ABBY: Chloe is doing a beautiful contemporary piece
entitled "Soaring."
Will she soar or will she continue to spiral downwards,
to be mediocre?
Glide through fourth-- [gasps]. Go back.
Glide through fourth into the attitude.
Watching Chloe rehearse her solo,
it's apparent that she's not the same dancer she was.
And it's not because of her technique.
It's about her passion.
And I want her to have that spunk and that fire.
But she doesn't.
That wasn't looking like you wanted to dance.
It's got to come from you, Chloe.
I can't keep giving you the same pep
talk over and over and over.
I can't make you want to dance.
Whatever.
CHLOE: I guess I'm in a really tough situation right now.
Because I don't really think that Miss Abby
is expecting me to beat Camryn.
And that's really hard, to go into a dance competition,
like, with all this pressure on you,
and then everyone's, like, working against you.
ANNOUNCER: This is number 29, "Soaring."
[applause]
Chloe was supposed to dance last year at nationals.
But her mother Christi ruined it for her.
She'll never know if she could have won or not.
But now is her chance.
This is her moment to go out there and earn this victory
and prove that she's still on top of her game.
[music playing]
[applause]
I love to watch Chloe on stage.
She's a beautiful dancer.
She has great technique.
And I think Chloe should be really proud of herself.
Because I think it would be so hard to hear just
negative things all the time and go
out there and rise to the occasion
and dance your heart out.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, we actually had a tie
between fifth and sixth place.
Sixth place, with a score of 278.4 points--
fifth place had that same score of 278.4,
but a higher technique score.
So at this time, join me in congratulating, in sixth place,
Miss Camryn, with act number 26, "This
Is the Start," from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
In fifth place, join me in congratulating Miss Chloe
with act number 29, "Soaring," from the Abby
Lee Dance Company.
ABBY: I cannot believe that Chloe
actually beat Camryn again.
I-- I don't know how she pulled it off.
Abby didn't care if Camryn won nationals.
She wanted Camryn to beat Chloe.
And she didn't.
And Abby can't stand to lose.
Those five kids in there put your fat name on the map.
No.
You were no one before these kids.
Why do you say that?
Because you think putting a couple of kids on Broadway
makes you someone?
Guess who made you a household name.
Them.
Take a hike.
She has more class in her little finger
at 13 than you have a big fat body at 45.
ABBY: Chloe is finished!
Your kid's washed up!
(YELLING) How dare you?
Do you know anything about that kid?
No!
Gotta draw the line.
Enough's enough.
How low of a human being can she be?
(SOBBING) This isn't about dance.
This is about human decency.
And how low can you go?
And I don't think anybody's lower than Abby.
You heard?
As a mom, I can't sit by and watch this woman
destroy my child anymore.
She can't steal her passion.
She can't steal her self-confidence.
My line's been crossed.
Dance isn't worth it.
Let's go, Chlo.
It's really sad that Chloe was part of the winning group
dance, and she had the highest scoring ALDC solo,
and this is how her national ends.
[sniffs] (SOBBING) I still want to dance.
I still want to do this, but I don't
want to do it with her anymore.
[sniffs]
My favorite part about dancing with the girls
is that, even if we lost or won, we were always a team,
and we always worked together. (SOBBING)
And we were just always there for each other
and we knew how it felt.