Teen Mom: OG star Amber Portwood got the message, and is determined to make the most of her second chance after serving 17 months in prison.
Most of us have had a wakeup call moment at some point in life, but most of us haven't done time stemming from drug abuse and domestic violence.
That will make one take a long, hard look at one's self, and for the Indiana native, it was what it took to finally get her troubled existence back on track.
"I didn't want people to have a bad taste in their mouth of things that happened in the past," she reflects. "I thought, 'this is my chance, don't blow it.'"
If you watch Teen Mom online, you know Portwood was big trouble from the onset, and has been to hell and back since the show last aired on MTV.
She made a drastic decision to report to jail back in June 2012 rather attend a court mandated rehab program after struggling mightily with addiction.
"The only thing I could see happening to me if I [hadn't gone] to prison is I would have died," the 24-year-old says looking back. "I would have overdosed."
"When you're an addict you know what your bottom is."
She made the choice for herself and her daughter, Leah, to get sober. It worked. She's not perfect, she says, and it's a constant battle, but it worked.
"Obviously I've had some speed bumps," Amber Portwood tells People. "But it's never too late to try to get your life back and do something positive."
"The whole time I was in there I worked my ass off," she says of her time behind bars. "There were hundreds of hours of drug addiction classes."
"I did extra classes, parenting and anger management and even started teaching. I put myself in there for a reason so I didn't want to make it a waste."
As for her combative relationship with ex Gary Shirley, who has another child on the way with Kristina Anderson, Amber says both have moved on.
"We're co-parenting the best that we can," she says. "It's not perfect and he still gets on my nerves, but we're happy with the people we're with."
For Portwood, that person is her new fiance Matt Baier.
"He's amazing, funny, caring, and loving," she says. "We want to be engaged for at least a year before we really jump into anything. "We want everything in place."
Baier, 43, has been the subject of several interesting rumors in recent months, namely that he was also obsessed with Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans online.
Matt and Amber reportedly broke up this winter, only to get back together, sparking speculation that this romance was being staged for the MTV cameras.
Whatever the case, the cast of Teen Mom: OG (for Original Girls, not Gangstas, sadly) return tonight on the network for the first time in three years!
Farrah Abraham, star of the original Teen Mom, went on to star in a porn video called Backdoor Teen Mom, which she tried to pass off as a "leaked" sex tape.
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