"Teen Mom 2" Jenelle Evans is opening up about some very dark times in her life in her new book. The MTV mother of three revealed in her memoir that when she was a teenager she contemplated suicide while living under her mother Barbara's roof. In the book, which features real diary entries from Jenelle's personal journals, she reveals that she seriously considered killing herself as a young teen.
Jenelle documents her teen years in new book
According to Radar Online, a diary entry dated August 20, 2005 reveals that Jenelle Evans was grounded for hanging out with an 18-year-old when she was only 13.
The "Teen Mom 2" star wrote that she believed her mother Barbara didn't love her anymore and that she wished Jenelle would "drop dead." Evans writes that she had no one that loved her and that she wanted to tell her mother that she was "sorry for being born" and called herself an accident. Later, in her diary she stated she was dating a boy named William, and that she had planned to kill herself and film it.
Evans reveals shocking details of her life
The "Teen Mom 2" star also wrote about cutting herself, revealing that it "wasn't anything serious" and was only a few scratches. However, Jenelle Evans claimed that it was the first and last time she would ever do that. Jenelle says she heard other kids at school talk about cutting, and how it helped relieve stress, so she decided to try it herself in hopes of getting over the bad stuff that was happening in her life.
The 'TM2' star has come a long way
When "Teen Mom" fans met Jenelle Evans she was an older teenager and pregnant with her first child, Jace. Jenelle's relationship with her mom was still strained and the father of her child, Andrew, was absent. Later, Jenelle got herself into a lot of trouble. She was arrested many times, started using drugs, and dating many different men.
Evans gave birth to her second child, Kaiser, while in a relationship with Nathan Griffith. However, things didn't work out and the two split. Later, she met David Eason and welcomed her third child, a daughter named Ensley. The couple are still together and planning a fall wedding.
Jenelle's life now
Jenelle Evans recently built her dream home, has graduated from college, and has been clean and sober for years.
However, she currently doesn't have custody of her oldest son, Jace, after signing custody over to Barbara when he was a baby. The "Teen Mom 2" star has been battling her mother for custody of Jace for years, and the fight has nearly destroyed their relationship. Fans can read Jenelle's story by buying her new book, "Read Between The Lines: Diary of a Teenage Mom."
