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‘Teen Mom’ Star Catelynn Lowell Reveals Why Daughter’s Adoptive Parents Blocked Her
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- Catelynn Lowell and her husband Tyler Baltierra, who rose to fame on 16 and Pregnant and later Teen Mom, spoke out about the reason why their firstborn daughter Carly’s adoptive parents made the decision to “block” them.
- The pair placed Carly, now 15, for adoption in 2009, and she was adopted by Brandon and Teresa Davis.
- The ordeal was documented on the March 27 episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.
Teen Mom stars Catelynn Lowell and her husband Tyler Baltierra have revealed why their daughter’s adoptive parents made the decision to “block” them.
Catelynn and Tyler, both 33, placed their firstborn daughter Carly, now 15, for adoption in 2009. In a January episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Catelynn revealed that Carly’s adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis, had recently decided to cut off all communication between the two families — even though they initially opted for an open adoption.
Now, in the most recent episode of the MTV series on March 27, Catelynn and Tyler provided more information on Brandon and Teresa’s decision.
“Brandon and Teresa straight up told our adoption counselor, Dawn, ‘Yeah, I had to block her [Catelynn] for my mental health,’ “ Catelynn said during the episode. “And I was like, ‘Your mental health, your mental health?’ I mean, it was like anxiety. I literally felt every emotion come up of when I hugged [Carly] in the hospital and told her bye.”
Catelynn went on to claim that Teresa “told Dawn to tell us that we’re not allowed to send gifts anymore because it’s uncalled for. She said, ‘But tell them they can’t tell anybody I said that.’ And I said, ‘Well, f— now, I’m saying it. I’m spilling it from the rooftops.’ “
“You have my kid, you can’t take my story, too,” Tyler added.
Catelynn also claimed that Teresa told their adoption counselor that she wanted a “very sincere apology,” to which Catelynn said she replied: “You? You need an apology? For what? For me putting the truth out about how you are as a human and what you did to us. I deserve a f—— apology.”
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Catelynn, who now shares children Nova, 10, Vaeda, 6, and Rya, 3, with Tyler, additionally claimed that some of Teresa’s current qualms with the situation stem from the fact that Carly refers to Catelynn’s other three children as her sisters.
“Carly’s always said, ‘This is my sister.’ So I thought it was an okay thing,” Catelynn explained later in the March 27 episode while sitting down with podcaster and TikToker Jordy Cray. “So I just went with it. Teresa said, ‘The word ‘sisters’ just really gets me.’ “
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“It doesn’t sit right with me,” Tyler added. “Should we say birth sister? What would you prefer? And she literally didn’t really have an answer.”
Catelynn went on to share that their “main goal” for discussing the situation publicly is to ultimately let Carly know that they “never stopped trying” to have a relationship with her.
“She deserves to know that in my opinion,” she said. “Also, it is bringing awareness to everybody that is involved in adoption.”
In a previous episode of the series, Catelynn revealed that the sudden and unexpected loss of communication with Carly had given her “adoption PTSD,” despite the fact that she has done a lot of work on her mental health.
“It was difficult. For the longest time I was like, ‘I think I’m pretty healed from my adoption trauma.’ I’ve done lots of therapy, worked on it really hard. And then, when all of this happened, I found myself in a really bad place, like adoption PTSD, for a few weeks to a month where it was just like randomly crying out of nowhere, [dealing with] anxiety and sadness,” she said.
“I think it’s important that I’m open with my kids,” Catelynn continued. “My kids would see me crying and ask me, ‘Why are you crying?’ And you don’t know what to say. I told her, ‘I just really miss your sister.’ ”
She added: “I’m open with all of them about it. Thankfully, my kids do help me, too. I have other things to do and I can’t just be a blob of a mess forever. I have these children that I have to show up for, that I have to take to do things.”
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Usher boots fan off stage after her painfully awkward response to his seductive dance moves

Usher quickly put a stop to sexily serenading a fan onstage after she got visibly uncomfortable.
In a now-viral moment from the singer’s performance in Nashville on The R&B Tour with Chris Brown on Saturday, a woman from the audience got pulled onstage as the chosen fan Usher sings to. But as a shirtless Usher started singing to her, she looked painfully uncomfortable, though he continued to try to interact with her by lightly touching her chin and face.
But when he tried to get her to recline on the onstage bed and she stiffly moved back, the 47-year-old singer pulled away.
“I don’t think she want to be on the stage, huh?” he asked the audience, looking bewildered.
Eventually, the “Yeah!” singer stepped away from her completely and waved his hand backwards towards the stage in a signal to bring the fan off, looking annoyed as some fans began to boo.
The fan later took to social media to clap back at criticism she received, responding to comments that she should have never agreed to go onstage if she didn’t want to be there.
“First off NOBODY is declining to go on stage,” she wrote. “I looked good asf, you think I wasn’t going to let THOUSANDS of people see me?”
She shared that she and her mom had floor seats to the show, and she was moved up to the VIP section before the concert even started due to “pretty privileges.”
“They don’t say who you’re going up there for!” she wrote. “Y’all wanted me to go up there and f–k him atp?”
On Sunday, she posted selfies, and pointedly captioned her post, “Unbothered 😘.”
But she continued to defend herself on her Instagram Stories, insisting her attitude wasn’t “nasty.”
“Y’all aren’t gonna get on the internet calling me out my name and disrespecting me and expect me to keep it cool!” she expressed, adding, “Don’t think that yall are gonna bully me about an experience that yall didn’t get!”
Usher is known for his spicy concert interactions with fans. His bodyguard hilariously went viral in 2024 for seemingly looking disgusted on the Past Present Future Tour, during the part of the singer’s show when he would let audience members seductively eat cherries.
Usher’s co-headliner, Chris Brown, also went viral in September 2025 but for an entirely different reaction that he got to pulling a fan onstage — that fan being Travis Kelce’s ex Kayla Nicole.
Brown, 37, gave Nicole, 34, a sensual lap dance while singing his 2007 hit, “Take You Down,” during the singer’s Breezy Bowl XX Tour stop in Los Angeles, prompting mixed reaction online. Some fans thought the two went too far, while others praised Nicole for seizing the moment.
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John Cusack reveals why he stepped away from Hollywood after decades of films

John Cusack opened up about why he’s largely taken a step back from Hollywood.
The “Being John Malkovich” star, 60, said he wanted to tell stories without studio executives weighing in, prompting him to write his upcoming graphic novel “Momo.”
“I always thought [graphic novels] were the closest things to film, really,” he told Variety at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday. “You’re picking out shots, they’re so cinematic.”
Cusack explained he turned to writing because he “didn’t [want to] negotiate telling a story.”
“When you ask somebody to put $20 million or $30 million into a bank account [for a film], they want to have an opinion and they’re afraid and all that stuff,” he said.
Instead, he teamed up with illustrator Ignacio Noé to create “Momo” on their own terms.
“This was just like, I wrote it, and I said, ‘I like the story,’ and then I got this beautiful, wonderful artist, Ignacio Noé, to do the illustrations and so nobody edited anything I wrote or that he drew,” Cusack said.
“So it’s really a piece of work that was just done by two people. It was just me and Ignacio’s story, and that doesn’t happen today.”
“There’s no bull, and there’s no committee. There’s no computer up in Seattle that’s poll testing it,” he added.
“Momo” — Cusack’s first graphic novel — is set to be released on Sept. 29.
The story follows two fugitives in 1972 who set out to recover an ancient artifact for TV icon Jackie Gleason.
The actor spent decades as one of Hollywood’s most recognizable leading men, starring in “Grosse Pointe Blank,” “High Fidelity” and “Con Air,” but his acting career has become increasingly selective in recent years.
He appeared in the 2025 films “Fog of War” and the Mandarin-language film “Detective Chinatown 1900” after starring in the Chinese espionage thriller “Decoded” in 2024.
Before that, his only screen credits since 2020 were the action thriller “Pursuit” and Amazon’s dystopian series “Utopia.”
Cusack has been outspoken about the state of Hollywood for years.
“My friend Joe Roth ran Disney [until 2000],” he told the Guardian in 2014. “He made things like ‘The Rock’ and ‘Con Air’ to make shareholders happy, but then he also gave six or seven slots to people he liked.
“I got to make ‘High Fidelity’ and ‘Grosse Pointe Blank.’ Spike Lee got to make ‘Summer of Sam.’ Wes Anderson got to make ‘Rushmore.’ I had that memory of film and that’s gone.”
“Now it’s six for them — with a committee cutting the film who weren’t part of making it – and maybe one for you,” he added.
Cusack isn’t the only member of his family to step away from the spotlight.
His older sister, actress Joan Cusack, 63, made her first red-carpet appearance since 2015 in May when she attended the London premiere of “Toy Story 5,” ending an 11-year absence from public events.
“I feel so honored to have worked in this industry for a long time,” the actress told Variety in June. “But it’s also great to live your life and raise your kids and be in Chicago and be a normal person.”
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Kelly Clarkson shares rare love life update

Kelly Clarkson defended her right to remain single during a recent Las Vegas residency show.
“People are like, ‘Oh, why are you single?’ And I’m like, ‘First of all, there are a lot of people out here making single look real good,’” the talk show host told the crowd Friday at her “Studio Sessions” show at Caesars Palace, per social media footage.
“And if you didn’t really understand what I meant by that, it’s like you see relationships and you’re like, ‘I am so glad I’m going home alone.’”
She jokingly added, “You know what’s not happening in my house? That s–t.”
“If you are in a relationship, the hardest part I feel like is just keeping that fire alive and still dating,” the “American Idol” winner continued. “And, like, still making it feel magical and not monotonous.”
The “Miss Independent” hitmaker, 44, has kept her dating life under wraps since she finalized her divorce from late ex-husband Brandon Blackstock in 2022.
Blackstock — who shared daughter River Rose, 12, and son Remy, 10, with the pop star — died in August 2025 at the age of 48 after battling melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.
Though she returned to “The Kelly Clarkson Show” that September, Page Six reported in January that the Grammy winning songstress would be ending the daytime talk show.
The mom of two confirmed the impending end of her series in February, writing in a social media statement that there had “been so many amazing moments and shows over these seven seasons.”
She added that she’s “forever grateful and honored to have worked alongside the greatest band and crew you could hope for” and acknowledged “all the talent and inspiring people who have shared their time and lives with us.”
Clarkson wrote that it was “not an easy decision” to step away, and noted that she felt it’s “necessary and right for this next chapter of our lives” to prioritize her children.
The show will wrap up and air its final episodes this fall and her summer Las Vegas residency runs through Aug. 15.
Clarkson also released her new single, “I’d Be Lyin’,” on July 17.
Prior to Blackstock’s passing, Clarkson — who filed for divorced from the producer in 2020 and saw the legal matter settled in 2022 — addressed why she isn’t dating.
“Dating can be very difficult, which is why I don’t,” she told her Las Vegas audience in July 2025.
Clarkson said at the time that since dating “is hard anyway,” it can be a “dumpster fire” when you “add a spotlight.”
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