“You Were My Mother, Too!” | Shameless

[@venomxo8325]

The fact that she abandoned them and then showed up just to take one of them away just shows how careless she is for not being there when they needed her.

[@kellyblack8045]

I noticed she wasn't trying to be mommy to all them kids. Just the shiny new one who doesn't remember her mistakes.

[@venomxo8325]

@@kellyblack8045 Oh yeah , imagine that he grows up to find out wonder what's going to happen.

[@yusramohamed4122]

True

[@destinyfredette7616]

My biological mother tried to do the same with me and my younger brother. She dropped us off one day but came to my elementary school to kidnap me because she didn’t want my brother. She only had him to baby trap my dad and she didn’t want a “special” kid.

[@the1theonlyg248]

One could say she was utterly… *Shameless?*

[@Titans17-0]

“Carl made something blow up” its literally the smallest things and fiona takes pride in it. She was so proud of all the kids including so many flaws. Fiona was so underrated even tho she had a drastic downfall, she deserves the love she gets for her character.

[@musadeldaly2732]

I didn't watch the series what downfall ?

[@Titans17-0]

@@musadeldaly2732 fiona kept breaking parole, she got arrested because liam got into a bag of coke she left out during a party, and the coke was from her bosses/ex boyfriends brother (who she fucked in her boyfriend’s house) she had a stable job making more than the family ever did, she threw it away for the bosses brother. Then while on house arrest she went back to the brothers house and went on another bender. All while abusing alcohol.

[@Micaela.S.M]

​@@musadeldaly2732I don't remember much,but the Younger Brother go to the hospital because she left drugs on the table and he Take them...she go to jail and gets a bit worse

[@tayinabyss]

Fiona was a good parent up until debbie hit 12. I know Fiona never got to grow up but she also did alot of harm to other people including Liam, every man she ever dated, debbie, and Carl. She checked out and was basically like,"it's not on me anymore" she was forever itching for a way out

[@Micaela.S.M]

@@tayinabyss On the first seasons she do everything for her brothers and sister,but she always play the card of "oh my life is worse than all the people here so you have to listen complain and ignore what happen to yOu"....ruin all the good things that happen to her in the next seasons and leave all the responsability to lip,it was a time that i love Fiona but i swear if you trying to have a better life dont do silly Things for impulse

[@UnderTheTableGremlin]

“You were my mother, too.” Hardest line in the entire show. The way that Fiona just cowers and starts crying like she’s a like she’s a kid again just breaks my heart. She never had a chance, nor did her siblings.

[@soulsreaper7145]

what was fiona expecting by going their?

[@mione134]

This scene right here. This scene should of given Emmy Rossum an Emmy Award. How she didn't win one is beyond me.

[@SupernaturalLove100]

Right?! Fantastic performances!!

[@hydrangeas_lover]

I totally agree

[@maddielopez8625]

Steve Carrell never won one for Michael scott. That award is a farce.

[@mione134]

@maddielopez8625 True. But Emmy for Comedy/Drama is different. Yeah, Steve should of gotten one for Comedy. But Emmy was unreal in this show.

[@kz7115]

“Should have”, not “should of”. This is getting to pandemic levels online….

[@Masuba]

"it's alright I'm not one of yours. Just came to rubberneck" 🤣🤣🤣

[@coachmikesfilmroom3111]

V and Kev are amazing!

[@tessamoland797]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Duh_D_Rexx]

Because you knew for a second, Monica would’ve wondered…

[@J4sse]

At least she's upfront 😂.

[@teakthemeek1612]

0:56-1:10 This was such a perfect line from Sheila, I loved her so much but that really showed that Monica didn't even think about her kids until they were pointed out to her.

[@agbarugo]

"No. For walking out on *them*." Sheila is and always will be the best character in Shameless.

[@Tara-cv2kz]

I know! I loved her

[@malehlohonolo8463]

"He's not even Frank's" but Frank loves him the most

[@TasniimFaysal]

He was franks tho😭😭

[@toadcurtis1]

He is franks, dna test

[@alabastercalhoun]

He is franks kid, frank said there is rumor about one his women ancestors had an affair with a black guy.

[@kjack3032]

​@@alabastercalhoungrandma gallagher

[@icoleman150]

It was Ian who isn’t Frank’s

[@Sassafrass95]

it's funny how debbie was so quick to hate fiona but then forget that her own mother abandoned her with no second thought leaving Fiona, a child herself to take care of her multiple siblings

[@Bittyboo14]

I hate how everyone forgets what Fiona did for them

[@w8909-j9y]

Monica literally pulled on Debbie’s and carls heartstrings to make them feel bad for her. They are literally kids is this scene. They probably thought that this time something would change and that Monica would finally be there for them. And It’s pretty easy to forgive someone when you have no real memories of that person. God this scene makes me depise monica and makes me feels so bad for Debbie and Carl

[@yung1717]

Debbie was a child. Abandoned by her parents and thinking the only parental figure she had left was also going to leave

[@lyna.shanel]

yall so weird. she was basically 8 here wtf 💀

[@commisionerq1374]

​@@w8909-j9ycause that scene reflects on later season

[@craftingranger7552]

Fionna was put through the worst type of hell and on such a massive scale...she raised her entire family and once Monica was gone again she still came back and did her best.

[@SupernaturalLove100]

Actress that plays Fiona was robbed of an Emmy and Golden Globe SO many times. The whole show was. Such great performances 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@salvadorr4727]

Yes she was and she's also a very talented singer

[@aaliyahpatterson3836]

Her name IS Emmy lmao😂😂

[@DragonGoddess18]

3:18 Monica doesn't get that. Using the bare minimum excuses nothing She's an awful mother, through and through

[@venomxo8325]

Damn right 👍

[@TERRELL_GASKINS]

3:30 you can hear the child like pain coming from Fiona's voice and it you realize that Monica was worse than frank because it's her name that turned frank into what he is and abandoned her kids and Fiona is the one cleaning up behind her nonsense

[@blahblahblah412]

REALLLL. frank was in college when he met monica, granted he hated it and was looking for a way out already so it was easier, but if he never met her his life would've been drastically different

[@Mysterious-Night]

@@blahblahblah412frank went to college? No wonder he’s so smart

[@umbralowl]

@@Mysterious-Night Yeah, Lip gets his smarts from Frank. All the addictions just messed everything up

[@MemphisSam-x1u]

Fiona's middle name is Monica 😢

[@diamondflake5407]

The fact that Emmy didn’t win some type of award for this is beyond me . Great acting !

[@TheVonhouser]

Emmy should've won an emmy.

[@aaronr.ballantyne1313]

Almost criminal that she didn't

[@rarehearts2602]

“He’s not even Franks!” Boy did she and Bob see how that backfired😂

[@jalenbobo668]

Poor Fiona she was never been taken care of she took care of her all of her siblings and her father all by herself when she was 9 years old that’s sad frank should be ashamed of himself for being lazy and ungrateful also Monica should just leave and never come back because she has officially failed Fiona,Lip, and Ian for missing the rest of their childhood and doing the same thing to Carl Debbie and Liam.

[@rvtech101]

“ It’s ok, I’m not one of yours. I just came to rubber neck “. Goddamn funny!

[@LoveLife247]

"You are my mother too" hits really hard tho 😢

[@bremass851]

That was deep the mother had no response to that.

[@TristanTML09]

Were…. Not are😢

[@BeardlessYouth]

@@TristanTML09don’t be a douche

[@kelsianderson8903]

Can we just appreciate Emmy Rossums acting here for a moment? Everything about this scene was great acting from her and powerful. But props for the scene when she matches Chloe Webs face when she starts to cry. It really sells it that Fiona and Monica are related with the similar facial expressions when they cry. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@lionsjourney29]

3:30 Timestamp absolutely breaks my heart. First her pain. But her scrunched up elbows screaming, begging for a life time of hugs she never got to had from her mom and dad because she became the caretaker since a little girl. The elbows of a little girl crying for momma. And the fact she will never receive them.

[@Tyler_Mills26]

It's very telling about how much Debbie and Carl depend on Fiona to keep them safe because when they first hug Monica they know Fiona is there to bail them out if it goes tits up. The second that Fiona leaves they duck out of the way when Monica tries to touch them

[@thomasraines1396]

It’s so sad.

[@ЭнхмөнхУ]

"maybe i will never make it work with you but there is still time for Liam" hits so hards

[@sargerules20]

Yeah. Especially coming from someone who never even tried in the first place

[@mandeanraje2300]

​@@sargerules20oof.

[@derrickhightower2681]

The fact she didn’t even try to apologize just gave up so quickly

[@keatonlacretin9781]

This is the single most powerful scene in all 11 seasons. Its a shame they couldn’t match it later on

[@andrewilliams236]

Yeah but the writers strut around pretty shameless about that missed opportunity

[@adamstephens6050]

I laughed. Cos it's a comedy

[@centenoservices1111]

Hard to match

[@aaronr.ballantyne1313]

I would say the speech Fiona made when Monica died is up there too

[@dustinpuckett1593]

@@aaronr.ballantyne1313100%%%%%%

[@TawnyRoyal]

“I’m not one of yours, I just came to rubberneck”😭😭😭 V is so real for that.

[@j.ronnygibson]

Anyone else gonna talk about the fact that Frank knew how to reach Monica the whole time?

[@daynechastant]

Well, we kinda knew he was a POS, but the poor guy loved her more than himself...or anyone else.

[@j.ronnygibson]

@@daynechastant I think you mean, the only one that actually loved her. Fiona and Lip hate Monica at this point. Ian has mix feelings, Debbie and Carl grew to be apathetic and Liam doesn't know who she is

[@jaylamiller8878]

​@@j.ronnygibson For good reason too, I mean she leaves, comes back not only for her child but with another woman claiming that the child Monica wants HAS to go to them because he's part black? Frank was the father when they did the DNA test which doesn't help Liam because Frank is an awful father but that makes Monica a bad mother. All of those things Fiona listed off that the kids did, she acknowledged the fact that it was THEM who did it. Not her, them, they did it themselves with more help from Fiona than from Monica. Notice how Fiona is a grown adult taking care of all these kids, Ian is crying his eyes out because he doesn't know what to do or think, Lip is as pissed as Fiona and despite the fact that Debbie and Carl did hug their mother when she asked to be their mommy again, they immediately pushed her off if it meant losing Fiona. Because they look up to her, they have a role model and it isn't a great one because Fiona fucks up more than a few times but she has always tried to put the kids first, nobody can fuck up as much all of those kids biological parents. It seems like they both really do care for their kids but when it gets hard, they leave or get drunk, or do drugs. It's bs, I'm glad Fiona raised all of the kids because in the end, they all turned up amazing.

[@FireArtVids21]

@@jaylamiller8878 well I wouldn’t say they all turn out amazing. You got Debbie who became a selfish person as she got older and a terrible mother.

[@jaylamiller8878]

@@FireArtVids21 But in that moment, she raised them with some problems but SHE raised them. And by the end of that episode specifically, they had done amazing things and were amazing people who were flawed and yes I guess that could mean "Monica and Frank have flaws too" but there is a difference between a really bad drunk/druggie of a father, a mother who not only does drugs but tried to kill herself in front of her kids in the kitchen while everyone was seated, she also left multiple times, she also attempted to grab a baby that may have been hers but doesn't even know who she is. By that episode, those kids were amazing.

[@J4sse]

Top tier acting.

[@noelialopez6750]

Makes me wish I started watching

[@J4sse]

@noelialopez6750 It's on Netflix (if you have it) if you decide to go through it. As a heads up S1-3 are the peak seasons, S4 is pretty dark, the next ones are watchable and the last couple are just bad. Overall i don't regret watching this show which brings me back here lol

[@kerriwright6800]

And the Shut up frank I can’t help but laugh 😂😂 because frank is literally Highkey stoned at that point

[@Reviewer2016]

2:22 “you don’t get to abandon your kids and then show up one day to take your pick of the litter.” Reminds me of when Uncle Phil chewed out Will’s dad comparing him to a coat he can’t just put on when he feels like it. And how weak willed is Monica? She’s a drug addict sure but how low are her maternal instincts that she’d actually let a lover talk her into going back to her family, just to take only the one kid?

[@weirdsistah]

Lmao the way Frank immediately sat tf down after Fiona told him to shut up has me weak 🤣🤣🤣

[@aliveinthetrenches]

This scene was done so so well. When she says “you were my mother too”, the way they mimicked each other while processing that statement, that curl into oneself with the body and face, that really reiterated the point that Fiona is Monica’s daughter

[@user-oz8no4du6m]

Lol, that "SHUT UP FRANK!", was personal hehe

[@tyresmith9833]

The earlier seasons of Shameless were amazing because of scenes like this. Monica and Frank were literally horrible parents. Fiona raised them kids all by herself. She was their mother, sister, protector more than anyone. Monica deserved nothing but the terrible karma she earned. She was a POS.

[@DavidConnors-k8y]

Parentification is CHILD ABUSE. Based on that alone, Monica shouldn't be left within a country mile of ANY child, much less her own. Monica should be locked up for the rest of her life.

[@missnotsoaverage]

What kind of karma did she earn

[@ndo533]

​@@missnotsoaveragedeath with 6 bags of cocaine and no one at her funeral

[@miscellaneousmedia3753]

​@@missnotsoaverage I believe we find that out in s7 episode 11

[@missnotsoaverage]

@@miscellaneousmedia3753 ah I don't have Netflix so I am afraid I won't be able to

[@kerriwright6800]

The you were my mother too always gets me no matter how many times I watch I start breaking down

[@ChrysBlackwell-k8i]

The way you see little Fiona come out after “YOU WERE MY MOTHER TOO”. The part of her who still wants her mom to love her and to be there peeking out. This was acted so well

[@josephhenson8663]

"you were my mother too" damn that hit fuckin hard, reminds me of my mom who never raised her kids, though the scenario was completely different

[@cassharrisn9699]

The way she yelled "You were my mother too!!" will ALWAYS choke me up. God what an actress she deserved better treatment by those directors fr.

[@dannygillmor2337]

If Lip had punched Bob's lights out, no one would have blamed him.

[@LolitsmeLalaj]

“U were my mother to” broke my heart into pieces I couldn’t sleep this show needs a perfect cast award I wish I had a sister like Fiona💗

[@BlaxkSun]

There’s so much in this scene. The moment they knew she way around everyone was like I know where this is going. Then the Fiona going in cause she stepped up to be a mother to the kids, then letting the last shred of the little girl she was out to get burnt away… it hit different

[@zarc745]

Liams giggle 0:34. 🥰🥰🥰

[@MayTheOddsBeInYourFavor]

Yo, V is hilarious. Not one of yours just came to rubber neck.

[@VincentTornude]

Fiona carried it all and got no love for it...I was so happy when she left them.

[@psycoticcinnomonbun1804]

And that ladies and gentlemen is why you fucking pay Emmy Rossum

[@Clouds._xx]

“I’m here now” that doesn’t excuse the abandonment she put through her kids. Fiona did all the work when she was only 9 years old, helping her family, being a mother when she was supposed to be a child. No child should go through that. Drug abuse, parental abuse and neglect, addiction, etc. I could go on and on with how it isn’t fair. Those kids shouldn’t have gone through that. Monica showing up one day just because she wants to start another family with someone else, go adopt? Don’t go back to the house thats full of trauma, addict, and neglect. She left her kids because she’s a shitty woman. But I’m happy that Fiona got her happy ending at the end of ‘Shameless’. But to be completely honest and fair and we can all agree, she deserved better from the very moment she was born.

[@tootiefruitygod6515]

Fiona: So IT'S A FREE COUNTRY GODDAMNIT!!! 1:53

[@keithpayne7754]

You can see the raw emotion in this. I get emotional everytime. She deserved an Oscar for this

[@christopherpacker1637]

3:22 fiona deserves better 😔

[@liezelbickle9430]

That so called "mom" shouldn't be allowed anywhere near those kids, if she hated being stuck with a bus load of children so much she should not have even gotten married in the first place. And that random black lady who thinks she's entitled to everything should be kicked out the only reason she showed up was so she could make excuses to kidnap the younger one and then what? Was the black lady just going to send all the other children to orphanage because they weren't black to? How dare that lady, the nerv of some people!!!😮😮😡

[@Sassafrass95]

that's racism for you, she hates all white people for things our ancestors did but yet refuses to look into the mirror and realize the only one spreading hate is her

[@Cdawg_cw]

Honestly the writing of shameless is just perfection, the best drama show I've seen through all 11 seasons

[@Jurian2004]

"I am so sorry If I hurt you." There is no if. You DID hurt them.

[@connorbingham6473]

You can feel and hear the pain in fionas voice

[@brettfavre3]

Fiona is the greatest and most complex character the show wrote. I understand there was contract stuff later on and they had to make her the bad guy. But before that she gave everything to everyone and then tried to do right by herself. It was so well written

[@semi9111]

The Introduction Sheila did for the Gallaghers' entrance was wow.

[@rachelknightonline]

Me who’s never seen the show: 0:06 HOLY SHIT IS THAT GOKU!?!

[@fortunelekoto6704]

and Bulma too!!

[@ghalibsohail9781]

Yh Steve/Jimmy and Fiona were in the DBZ evo movie (btw such a goofy movie).

[@monicareyes1712]

Terrible movie

[@jamezguard]

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@CreepyBlueAnimals84]

Emmy Rossum did a beautiful job here. Anyone remember that part in Look Who's Talking where Jimmy asks Mikey's bio dad "OK, if your the father and that's your kid, maybe you can answer a few questions for me.." then the guy couldn't answer any of them except the birthdate? That's what I would have liked to see Fiona do. Then, when Monica wouldn't be able to answer anything, Fiona could say "You're not a mother. Your just an egg donor. "

[@RebelPyrx]

“You were my mother too!” “Bebebebabebe” 🗣️🔥

[@evieglaves3624]

It never ceases to amaze me, the physical and emotional abilities actors are capable of.

[@grapelund]

Fiona’s reversion back to her own hurt by Monica is truly heartbreaking!!!

[@Duh_D_Rexx]

This always gets me…I grew up with a parent who was combo of Monica & Frank. I’m thankful though that my other parent wasn’t either of them. My brother & sister also recognize that too.

[@haseulibae7083]

"It's alright, I'm not one of yours. I'm just here to rubberneck." 🤣🤣

[@justcallmejessz3712]

Obviously, I am not the only one who thinks Emmy Rossum should have won a reward for this scene. But gosh darn does it need to be said again and again. 🎉😮❤s

[@joshestrada2230]

Out of the Fucking question, Roberta! I don't care Liam is Black he's part of family with us!

[@cche16]

the first of many scenes where she deserved an emmy/golden globe/sag award. she carried the show and was robbed of nominations and awards every year.

[@Skwaktopus133]

I love this because all the siblings are here with each other

[@OptimisticEgo]

1:45 “Done” 😂😭

[@pottytheparrot310]

He didn’t even hesitate 😢

[@Bittyboo14]

​@@pottytheparrot310 all he cares about is money

[@salazar556]

Emmy's performance here was amazing.

[@kendallpaige5136]

You can tell Fiona waited a long time to confront her mother. She just let Monica have it

[@raimonivan7092]

This was the best scene of Shameless history, in terms of acting

[@jermiahedwards8258]

Oh my god that is so wrong she wants to take him from his family just because he black ⚫️ like her family is family don't matter race 🤯🙃

[@Sassafrass95]

that's the problem with racism, so easy to point fingers and call an entire race horrible but refusing to look at themselves and realize they are the problem too

[@momsspaghetti-sd9sn]

The audacity of the "mom" to want to become their mom again

[@TheOfficialDirtyDan]

When Fiona leaves, you can hear Liam crying out “mama!” it broke my heart, man. You didn’t put that part in.

[@Beautybees2]

As someone who’s never watched the movie…oh my gosh I need to watch this

[@momsspaghetti-sd9sn]

I think it's a show but yeah it seems like a good show

[@christopherhamilton8853]

It's 11 seasons of this series

[@tezeractobi2932]

Lowkey this show was a lil disappointing after this scene. Hear me out she pointed out all the sibling accomplishments and fast forward to mid series Debbie rapes a guy then has a kid with another dude, Lip kicked out of university and became an alcoholic, Ian has bi polar disorder and becomes AWOL never to go back to the military, Fiona dips after selling out what was left of her real estate life, Carl is I guess the only one to have a nice outcome joining the police but had his ups and downs like how he was part of a gang. I thought the show would’ve gone a different route but I guess I still enjoyed it

[@Tamisleepin16]

You go Fiona!!

[@vanta7581]

​@dd4850lmao no she didn't they were all adults when she left

[@kristinwojtowich8902]

​@dd4850 oh she did not. She left them as grown ass adults to finally have her own life. Which she deserved

[@MW_Nova]

battle of the ugly cries lmao

[@MeghanBean]

I thought it was so beautiful 😭

[@orsat.ursus.strazicic]

MENTAL ILLNESS RUNS DEEP IN THIS FAMILY :(

[@MeghanBean]

Dang this just made me cry

[@Squishymallow18]

3:23 - 3:25 I feel how she felt cause when i really need mum she didn't even straight forward come to me, and I can't explain how much pain when my mum favor my step sister over me iknw i lived with stepdad, mum and sis but when she says she love both. The action nvr same like she said even I'm top class student it's nvr enough for mum

[@Alex-m8g4w]

this always makes me cry we need another season

[@KGPromiseGaming]

V's "It's alright, I'm not one of yours. Just came to rubberneck" is great. Little bit of humor to a serious scene.

[@raven3067]

Top tier acting right here.👌

[@leoj_carnage]

It's always the eldest one being the scapegoat of the family.

[@kelisgoulbourne9908]

Fiona said how about you finished this one first 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tom4150]

Early Shameless was so great. I sometimes forget how top notch it was, especially season 2.

[@MeganCordato1955]

Fiona is my hero. I admire her for taking care of her siblings like that and if it want for her then her siblings would be roaming the streets

[@jaylamiller8878]

I mean Monica leaves, comes back not only for her child but with another woman claiming that the child Monica wants HAS to go to them because he's part black? Frank was the father when they did the DNA test which doesn't help Liam because Frank is an awful father but that makes Monica a bad mother. All of those things Fiona listed off that the kids did, she acknowledged the fact that it was THEM who did it. Not her, them, they did it themselves with more help from Fiona than from Monica. Notice how Fiona is a grown adult taking care of all these kids, Ian is crying his eyes out because he doesn't know what to do or think, Lip is as pissed as Fiona and despite the fact that Debbie and Carl did hug their mother when she asked to be their mommy again, they immediately pushed her off if it meant losing Fiona. Because they look up to her, they have a role model and it isn't a great one because Fiona fucks up more than a few times but she has always tried to put the kids first, nobody can fuck up as much as all of those kids biological parents. It seems like they both really do care for their kids but when it gets hard, they leave or get drunk, or do drugs. It's bs, I'm glad Fiona raised all of the kids because in the end, they all turned up amazing.

[@melek1108]

Fiona : He doesn't even know who you are Monica : I'm his mother Liam : I don't know

[@bestie.bo0]

everyone was so unfair to Fiona in this show, its honestly not fair. She was a child, raising kids who werent hers.. she deserves more than they gave her

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

My god, Emmy Rossum is such a great actress!

[@codyaaron3371]

This is Emmy worthy. What a performance

[@macmillerluvr21]

“Well who else is there?” damn. Really shows how absent Monica was

[@ScoobyDoobyDoo25]

Frank turned into a good dad when he was dating Sheila, he didn’t even want to split his kids up when Monica and Roberta came to get Liam. If I was Fiona, I would be kicking and screaming.

[@bromodragone8405]

"Over my dead body!" Only if you insist on getting in the way.

[@philippeblais8594]

I do like that when Fiona is counting off all of her siblings' achievements, she does not take any credit for them when she started it with "It's about what i did."

[@matthewmead121]

The hurt in her voice says it all.

[@CR0WYT]

"It’s alright. I’m not one of yours." BRO

[@KrazyFoos]

Love this show barely got started in 2020

[@frostypizzaman1793]

The fact that she shows up after SO long probably brought up some negative feelings that were previously buried when she abandoned them.

[@princeofdatny]

“How about you finish this one first” I felt that

[@abbasraza_96]

I cried for days after that seen for fiona