Karamo mediates between Leighton and his daughter Aryana, who has transitioned. They argue over deleted photos and years of missed calls. Leighton says "I still love my child, whether a dinosaur or not," and confirms he now sees her as his daughter.
All right, Leighton, so you want your family back. What do you mean by that?
What I mean by that is, I mean, talk to them and everything. I don't talk to them.
So what's your response to what you heard Aryana say?
I mean, it hurts.
Why does it hurt?
'Cause they my kid. That's my blood. I mean, I watched them grow up. I mean, I wasn't there all the time. No, I wasn't. I blame myself for that.
So tell me, how did you feel when you saw Aryana at Makayla's graduation?
I mean, it hurt because it's like, looked at me like I wasn't daddy. Like didn't talk to me nothing like that.
Mm-hmm.
But what did you expect me to say? Like the way your approach is everything. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We haven't seen each other in how long? We don't talk to each other, we don't call each other. So what were you expecting?
But I mean, but that's not my, I'm not blamed for all that though. Us not talking to each other? I tried to call.
The phone go both ways.
I tried to talk. Every time I try to call, I don't get no answer or nothing like that. So that made me to just stop calling.
Layne, I got a question for you. Ariana said that when you saw her prom picture, you deleted it off of Facebook. Can you tell me about that and why?
Deleted it?
Yeah.
I ain't delete no pictures.
You didn't delete the picture?
I didn't delete no pictures.
The picture was deleted.
Somebody called.
I didn't delete no pictures. I don't know, your side of the family, whoever. I don't talk to them, I don't know them, irrelevant.
And that's another thing that I heard.
Okay, but you don't talk to mine.
You talk to your mother's side, but you don't talk to my side.
Because they don't wanna even have a relationship with me anyway.
You said that you didn't delete the photo. I didn't. So I wanna ask you point blank, do you accept Aryana as your daughter?
Yeah, I do. She could be a dinosaur, whatever, I still, that's my child. That's mines. Yeah, I do.
Can you tell her that?
I done did it already. I said it.
So you acknowledge me as your daughter, not your son.
Yes, yes, yes I do.
You have two daughters.
Yes I do.
Not one, two.
Yes.
Okay.
It's the first time you're hearing this?
Yeah.
According to my mother, it's, you still acknowledge me as your son. So I mean, I don't know what you do behind my back, but why you can't say it to my face?
So you don't believe it when he says that?
I don't, I can't, I'm not gonna say I do and I'm not gonna say I don't. As we sit right here, He said he acknowledges it, so I'm not gonna call him a liar. I'm not gonna say, "No, you don't." Like, he said what he said. Stand on it.
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