http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/television/13893587.htm
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"My dad was a drug user and an alcoholic. So I lived off and on with my grandparents. Whenever my dad would get locked up, I'd move in with my grandparents and wait until he got out and got straightened out again."
Unbeknownst to Pickler, her mother returned to Albemarle (about 40 miles northeast of Charlotte). Their paths crossed in a chance encounter when Pickler was in the fourth grade.
"My grandparents and I were eating out and my mother was in there with some of her friends. I don't know how I knew it was her, but we made eye contact. She went to court trying to fight for custody of me."
Her mother won, Pickler said, and for the next two years had custody. "That whole time my grandparents were trying to get me back."
They eventually succeeded. Pickler's mother left. She and her daughter haven't been in contact for years. Her father, meanwhile, was arrested several times in North Carolina -- drunken driving, assault, armed robbery. "He'd get out of prison, get on drugs really bad, get tied up with the wrong people," she said.
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So, the questions rise. Who is that little boy? How old are you in the 4th grade. 9 or 10? Making 5th grade - 10 or 11. The boy is 6, Kellie is 19. She would have been 13 when the little boy was born.
Her paternal grandparents got custody of her from her mother, before that little boy was born.
Give her a pass on that one. This is a conservative website. Whether she's helping her grandfather raise her brother, or had a kid when she was very young and didn't get an abortion, she chose life and responsibility.
Did you see her with the kid? He's crazy about sis....or mom.