Teen Mom Confidential: Secrets & Scandals From MTV's Most Controversial Shows (16 page)

January 22, 2013:
Jenelle claims she was rushed to the hospital. Later that day, the administrator of her Facebook fan page updates fans on her condition: “Jenelle's conditions are not good, but cannot say more about what happened. Pray for her and the baby and also that certain people get what they deserve. She is very hurt and feels very betrayed.”

January 23, 2013:
Jenelle, fresh out of the hospital, blasts Courtland on
Twitter
: “I am getting a divorce, ASAP. YOU F**KING LEAVE OUT OF TOWN AND I MIGHT BE HAVING A MISCARRIGE?! F**K U, U F**KING PIECE OF SH*T.” Hours later, Jenelle's attorney, Dustin Sullivan, confirms that she has filed four charges of assault on a female with an unborn child against her husband. It's reported that Jenelle's skull had been fractured as a result of him hitting her. Courtland, who had fled the state by the time the charges were filed, tells
RadarOnline
“I did not hit my wife. This is not true at all.”

January 24, 2012:
Courtland appears on
Stickam
and declares that he and Jenelle made $20,000 for selling the story of her pregnancy to
Star
magazine. He also claims the baby might not be his, and says she cheated on him with a guy named Kris. Courtland insists he never hit Jenelle and that she bruised her own cheek. He also says that, despite her pregnancy, “she's still getting high. She's doin' all types of sh*t…Right now she's doin' pain pills, Xanax and smokin' weed.”

January 25, 2013:
While staying at Gary Head's house, Jenelle fears she is having a miscarriage and rushes to the hospital. Later that day, a friend tells
RadarOnline
that, “Jenelle lost the baby this morning. She's sad and upset, but she'll make it through.” Gary and Jenelle continue to tweet from the hospital, even posting photos of her hospital room. Gary insists that he and Jenelle are not romantically involved and that they are just friends. Courtland arrives at the hospital, but is turned away after he is told that Jenelle doesn't want him there. Later that night, Jenelle, Gary and friends hit the town, hanging out at several bars and posting photos of themselves online.

January 26, 2013:
Courtland rants on
Facebook
: “supposedly beat her and she just lost our baby 2 hours ago but all of a sudden there's no marks on her and she is taking Gary shopping… I am happy to screen shot that pic of her in the mirror singing she just took after losing our baby due to Xanax use!! I cannot wait to go to court and show this judge the truth about her she needs to learn that he is not the f***ing president and that she can't just make up some sh!t to destroy someone's life!”

February 6, 2013:
Courtland, still wanted on assault charges (filed by Jenelle), turns up in a South Carolina hospital. It's reported that he is there to detox off of drugs. He tells
RadarOnline
, “I've been under suicide watch and I don't even have shoelaces. All I want is my wife back. Jenelle is my best friend and I miss her.” Courtland's baby-momma Taylor tells fans on
Twitter
that Courtland will remain in the hospital for a week before turning himself into police.

February 11, 2013:
Jenelle's baby daddy, Andrew Lewis, appears on the
Teen Mom 2
season 3 reunion special and admits that he was physically abusive during their relationship.

February 12, 2013:
Jenelle and her ex, Gary Head, announce that they are officially back together - despite the fact that she is legally still married to Courtland.

February 25, 2013:
MTV reportedly sends Jenelle to rehab in Florida. “[Jenelle] is seeking treatment for her drug addiction issues and related stresses stemming from her tumultuous last few months,” a source tells
RadarOnline
. The website claims that Jenelle went to the treatment facility willingly.

March 1, 2013:
Jenelle and Gary Head split. That same day, she is released from rehab and immediately starts lashing out at Gary on
Twitter
.

March 5, 2013:
Jenelle checks into another rehab facility. “Jenelle was in great spirits before she went in,” a source told
RadarOnline.
“She is really hoping that she can get control of her life. She is bi-polar and she's had a really hard time balancing the medication she needs for that.”

March 6, 2013:
Jenelle's husband, Courtland Rogers, is arrested in North Carolina for his outstanding warrants, stemming from the abuse charges that Jenelle filed against him.

March 10, 2013:
Jenelle returns to her social media accounts, posting that she is once again out of rehab. Her stay lasted only lasted four days.

Late March, 2013:
Jenelle and Courtland get back together and try to rekindle their romance.

ARREST #8 - April 23, 2013:
Jenelle is taken into custody (again) when North Carolina’s finest catch her with 12 bindles of heroin. She is also charged with assaulting Courtland.

April 24, 2013:
Jenelle is kicked out of Courtland’s house by his mother.

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Jenelle's Real Addiction Is Fame

She's gone to rehab twice on MTV's dime - both reportedly for drug-related addiction issues - but there's only one thing, in my opinion, that Jenelle is addicted to: fame. She feeds off of the notoriety she's garnered from appearing on MTV. When something goes wrong in her life (or whatever relationship she's in at the moment), Jenelle makes a beeline for
Twitter
. She seeks validation from her 700,000-plus followers, but, sadly, more than half of them are probably only following her to watch the train wreck.

Jenelle's antics onscreen pale in comparison to her social media activity, essentially turning the show into a mockery of itself. It's quite ridiculous to watch an episode of
Teen Mom 2
that was filmed nearly a year ago in which Jenelle is claiming that she is “getting her life together,” all while her current life is playing out online like a white trash telenova.

In a few years, no one will be talking about Jenelle, and I fear that she's in for a rude awakening. It will be very hard for her to adjust to life off-camera and out of the spotlight. I foresee her continuing her hijinks well into the future, just to keep feeding her fame addiction.

Corey Simms cried tears of joy as he watched his 18 year-old bride, Leah Messer, walk down a makeshift aisle at their October 17, 2010 wedding in Charleston, West Virginia. The romantic affair - staged on a sunny Sunday afternoon at picturesque Coonskin Park - was like a scene plucked from a Hollywood movie. Leah stunned in the satin, ivory-colored Maggie Sottero gown her mother purchased for $1549, while Corey paid tribute to his Mountain State roots with a camouflage tie and vest under his black tuxedo jacket.

Watching the newlyweds toast to their future - with Coca-Cola! - and dance to John Michael Montgomery's “I Swear,” it was almost impossible to imagine that just six months later, they would be tangled in nasty public divorce, with rumors of cheating, lies and physical abuse rocking the
Teen Mom
universe. It was a lethal combination of infidelities, money problems and pressures from becoming overnight celebrities that doomed the proud parents of 15 month-old twins Aleeah and Aliannah from the moment they said, “I do,” Leah's mother Dawn Spears says. “Do I think [the show] enabled a bunch of drama issues for these kids? Yes I do,” she says. “Drama sells.”

Longing For Her Father's Love

Leah may have been young when she married, but Dawn was even younger. She met Leah's father, Gary, at her church and after a short courtship, began begging her parents to allow them to marry. They reluctantly agreed, on the condition that the young couple didn't have children for at least two years. But that didn't work out. “I got married at 16 and got pregnant [with Leah] two months later,” Dawn says. “So I was 16 and pregnant too - but I was married first!”

As a child, Leah was “wild…but a good kid” -- a lot like her daughter Aleeah, Dawn remembers: “If you watch her story, she is so determined, like nothing's going to stop her from making it. She's been like that since she was little.” Leah, one of three children, was in kindergarten when her parents decided to split. She was particularly close with her father - a real “Daddy's girl,” Dawn remembers. “But [after the divorce] they didn't have much of a relationship because he would call and promise them stuff for Christmas, or say he was coming to see them, and they'd sit and wait on him and he'd never show up. She'd sit there crying, waiting for him to show up and he'd never come around.”

Dawn believes the absence of a consistent father figure in Leah's life may have enticed her to marry at such a young age. “All her life all she wanted was a relationship with her daddy,” Dawn says. “She yearned for that. It was a constant letdown for her. I think that's what her thing is, with relationships and men. For some people, it just affects them for the rest of their lives.”

Dawn, a dental office associate, remarried just two months after her divorce was finalized and admits Leah was reluctant to accept her new stepdad, Lee Spears. “For the longest time they didn't get along because she thought he was trying to replace her daddy,” she says. “They did [start getting along] later on, but she gave him a rough road. Her stepdad raised her from kindergarten on.”

As a teen, Leah thrived. A popular cheerleader at Herbert Hoover High School, she got good grades and never had a problem making friends. She started dating Robbie Kidd around age 13 - a relationship that lasted three years. When the romance fizzled out in early 2009, Leah, a sophomore, hooked up with Corey, a senior at nearby Clay County High School. Leah previously dated one of Corey's good friends, her own best friend, Amy LaDawn Nichols, tells us: “After her and that guy split up, she went out with Corey and that's how they ended up together.”

One month into their relationship, Leah attended her school's prom - without Corey. He didn't want to attend, but stopped by Leah's house to take pictures before. Later that night, they met up for an unprotected romp in the back of Corey's truck. That's when they have speculated the twins were conceived.

Dawn admits that she knew her daughter was sexually active and did her best to promote birth control. “I had her on the [Depo-Provera] shots,” she says. “She missed a month in between getting shots, and that's when she got pregnant.”

The day Leah got the news, Dawn was on a business trip about an hour from home. The couple drove to her hotel to break the news. “I always told my children that I don't care what it is, don't hide anything from me,” Dawn remembers. “You can come and tell me everything. We've always had a really close relationship.”

Though shocked by Leah's announcement, Dawn says she immediately pledged to support her daughter while others - most notably, Gary - did not. “My dad didn't like the idea at all,” Leah told
Entertainment Weekly
in 2010. “He's not really around, but he called me said some pretty harsh things. Things that really hurt. But he's not around so he can't really say much. And my stepdad didn't talk to me for a little while. It was really upsetting to know that I hurt him. I was five months pregnant when we started talking again.”