Maternal Instinct

516 00:32:58,518 --> 00:33:02,939 {\an8}Before everything happened, Kenzie, Taylor, and I were all best friends. 517 00:33:03,022 --> 00:33:05,942 And we would spend basically all our time together. 518 00:33:06,025 --> 00:33:08,277 Blah! 519 00:33:08,361 --> 00:33:12,615 24-7. If we weren't together, there was at least two of us together. 520 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:17,578 Our emotions were very connected. If I was sad, she was sad. 521 00:33:17,662 --> 00:33:20,331 If she was sad, I was. If she was happy, me too. 522 00:33:21,374 --> 00:33:23,543 {\an8}But I was worried bad for her. 523 00:33:23,626 --> 00:33:28,339 {\an8}As my close friend, I was so worried because Taylor stayed sick. 524 00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:30,717 She stayed sick all the time. 525 00:33:31,342 --> 00:33:33,720 She had all these conditions. 526 00:33:34,303 --> 00:33:36,597 She was always in and out of the hospital. 527 00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:39,017 I remember there was always pictures of her, 528 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:41,561 like, in the hospital, she was taking selfies. 529 00:33:42,937 --> 00:33:48,651 Taylor told me that she had been diagnosed with MS. 530 00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:51,654 She also had cancer, from my understanding. 531 00:33:51,738 --> 00:33:55,283 At one time, she had had, like, a brain tumor or something. 532 00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:56,951 She'd had a stroke. 533 00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:59,620 I mean, all of these things kind of played into each other. 534 00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:01,539 There was a lot of posts about it. 535 00:34:01,622 --> 00:34:05,209 She would actually have times when you could see deficit 536 00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:06,544 from the stroke. 537 00:34:06,627 --> 00:34:09,213 You would see slurring, drooping face. 538 00:34:09,297 --> 00:34:13,885 I mean, I genuinely believed that she had suffered a stroke. 539 00:34:13,968 --> 00:34:15,720 {\an8}It's always something with Taylor. 540 00:34:15,803 --> 00:34:17,096 {\an8}She would put on Facebook 541 00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:19,223 {\an8}that she was either sick or she had a headache. 542 00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:23,603 After it kept happening and happening and happening over and over, 543 00:34:23,686 --> 00:34:26,564 I started being like, "Yeah, maybe she's not really sick." 544 00:34:26,647 --> 00:34:28,858 "Maybe it's, like, something else." 545 00:34:29,692 --> 00:34:33,321 At the same time, I was going through health problems of my own 546 00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:35,990 and was actually told that I would never have kids naturally. 547 00:34:36,074 --> 00:34:38,284 {\an8}Taylor shared those emotions with me. 548 00:34:38,367 --> 00:34:41,162 {\an8}And then once she found out that I was pregnant, 549 00:34:41,245 --> 00:34:43,206 it was like she was pregnant with her own child. 550 00:34:43,289 --> 00:34:47,502 It was just so exciting for both of us. 551 00:34:49,128 --> 00:34:53,424 As my pregnancy progressed, she wanted to be in everything. 552 00:34:53,508 --> 00:34:56,177 And as my best friend, I was fine with that, you know? 553 00:34:56,260 --> 00:35:01,099 But then after Taylor had realized McKenzie was having a girl, 554 00:35:01,182 --> 00:35:02,475 things got super weird. 555 00:35:03,059 --> 00:35:04,811 She wanted to plan the gender reveal. 556 00:35:04,894 --> 00:35:07,021 She wanted to be there for the ultrasounds. 557 00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:09,065 She wanted to know when the appointments were. 558 00:35:09,148 --> 00:35:11,484 How was Kenzie doing? How was the baby doing? 559 00:35:11,567 --> 00:35:15,321 She wanted the login to my pregnancy tracking app 560 00:35:15,404 --> 00:35:18,199 so that she could watch the progress of my pregnancy. 561 00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:22,036 It was concerning. I mean, I know you're happy for her, 562 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,580 but you don't have to be, like, crazy happy. 563 00:35:24,664 --> 00:35:27,875 It's like she wanted the pregnancy to be hers. 564 00:35:28,876 --> 00:35:32,338 And then she asked if one of us could carry a baby for her. 565 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,092 She said, "Okay, I've accepted that I can't have any more kids." 566 00:35:36,968 --> 00:35:38,594 "Would one of y'all want to do it for me?" 567 00:35:39,178 --> 00:35:44,684 {\an8}She said that whoever carried this baby would get a minimum of $50,000. 568 00:35:44,767 --> 00:35:46,435 But how could you have another baby 569 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:49,438 when you didn't even take care of the two kids you had? 570 00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:54,360 That was the first time I took a step back from Taylor and was like… 571 00:35:55,778 --> 00:35:57,155 "You're scaring me." 572 00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:03,494 She became obsessive with my pregnancy, and I had to cut her off. 573 00:36:05,079 --> 00:36:08,791 {\an8}Then I heard through ...