14 DAY TRIAL // Amber Portwood, who shot to fame on MTV’s successful and controversial reality series “Teen Mom,” is a free woman again. Sentenced to jail in 2012 for refusing to go to court-mandated rehab, she has been released on good behavior, only 17 months into her sentence.
Portwood was sentenced to 5 years behind bars, because she already had a history of drug abuse and violent behavior, including several arrests. She walked out after almost a year and a half of prison time, so she was naturally pleased with how things turned out.
Paparazzi welcomed her at the gate of the Indiana prison and, while she was being fitted with a microphone because there was an MTV camera crew on the scene (presumably to shoot some kind of special), they asked her several questions about her plans now that she was out.
TMZ has video. First of all, Amber says, she plans on going out to have something good to eat; then, she will be seeing her daughter, whose custody she hopes to regain soon. However, she refuses to answer one question about how many times she’d seen her daughter while in prison.
“We're told Portwood was granted early release due to good behavior, time served and the fact that she completed two unspecified prison courses while serving her time,” the celebrity publication says.
Considered one of the most troubled Teen Moms to have attained fame thanks to MTV, Portwood has been in and out of jail a lot, as well as in and out of rehab. She was also rushed to the hospital at least once after attempting to take her own life.
She served time after she got busted in December 2011 for possession and offered the choice to go to rehab or do 5 years behind bars. For some reason, she chose the latter, practically begging the judge to lock her up.