Amanda Conner maintains she’s sober following a drug relapse and wild arrest for DUI and child abuse in May— and now the judge in her case is requiring her to prove it!

The Ashley can exclusively reveal that a new judge has taken over the ‘Teen Mom’ alum’s criminal court case and, at her hearing on Friday, Judge Christie Sell ordered Amanda to now submit to weekly drugs screens. (Amanda had previously been ordered to only undergo random drug testing.)

It is not known at this time why the judge in Amanda’s case made the decision to up the number of Amanda’s drug tests.

As The Ashley previously reported, Amanda told fans that she had court on Friday and stated that she is attending several meetings a week to maintain her sobriety. (We can assume that Amanda is referring to Narcotics Anonymous– or NA— meetings.) 

Amanda was arrested on May 24 after her husband Ryan Edwards called the police and reported that Amanda was driving under the influence while their daughter Presley was in the car. Ryan told the cops that Amanda drove away after he tried to get her to take a drug test. Police tracked her down eventually, but Amanda refused to submit to a sobriety test, causing her to receive a charge of violating the Implied Consent law in Tennessee. Because Presley was in the car, she received the child abuse/neglect charge, in addition to a DUI charge and a traffic violation.

Days after her arrest, Amanda posted a video to social media in which she admitted to relapsing on drugs. (As ‘Teen Mom’ fans know, Amanda and Ryan met while they were both in in-patient rehab for substance abuse issues.) 

At the time of her arrest, Amanda was already on probation for causing an accident in February. It is unknown if her probation was revoked for that charge when she was arrested in May.

Anyway, the charges against Amanda remain pending at press time. She is next scheduled to appear in court on October 21. 

Sources tell The Ashley that Ryan’s parents Jen and Larry Edwards are not paying for Amanda’s legal fees/counsel for her latest arrest, which may explain why Amanda is constantly posting videos in which she’s trying to sell random stuff from the TikTok shop. 

“Jen and Larry said no way,” the source told The Ashley. “They may change their mind eventually but [Amanda and Ryan] were told they would not be giving Amanda the money to hire an attorney or anything. They have to pay for it themselves.” 

(Amanda is currently employed, though. She recently revealed that she cleans homes and restaurants for a living.) 

Although Amanda has kept her followers updated on her recovery, many fans have questioned whether Amanda is, indeed, sober, due to the chaotic (and sometimes just downright odd) videos she’s posted to social media since her arrest. In the comment section of a video posted on Friday following her court hearing, some fans wrote that they are skeptical of Amanda’s sobriety claims.

“Tweaking like a mf’er,” one person wrote in the comments of Amanda’s Facebook post. “Grow up and get clean, you got kids.”

“For someone just scrolling by, they would assume you are on something,” another person commented. 

(The Ashley should note, though, that Amanda has received plenty of positive and supportive comments on her videos as well.)

As The Ashley previously told you, Amanda’s case was originally assigned to Judge Gary Starnes, who is an acquaintance of the Edwards family and has handled many of Ryan’s criminal court cases. However, in May, Judge Starnes announced that he is fighting a brain tumor, so that is likely the reason he was taken off Amanda’s case. 

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