EXCLUSIVE: 'Meet your million dollar baby!' Sherri Shepherd's ex-husband implores the star to bond with their 18-month-old son as court confirms she is legal parent who must pay for his care

Sherri Shepherd's ex-husband Lamar Sally is relieved their surrogacy fight is over but now he has one more request for the star - spend time with your son.

'Right now Sherri still doesn't want anything to do with our son, whom we both wanted and decided to get a surrogate together. I hope over time that will change. LJ really needs a mom,' Sally tells Daily Mail Online in an exclusive interview.

'Sherri is going to regret what she has done to this kid,' says Sally. 'LJ is going to grow up and want some answers and so do I.'

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania refused to look at her case - allowing a lower court ruling that she is responsible for Lamar Jr., a child born to a surrogate before she and Sally divorced, to stand.

'Thank God, it's finally over,' says Sally. 'It's been very emotional and stressful, but now we can get back to taking care of LJ. 

Bonding time: Lamar Sally Jr., known as LJ, is now 18 months old and growing up without a mom. Lamar Sally, the ex-husband of Sherri Shepherd, wants the star to start having a relationship with their son 

Court ruling: Sherri Shepherd lost her appeal of a lower Pennsylvania court ruling that found her responsible for a child born to a surrogate before she divorced her former husband Lamar Sally (pictured together in 2013)

Shepherd's lawyers have argued that she should not have to pay child support for Lamar Jr, now 18 months old.

By the time he reaches 18 years old Sherri will have paid out more than $900,000 for his care - plus the $100,000 she paid to have the child born via a surrogate. 

Sherri, 48, and Lamar, 44, married in August 2011 and immediately started talking about having a baby.

However, they shortly learned Sherri was not able to conceive with her own eggs, so the two hired a surrogate.

Shepherd, former co-host of The View, broke the exciting news about the surrogate on the Rachel Ray show in September 2012 and she often talked about her marriage and the excitement of having another child on her own show.

But six months into the pregnancy Sherri shocked the world, and blindsided Lamar, by announcing she wanted a divorce and didn't want anything to do with the baby.  

The couple filed for divorce in May 2014. Then just three months later their son was born on August 5, 2014. Sherri and Lamar's divorce was finalized in July 2015.

Shepherd refused to be listed as the child's guardian on the final surrogacy papers after he was born and also refused to pay child support or any medical expenses.

As a result, the surrogate was listed as the mother and held legally responsible for the baby she agreed to carry for Shepherd and Sally.

The surrogate, Jessica Bartholomew, then filed a petition seeking a court order to name Sherri and Lamar as the baby's legal parents so she would not be held responsible.

A mother's love: 'LJ knows he is loved and there is always laughter in the house so he wants for nothing, but he needs a mom and it really tears me up inside because I know if Sherri spent time with him she would love him too'

Bitter fight: Shepherd and her lawyers were fighting to have her name removed from the birth certificate of Lamar Jr. but she must now continue paying $4,100 a month in child support and that will increase to $4,600 a month when he turns 13

Bartholomew was awarded that after a brief trial last March.

But Sherri continued to fight - and after Lamar turned down a one-time payoff of $150,000 for child support she took this case to the appellate court in Pennsylvania, where the surrogate lived and where there were no laws on the books about surrogacy.

Shepherd thought she had a legal right to walk away.

Prior marriage: 'Jeff reached out to me and he has been very supportive and since he's been through the same thing with Sherri he could understand what I was going through,' says Lamar. Jeff Tarpley is Shepherd's ex-husband with whom she shares a 10-year-old son (pictured together)

But the decision that Sherri was this child's mother and therefore responsible to pay child support was upheld in court. 

'Sherri was furious but refused to let it go,' Lamar reveals. 'She actually told me she would take this case all the way to the Supreme Court and that's exactly what she did.'

But her efforts came to a halt yesterday when the State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania made the decision to not look at the case.

The Pennsylvania court's ruling stands meaning Sherri is the mother of Lamar Jr. and will be held responsible for him until he is 18 years old.

Sherri will pay $4,100 a month in child support, which she has been paying her ex-husband, until Lamar Jr. is 13. Then that number will increase to $4,600 a month. 

'I still don't know what happened, to this day, I am baffled,' Lamar explains to Daily Mail Online. 

'It literally came out of the blue. Then Sherri started accusing me of defrauding her into getting a surrogate. How could I have made her get a surrogate? 

'The reality is Sherri paid the surrogate most of the $100,000 fee, so if you didn't want this child or even had some reservations why did she shell out so much money and why was she talking about it so much on TV? It was hurtful and untrue.

'But as a dad I had to protect my son's future and I am not talking about just money. It was important to me that Sherri's name was on the birth certificate because she is his mother and I didn't want him to feel abandoned.'

Sally reveals Shepherd is now keeping him from seeing Jeffrey, her 10-year-old son from a previous marriage to Jeff Tarpley.

'I was a father-figure to him for four years and she just cut it off. Sherri has no compassion, doesn't worry about the consequences of her actions, it's just all about her, all of the time,' says Sally.

Surrogate: Jessica Bartholomew filed a petition seeking a court order to name Sherri and Lamar as the baby's legal parents so she would not be held responsible for the child they asked her to carry

And as he was going through this surrogacy nightmare Tarpley contacted him for support. 

'Jeff reached out to me and he has been very supportive and since he's been through the same thing with Sherri he could understand what I was going through,' the LA based screenwriter adds.

'The only difference is - and it's a big difference - is that Sherri is a mother to their son, Jeffery.

'But, as fathers, these boys are brothers, they have the same mother and we are determined to make sure they know about one another and grow up spending time together.'

Lamar, who is teaching school in Los Angeles, says LJ  is a wonderful kid, always smiling and gets along with the other kids in his daycare very well, but there is one thing that breaks his heart.

'LJ calls a couple of my female friends 'mommy' and wants to cuddle and lay on their chest so he can hear their heart beat. 

'LJ knows he is loved and there is always laughter in the house so he wants for nothing, but he needs a mom and it really tears me up inside because I know if Sherri spent time with him she would love him too.'

Lamar says he and Sherri will be going to court one last time, but this time it will be to order her to pay his legal fees, which he says are well over $100,000.

Sherri currently has a recurring role on the Fox TV series Rosewood and she also recently signed on to star in NBC's new legal comedy pilot entitled The Trail alongside John Lithgow.