Teen Mom star admits testing positive for drugs after giving birth but says she is clean

THE star of reality TV show Teen Mom has admitted she tested positive for drugs after giving birth to her baby — and now she’s paying for it.

'Teen Mom 2' star Jenelle Evans’ mugshot after she was arrested in South Carolina on charges of breaching the peace.

A CONTROVERSIAL reality TV star has courted controversy after admitting that she used drugs while pregnant with her daughter less than a year after admitting she nearly died of a heroin overdose.

Jenelle Evans’ past has been notoriously sketchy but the MTV Teen Mom 2 star says that despite the fact she has gotten her life back on track and that she’s “not a bad kid any more”, online speculation over her parenting methods is forcing Child Protection Services on her.

It comes after fans accused the star of child abuse after her son, Kaiser, begged for food on the TV show. The shocking footage sparked a Twitter backlash with the hashtag #SaveKaiser and cost the mother-of-three her job as an ambassador with Blue Apron.

In her memoir, Read Between the Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom, Ms Evans admitted that at the peak of her drug addiction she was using heroin “four or five times a day”.

“I was hooked,” she said of her abusive relationship, which saw her arrested for possession of marijuana and heroin, according to Radar.

Husband David Eason and Jenelle Evans attend the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Frazer Harrison

This week, Ms Evans appeared on The Brand podcast and admitted that while she was pregnant with daughter Ensley, she tested positive for THC, the principal psychoactive found in cannabis.

“I’m not going to lie about that. I tested positive for THC,” the reality star, 26, said.

Daughter Ensley did not test positive.

Ms Evans said the chemical compound was found shortly after she had given birth to her daughter just over one year ago after Child Protective Services asked her if she had smoked during her pregnancy.

“I said, ‘I did within the past 30 days,’” she explained.

“I said, ‘I have really bad esophageal spasms and I throw up every five minutes. I can’t eat.’ And they said, ‘OK, some mums do that. We are not here to judge. We are writing down your information.’”

She said that when Child Protective Services arrived for the wellness check, they closed the case soon after.

But then Ms Evans blamed online speculation over her parenting for at least 30 more visits from Child Protection, calling out “haters online saying that I abuse my kids”.

Despite promising she’s not using, viewers on the hit reality show, on which Ms Evans has appeared since 2011, aren’t so sure.

All jokes aside, someone should go to the land and make sure that those kids (more so Kaiser) are in a safe situation. They do not deserve to be witnessing what’s more than likely going on in their home.. #SaveKaiser #TeenMom2 #TeenMomOG #JenelleEvans #DavidEason

— leeeasha (@leashaboo89) February 21, 2018

“First of all, if I were on drugs I wouldn’t be able to sit here in the morning and get the kids ready and eat healthily. Or I’d be losing a lot of weight,” Ms Evans said.

But the young mum, who already has two children, sons Jace, 8, and Kaiser, 3 has a sketchy history with drug abuse, including a near-fatal heroin overdose in 2012.

“I was afraid to speak out and tell people that I was on drugs,” she told Us Weekly last year,

“I basically blacked out and woke up not remembering anything.

“I really was so close to dying.”

After her overdose Ms Evans described how she withdrew from the drug, describing it as “worst flu I’ve ever had for seven days”.

But by that stage the drug had already taken its toll; she had lost custody of son Jace and was “disowned” by family and friends.

“It hurt my heart, made me sick to my soul that I couldn’t see my son. I filled that hateful void with more drugs,” she wrote in her memoir.

“The drugs always made the pain go away. They didn’t turn on me or betray me. I guess heroin was my first steady, dependable lover. It gave me what I needed to live and I gave it my life. By this entry, heroin was the only thing I had in my life that loved me.”

Husband David Eason (L) and Jenelle Evans attend the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Frazer Harrison

According to Kidspot, a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association claimed that the rate of pregnant women using marijuana has increased 62 per cent

Marijuana is the “most widely used illicit drug among all pregnant women”, the website claims, and said there is “some cause for concern” of the effects of marijuana on a foetus.

“Infants of women who used marijuana during pregnancy were more likely to be anaemic, have lower birth weight, and require placement in neonatal intensive care than infants of mothers who did not use marijuana,” Dr Nora Volkow wrote in a paper, The Risks of Marijuana Use During Pregnancy, for the JAMA Network.

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