Leah Messer Details Violent Past in New Memoir, Including a Fight Club and Being Charged With Juvenile Assault

Teen Mom 2 star Leah Messer has a new book coming out next month titled Hope, Grace & Faith which will be available next month (pre-order it here!). The memoir not only deals with Leah's experience on the MTV series, but also her "struggle to rise to the challenges of motherhood, through her harrowing journey to find a diagnosis for one of her twin girls with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and the collapse of two marriages."

Although fans of Teen Mom know Leah as a doting mother-of-three, in her memoir she reveals that her personality used to be quite different. In an excerpt from Leah’s book obtained by The Ashley, the reality star detailed being in a fight club in her younger years. “I was tougher than I looked…we used to be part of what I can only describe as an elementary school Fight Club,” Leah writes in the excerpt. “Every day at recess there would be these prearranged fights...You’d be down on the ground wrestling, pulling hair, punching and kicking each other, doing whatever you had to do to stay in the fight."

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The reality star says in the book that her elementary school wrestling career cooled down until one fateful day in high school that led her to be charged with juvenile assault.

When a new girl was getting a little too close to Leah's high school boyfriend for her liking, things went south, even though the TV personality had "already gotten a warning about fighting in school." In her memoir, Leah describes how she "just snapped" and it felt like the age she had "simmering under the surface had finally boiled over." She continues to describe what happened, saying, "I didn’t give her a warning or time to run away. I just walked up to her and punched her in the face. She was definitely shocked, but it only took her a second to fight back. And then it was just an all-out brawl."

Leah caused quite a bit of damage to the other girl, but also to her own family, who suffered financially and legally due to the incident. “I had beaten the girl so badly that she ended up in the hospital and her family pressed charges against me for juvenile assault,” Leah writes in the book. “I was suspended from school for three days, I had to see a parole officer once a month for six months, and my grandma had to pay the girl’s hospital bill.”

Seems like Leah has changed quite a bit since we first met her on MTV. Hopefully, the mom's story just goes to show that violence is never the answer. Hope, Grace & Faith will be released on on May 5.