#TeenMomOG Ryan Edwards’ Addiction Backstory EXPOSED — Get Details HERE!

Ryan Edwards is in rehab fighting a pill addiction — and his MTV ex is spilling the backstory behind how the Teen Mom OG star got mixed up with drugs.  

Dalis Connell appeared on the MTV hit during their two year relationship, and spoke to Radar Online about Ryan’s crash and burn into addiction.

“One of his friends was on pills and he tried it one night when we first started dating,” Connell explained. “He started taking those while I was in class. I ran track in college and would be gone all day and he was bored.”

Ryan has appeared to hold only sporadic jobs over the course of the series — his “career” evidently one of a reality star.

Connell said that a co-worker finally confronted her about Ryan’s suspicious behavior.

“I have never been around drugs use so I didn’t know the symptoms,” she said. “I was working and my co-worker asked if Ryan takes anything. She was like, ‘I went to rehab and he fidgets and scratches and has all the signs of someone using.’ I didn’t believe her.”

Connell revealed that Ryan finally admitted the issue, eight months into their relationship.

“I walked outside and caught him in the middle of a drug deal and he confessed everything,” she said. “It got worse and worse.”

Ryan entered an outpatient rehab facility in December of 2012, to battle an addiction to oxycodone, according to Connell — but was not committed to the process. He relapsed a week later.

“He wasn’t interested in rehab,” she said. “We had to drag him there the first time. He never said he wanted to get better, he just wanted the withdrawals to stop.”

Ryan’s ex and mother to his 8-year-old son, Maci Bookout McKinney, exposed Ryan’s problem on camera, after months of drug use accusations flooded social media platforms. The seemingly timed disclosure aligned with Ryan’s submission to rehab. In another twist, Ryan quietly married girlfriend, Mackenzie Standifer, in the middle of the chaos. Standifer lost full custody of her 3-year-old son, Hudson, in April, in the midst of Ryan’s downward spiral.

Which do you think will win — Ryan or the pills?

Teen Mom OG airs Monday nights, on MTV.

 

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