I really want to do it.
I'm going to do it anyways.
Obviously, I didn't start off that LA trip
on a high note with Abby, definitely
not going to end on a high note.
Abby doesn't forget anything.