Jenelle Evans Recalls Nearly Dying From Heroin

It’s well-documented how Teen Mom 2‘s Jenelle Evans‘ drug use has negatively effected her life in a variety of ways. Now she opening up about how her heroin addiction almost killed her.

Last month, she first opened up about her addiction in some advanced passages from her upcoming book, Read Between the Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom.

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“My first trip was amazing. I won’t glamorize the drug by going into the long details of why people love it so damned much,” Evans shared with E!. “Before I knew it, I was shooting up four or five times a day. I was hooked.”

Now in a new interview with the outlet, she says her addiction brought her to death’s door. That rock bottom moment is what turned things around for her.

“I think my low point was with my drug issue and the whole heroin thing. I almost overdosed and died. I was trying to run away from my problems,” she said. “When I started withdrawing for the first time in my life, I was like, ‘This is not the way I want to live. This is scaring the s— out of me, and I need to get help right now.’”

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Evans wrote in her book that she turned to drugs after losing custody of her son Jace.

“The drugs always made the pain go away,” she wrote. “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.”

In the same interview as the heroin revelations, she also touched on her tumultuous relationship with her mother, who has primary custody of Jace.

“We are in the same situation,” Evans said. “You know we went to court about Jace and I got a visitation schedule set, but she’s still kind of bent out of shape because I still have resentment towards her for still keeping my son and we still butt heads.”