Karamo talks with 16-year-old Ayanna, who lost her mother and turned to drugs and running away. After her suspension for bringing drugs to school and a brief stint in rehab, she's now pregnant and believes she can quit smoking weed.
Ayanna is feeling a little uncomfortable. She's 16. So we're gonna try to make sure she's all right. Hi, love. You okay?
That's who I talk to.
You nervous? Can I say hello? It's nice cameras. You nervous? Yeah. I know. Good. Here, will you shake my hand? Nice to meet you, Karamo. Nice to meet you too. You wanna come on out? Yeah. It's gonna be a good conversation. Come on out.
All right. All right.
There you go. There you go. Woman up. Yeah. This is a thing. You look pretty good out here.
Everyone say hello.
Everyone give it up for Ayonna. You can take a seat. Well, can I have a proper hug now that you came out? Nice to meet you. All right, so we heard a lot about what's going on. I wanna go back a little bit. Why did you feel like you needed to act out?
I don't know. I'm gonna say I acted out because when I lost my mom, I felt like I didn't have nobody, so.
Yeah.
I was just hanging out with the wrong crowds and I thought drugs was a solution of all that.
So you say you don't feel like you have anybody because you lost your mom. Do you feel alone right now?
No, I have my aunt, 'cause our relationship got better. But in the beginning when I was younger, I felt like I didn't have no type of support and stuff.
Yeah. Do you still talk to your mom? When things happen and when you're feeling a sort of way?
Well, sometimes, not all the time, 'cause I don't really wanna stress my mom out 'cause I know the predicament she in, but I talk to her about most of my problems.
Do you feel like that you have the comfort from family and friends to support you?
I don't necessarily fool my family. I don't know. I fool, I talk to my aunt about certain stuff, but as far as like my family, like close family, I don't really.
Why don't you wanna talk to your family?
They're not supportive of anything at all.
Got it. Does your mom know that you're pregnant?
Yeah, she knows. She's happy.
She's happy?
Yeah.
Okay. Are you happy about being pregnant?
I mean.
So why would you run away? 'Cause I heard you would run away for 2 weeks at a time.
Chasing boys.
Chasing boys?
Chasing boys.
Yeah. Yeah. Why chasing boys?
I guess I was looking for love. I guess you can see that recently, but.
So I wanna go back now to school. What did you do in order to not be able to go back to school?
I brought drugs to school the first time I got kicked out. I brought drugs to school and then I went to the program. And like my aunt said, I only went to the program one time and I never went back.
Why did you want to go back?
I don't feel as though— I don't know, honestly. I was being hardheaded. I could have went to the program. It was not that hard to really do. But me and me, I didn't want to waste— I felt like it was a waste of my time.
Yeah.
So I didn't want to.
Were you scared to go there?
No.
Okay. And why did you think it was a waste of your time?
Because it's like, how y'all gonna tell me I'm addicted to something when I know I can stop? And it's like—
Do you think you can stop smoking weed?
Yeah, I can stop smoking weed. It's not hard.
Yeah. Have you done it?
What?
Stop smoking weed? Have you?
Yeah, at this point in time, yeah.
Because you're pregnant?
Because I'm pregnant.
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