This is a post that is taking me forever to write. I am going to try to give you a history of the facts and my observations of the concerning Kathryn Calhoun Dennis and how her drug use has led to her losing custody of her children. It is a fact that Kathryn Calhoun Dennis lost custody of her children after failing a court ordered drug test. After failing that test she went to rehab to get herself together.
Please note, at that time and since the very beginning of the show, Tamaratattles.com has been extremely supportive of Kathryn. The site was at times harassed for being one of the few sites that fully supported Kathryn. We did not even report on Kathryn going to rehab in the first place, or the failed drug test despite being one of the first to know about the situation. We were rooting for her to turn things around. Even when she returned to Charleston and reports came to us a few short weeks later that she had relapsed we said nothing. We continued to hope for her to recover.
It was not until the report by Daily Mail who cited COURT DOCUMENTS that we realized how serious the situation was. That was in April of 2017 when Daily Mail reported, “Court documents seen exclusively by DailyMail.com show that Kathryn Dennis has been evading the mandated drugs and alcohol tests since last November and now risks being held in contempt.” Daily Mail quoted court documents. Daily Mail is too large of a site, with too many lawyers to make false drug abuse claims and quote from false court documents. That would be a huge legal issue for them. They simply would not do it. But if they did, Kathryn would certainly sue them, or at least send a cease and desist and make a public statement to clear her name. I’ve been researching legal cases for years and I find the court documents cited by Daily Mail to be credible.
Today, someone randomly emailed me the following, “Kathryn Dennis: Her drug tests have been made public. She’s passed them all.” I was excited to hear this news. As I recall, the last thing I heard was that she finally submitted to a hair test. It is around the time to hear the results. If she passed, as the person claims, she should be able to see her kids soon. That would be fantastic because it has been several months since anyone was aware she had a visitation. The last time we know of that she was in the same room with her children was at Saint’s recent Christening. And that event, according to sources who were present, went very badly and first hand accounts claimed that Kathryn was acting very strangely to say the least. So I went looking for publicly released tests.
Before I tell you what I found. I feel the need to mention two things. This site is quite fond of Reality Tea. The editor there in particular has always been very supportive of this site. I consider her a mentor. I have asked her for advice on numerous occasions. They are good people. I have also had contact with Amy Feinstein a writer for Inquisitr. We follow each other on Twitter and have had discussions regarding Kathryn in the past. Amy is a very good friend to Kathryn and believes the accounts of the situation that Kathryn provides her with. I have not spoken to the gals at Reality Tea about this issue but I believe that both the site and the Amy who is the guest author of the article I am about to discuss believe the information to be true.
Yesterday, Amy Feinstein wrote an article for Reality Tea that can be found here. It was conveniently posted on the day that a new episode of Southern Charm aired. The title claims that “after months of false accusations, Kathryn Dennis shares ALL drug test results.” OH YAY! Let’s see them! How ould everyone have been so wrong about Kathryn! I feel bad!
Oh wait. It’s one form and Amy’s promise that she has seen all the rest. Now I’m back to worried.
“Up until now Kathryn took her tests each week, and every month, and passed, and results were sent to the court, and those involved in the case had access. She has gone as far as to also purchase a breathalyzer to prove that she has also been avoiding alcohol.” Amy Feinstein according to her source, Kathryn Dennis.
So what about this?
“Now court records seen by DailyMail.com seem to back up Ravenel’s assertion about drug addiction and reveal that Kathryn has been stalling for close to five months, failed to show at a court appearance last December and has been threatened with jail – should she persist in her refusal to take the test.
Her own attorneys’ attempts to contact Kathryn on the day of her no-show and give her an opportunity to appear proved futile. The judge concluded that Kathryn ‘has been evading the drug and alcohol testing required’ and instructed her to ‘submit to immediate drug and alcohol testing or to report to the Charleston County Detention Center or the Berkeley County Detention Center.” Daily Mail according to the court documents.
Kathryn denies this…
“Making sure that my tests are absolutely clean each month is the most important thing I have ever done. That is the only way I can get shared custody of Kensie and Saint, and that is what I am doing.” ~Kathryn Dennis.
Each month when Kathryn does a hair test, and each week when she does a urine tests, the results are sent directly to the lawyers, and to the court, and each time, Kathryn has passed. She has also agreed to continue to share the results, and she vows she will continue to pass. Amy Feinstein, sourced by Kathryn Dennis.
But what about the proof of passing all of her tests? Well they offered this photo which purports to be a drug test from February showing that Kathryn passed her hair test. Please note, Kathryn’s hair test that the courts have been asking for repeatedly only occurred a couple weeks ago if she actually showed up. That test would be due back about now.
Here is the test result that was offered.
Because I am very through, I wanted to read other hair follicle drug tests from Quest and see what they look like and how to read them. So I googled and there was ONE image of a Quest test that came up. Here is that one.
Ironically, the only similar test I could locate happened to be on a site that sells detox shampoo that is supposed to help you pass a hair test. It happened to be a drug test from Charleston, South Carolina. It also happened to be from the same doctor, Ruth Dehaven that administered Kathryn’s hair test. That could be a coincidence though. After all this place sells the detox specifically for marijuana. As you can see this person tested positive for marijuana. It is odd that their test was exactly the same amounts that Kathryn’s test shows. The googled image shows that amount to be positive. That is curious. Also, the googled copy has the crappy fax machine blurs while Kathryn’s is very neat and clean. The tiny little numbers at the bottom indicating page numbers and the fax machine number are a bit different.
So there is the one test randomly selected from February for your review. I found that interesting.
Remember this?
Each month when Kathryn does a hair test, and each week when she does a urine tests, the results are sent directly to the lawyers, and to the court, and each time, Kathryn has passed. She has also agreed to continue to share the results, and she vows she will continue to pass. Amy Feinstein, sourced by Kathryn Dennis.
Well the court documents provided by Daily Mail said…
Clearly frustrated, he [the judge] noted that Kathryn had repeatedly failed to provide medical records and ruled that, as Kathryn herself had ‘introduced her mental condition as a claim or defense…that she is a fit and proper parent to have custody of the minor children,’ she waived any right to privilege and gave the court ‘good cause’ to require the release of ‘any and all of her mental health records.’ Daily Mail, sourced by Court Documents.
So clearly we have two different accounts with two different sources. One side claims that Kathryn has passed all of her tests since she returned to Charleston “just before labor day.” Actually, Kathryn returned to Charleston in early August, but okay. The other source claims that she has missed court dates, and refused to release her medical records and had not been going to get drug tested.
If we choose to view them both as equally likely to be true, then we must look at observable actions. Since Kathryn returned home, she had visitation very briefly after a clean test post rehab. Then, visitation was abruptly stopped. We have not seen any visitation photos of Kathryn with the children on weekends in months. We do see them on weekends on Thomas’ social media. One can presume based on that observation that the children are with the father nearly, if not totally exclusively.
We have numerous first hand accounts of Kathryn’s behavior upon returning from rehab. She did not choose to stay with her parents but starting staying with old friends and taking up old habits. She has given interviews stating that the people at rehab said she didn’t even really need rehab. She disrupted her child’s christening.
Kathryn says none of that is true. In the Reality Tea exclusive, Amy wrote, “Kathryn has had to learn a tough lesson, which is that there are some people out there who will make things up, whether it’s to be hurtful, or just for attention (or maybe because they were not asked to return to Southern Charm this season). Either way, Kathryn has spent months turning the other cheek, and not responding on advice of counsel.” All of this is the fault of her former very supportive friends who want to see her fail. Nothing we have heard is true. She has been clean and sober since Labor Day.
So why has she not seen her children in months? Why did her lawyers only give her permission to tell us that she is sober on the day Southern Charm airs? Why is she low key threatening to sue people connected to Southern Charm for planting false accusations in the media now?
I hope that Kathryn got to see her kids on Mother’s Day. I saw no evidence of that on either parents Instagram.
There are two very different stories being told. I will leave it to you to determine which story makes sense to you. As for me, I am going with the court documents, the eye witnesses, and the testimonials to me both those I have published and those I have not from old friends who are heartbroken and angry over Kathryn. I wish I could believe Kathryn again, like I used to in the same way Amy Feinstein does now.
But I do not.
Glad you posted about this. I was so confused reading the article on Realitytea yesterday.
I still don’t believe her either. Sad situation.
Quest Diagnostics is a huge company. I’m 2 years sober, take monthly drug tests and my labs also come back from Quest Diagnostics… and I’m in Chicago! It’s not really a big deal that her labs look similar to something online because they all are that way. Also I live in the second largest city in the US and there are not many doctors who are addiction specialists. So it’s not fishy to me that the doctor’s name is the same.
Just wanted to share my first hand experience. Good luck Kathryn! I really hope she’s OK.
I’d like to be Team Kathryn too but I’m with you, not enough evidence to show she’s legit sober. She’s so young though. I don’t think she can get it together yet, she still has some partying to get out of her system, children or not. It’s just in the southern blood.
She is not that young. When I was her age I worked full-time as a paralegal and came home and helped my husband raise his 3 sons from a previous marriage and his 2 step-sons who had no where else to go. If you have children who depend on you, grow up and take care of them.
I meant she’s so young in the sense she’s not ready for babies because of her personality, not because of her age. Does that make sense? She’s still a partying teenager…..
No, that does not make sense. There are plenty of teenaged mothers who grow up and take care of their kids.
OMG I have NOTHING against teenage mom’s. I am so sorry if you were offended by what I said, and clearly you don’t understand what I”m trying so say about Kathryn and her upbringing and the south, so I apologize to you, I honest to GOD do not look down on teenage mom’s or anything LIKE THAT. I hope you understand that.
I didn’t take it that way, I just meant that Kathryn is mid twenties and plenty old enough to handle her business,
That must be the same author that printed the story about Jennifer that was untrue. They didn’t ask for her side of it and it was so clearly biased, Kathryn could’ve written it herself.
I don’t get that type of “reporting.” It’s clearly PR, not “news.” A bit disappointed, as I like that site, too. Not sure why’d they’d want to hurt their reputation with clearly false information.
That site has been downgrading their content for a while now…
I’m sorry to break it to you but none of these sites are “news” or “reporting”
Which is why I couched reporting in quotes. Although I don’t expect journalism, I came to expect more than than such a blatantly biased entry.
Unfortunately I’ve been around a # of opioid & heroin addicts. In that scene where she was talking to Elizabeth & JD she seemed off. Something in her eyes. I remember reading something that Kathryn only stayed sober about a week? Are we going to see her relapse on the show so Landon can make fun & berate her some more??? God I hate Landon
Landon acts entitled. She’s horrible. But I want her to hook up with Thomas because it will be funny. I’m a horrible person.
We all are! I’d love to see it. Arranged marriages…
It was her fake eyelashes I wanted to reach into the TV and pull them off her. Too heavy.
Ha I thought her fake eyelashes were so weird this season. Also I have heard that Kathryn left rehab early and did not completely it.
I was a Kathryn supporter since the beginning, and followed her on Twitter, etc. I even bought some of the products Kathryn was promoting on social media. I felt bad for her–she’d been taken advantage of and outsmarted by a wealthy, older dude. Now– not so much. What made me skeptical was an Amazon link Kathryn posted purporting to give $5 to first time users of the Amazon app. I got the app, went to buy something, and got a message that $5 was being sent to Kathryn Dennis. I didn’t complete the transaction. Shady. If she’d passed every drug test, you’d think Kathryn would at least have had supervised visitation.
IIRC, that promotion would credit the new user’s account with $5 and would send $5 to the person who posted the link. Not shady. She’s an addict but Hes not swindling the public, yet.
Wow Tamara. Thank you for this. Your blogs are better than these reality shows!
Seriously.
I’m going to go with what I know. TT has yet to give me reason to doubt what she knows or believes. Hard to not go with that.
She needs to drop the facade. Her life would improve greatly just by taking that one step. She’s too concerned with what we think of her as a mother. I’d be telling the press that my children are with their father right now because he’s better able to provide for them at this time. We both want the very best for our children. Thank you. And then leave it at that.
Yep. Exactly. I wish she wasn’t so concerned about reality tv. She needs someone to help her lay low for awhile and get her life back together quietly.
I was one of the few or many who tweeted that I was so happy she had some “receipts” now to show her truth…#Sigh I really really wanted this to be true but I just can’t believe what she tells us anymore. I am going to continue to pray for her to get well & stay well. This sad saga continues…
I am still curious to know if this was due to the way Thomas had treated her. I have watched the first 3 seasons to try to see something I may have missed. I also go back to the episode this season with Eliza & Thomas talking in the barn. Eliza said that when she met Kathryn she was a sweet pregnant girl who was sober, so when did she become this bad-tempered woman who can’t stay sober to even get her kids back? Then of course the two of them do the obligatory Kathryn bashing as done on most episodes that include the dolphin and Thomas. I’m curious because I was so rooting for her to make in spite of Thomas & now it seems to me at least that he had something to do with her fall. I get that he’s a good Dad blah blah blah… but something just isn’t adding up with him. I think that not only does Kathryn have so much anger towards Thomas for all the cheating, broken promises etc… but it seems like she fears him for what he could further do to her. Maybe more episodes will shed some light on this for me.
Thanks so much for posting this TT. ❤️
Like most of us, Eliza didn’t know. And I wanted to thank you so much lillybeth, You always hit the tweet button at the end of posts you like and it makes my life so much easier to retweet you rather than creating my own tweets over an over. I GREATLY appreciate it.
❤️ Anytime and I hope you know how much your appreciated for all the hard work you do to keep us all informed and entertained on a daily basis ❤️❤️
I recently watched seasons one and two on demand. I was shocked at how calculated Kathryn’s behavior was from the outset. A one night stand with Thomas. Then with Shep. Then she slept with Whitney – later confessing that she did so solely to attend a party with Whitney that she knew Thomas would attend. Perhaps that is why she slept with Shep as well?
At the party – she tells Thomas that she may be pregnant with his child. I suspect that was a lie – because when he embraces her she says, “I’ve missed you so much.” Do you say that to a one night stand?
Thomas states that she handled the pregnancy scare with maturity and class. Perhaps because she knew she was not really pregnant? Because she doesn’t handle anything with maturity and class from that point on. Announcing that the election party is “her and Thomas’ party” and yelling F*CK OFF with the obscene hand gesture to Landon? She seemed like a sociopath – right from the beginning IMO.
She has always been the most calculating and manipulative of the bunch. I think she got away with it as the others entitled behavior is such a turn off.
I have thought the same many times. I remember early in Kathryn and Thomas’ relationship, Kathryn was in the car with Cameran I believe, and she mentioned that Thomas said that he will absolutely marry her if she gets pregnant. Soon after she was pregnant. They barely knew each other. This scene and many others made it seem to me like she was manipulating this relationship. I don’t know if for money or stature or because she was in love. I always had a hard time feeling bad for her. As far as Thomas go, he is his own kind of mess. Wouldn’t touch that with a ten foot pole lol
Being a mother of a former drug addict, I pray for the reports that she is actually clean and serene. I am so blessed that my son is now clean and serene for 20 months and living a good life. The only thing worse than being a parent of an active addict, is being the parent of an active addict that has children. My heart aches for the Dennis family, and I just hope and pray Kathryn is truly clean and serene and these test reports are true. It’s no longer about Kathryn vs Thomas in a stupid reality tv show, it’s all about these children. They deserve to have two healthy happy parents who can find a way to coparent these two beautiful children. Thomas and Kathryn once loved each other, with professional help and guidance, I truly believe they can find their way to invest that love in raising their children.
TTFAN, first and foremost I want to congratulate your son on his sobriety! I myself am 2 years sober & in my 20’s. It took me a long time to get where I am today and I had a whole lot of love and support from my family. THANK YOU for sharing! Finally someone else has actual experience with drug addiction. I am so so so lucky to be sober and healthy. I cannot imagine trying to get sober under the circumstances Kathryn is. It is so hard, the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I personally find it disgusting the way people are treating her like she’s some kind of horrible human being. She’s simply lost and she has a disease. With the right help I know she can change and be the person she wants to be. Good luck Kathryn! <3
Two crossed hairs puts Kathryn in the line of fire. Can she handle a shot of truth?
Not at all, it appears.
It seems Kathryn is a student of Brooks Ayers.
It appears to me as though she’s tried to pull a Brooks. Taking a random example online quest labs form and doctoring it to show her name and negative results except for the unexplainable marijuana readings being the same on the example and her forged one, but the results being positive on the example and negative on hers. WTF?
WTF indeed.
The results are not the same on Kathryn’s test and the online test. The amounts that are listed to the right of the “positive/negative” area are the threshold amount that the lab tests for. Which is why for all of the tests on both lab reports, the amounts are the same. If you read further down on the online test, you will see that the result for marijuana was 6.7.
It also looks like her hair sample was taken two days before it was tested. The sample was taken in Charlestown and sent to the lab in Kansas where they received it 2 days later and tested it on the same day, after 9PM, so I don’t think it’s too crazy to suggest that they would not have tested it the same day it was received in the lab since it seems like it was tested late in the day.
I’m not at all sure that I believe this to be really Kathryn Dennis’s test, but just wanted to let everyone know how I read the test so that we’re not denying the test for the wrong reasons.
Is that Brooks’ medical report?
lmfao
You can be #TeamKathryn and still not believe her bullshit. Welcome to the wonderful joy known as loving an addict. I am really pulling for this girl and those lovely kids, but based on my lengthy experince with addiction, every word Kathryn has spoken this season has been a lie.
Master puppeteers tugging at heartstrings the second greatest show on earth.
Personally, I think she was a spoiled little bitch before the drugs. Pure narcicist. I don’t think Thomas was the one who turned her onto drugs as some folks believe. I think her issues are beyond drug abuse and a nasty personality. She fell hard for Thomas and he thought with his dick and not with his head and now there are 2 young ones without a proper mother figure in their lives at such an incredibly young age. I pray the nannies love those little ones as their own, if not more.
Thomas may be a jerk but I do think he would let her see her kids if everything was ok. I am still suspicious and will only be swayed when her visitation with her kids starts again.
OMG… am confused, i was hoping Kathryn will beat hèr addiction. Really sad
She still can. She just hasn’t yet.
Turning into a public relations battle. Very messy and sad.
I hoped the RT story was accurate even though not defied sense. The court has said she had been out of compliance. I do think the crux of the issue is a personality disorder or mood disorder or both. She appears to be a classic narcissist … maybe borderline pd? MDs are so much easier to treat than PDs. Unfortunately, Thomas seems to enjoy poking the bear and besmirching the children’s mother when he should quit shit talking and support efforts to get help. Thomas himself is a bearly tolerable narcissist. The poor kids. Kathryn is somewhat delusional and trying to be the star in her own movie but the image is gilded faux. I wish her luck.
The armchair diagnosis are unwelcome but prevalent here. The courts have mad reference to her mental condition. It is unnecessary to speculate about what that might be.
Kathryn’s document is fake. She made a mistake on one of the dates. The report date and log-in date will not be the same, and rarely so for a stat result.
She is smart enough to know that this document will never be seen by a judge because she will have a fraudulent document charge.
However, the letter she wrote to Thomas with one period was pathetic.
what letter?
It appeared in the preview for next week.
To be fair, the “amounts” that are the same are the results range. Anything above that threshold of concentration will be reported. Anything below that concentration may not appear. The labs have to show what their results range are for the courts. So, if the same lab is running the test, the range that their tests pick up will be the same.
Having said that, it sure looks like the “log in date” and “report” date look like 2/32/17 to me. So…
Bear in mind, too, that in court cases, lab reports are sent directly to the court administrater. Parties don’t bring their own results in. Her story is very different from the court record, and court records don’t like.
Btw, Thomas posted pictures on instagram of his new piece, some Landon lookalike thirsty RN/wannabe model of instagram from California. He posted it on Mother’s Day and pictures surfaced of him and the new girl out with Kensie on Mother’s Day. As others have said, no one can cause someone else’s addiction…but, damn, does he love to throw a match on gasoline and watch it burn
The date is 02032017.
02/03/2017
There is nothing wrong w the dates in that regard.
As to another comment here about the dates should not be the same? This is not true. Very often the lab will run the tests late in the day. It depends when it is collected. What type test etc. Nothing odd w that.
I am a nurse working in mental health/addiction arena. Nothing is off w this issue.
They also always put the ranges. Every lab has a range set. They are not always the same from one facility to the next.
As to Kathryn and sobriety? I wish she was sober. I too have a child in recovery and it hits home. I see many similarities here. I am w TT here. Lack of visitation says EVERYTHING!
I hope she gets sober. Those kids nees their Momma.
lol I’m glad you read that closer than I did!
Dura’s girl, the question about the amounts is regarding the pot levels only. They are exactly the same on both documents but on the googled document the amount is a POSITIVE finding while the same amount on the one Kathryn says is hers is marked negative.
The 1 pg/mg is the sensitivity level of the test. Any concentration above that is considered positive. A positive test is ran again at a higher sensitivity (0.1 pg/mg). On the Internet test, he tested positive at 6.7 pg/mg. Her test was negative.
I wonder if Thomas allows the children’s grandparents, from the Dennis side, visitation. Or any of Kathryn’s extended family. I’d be sick with worry over a child with a drug addiction and I’d be devastated if I was alienated from my grandchildren due to my child’s choices.
IMO Kathryn’s been getting her drugs from someone close and accessible. I wonder why that someone hasn’t been paid to come forward and spill the tea? I believed her lies until TT did the hard work to get to the bottom of it. I will continue to get my facts from TT. Hoping Kathryn realizes sooner than later what’s at stake. Is she allowed to drink alcohol?
Does Quest do the testing for charleston In a Kansas lab when they have a couple of centers in/around Charleston?
My understanding is the hair sample are sent off because there are not as many places that do that particular test.
I’m here in Greenville SC and my Quest lab is local…
The DM is not considered to be a reliable source. Melania Trump just recently settled with them.
They are when they are quoting court documents.
Thank you TT for getting to the bottom of this mess. I saw the other reports and did not believe them. Kathryn looks like something is wrong and I pray she can just get strong for her kids and for herself.
One more thing to add – we all assume she wants her children back but it may very well be that she does not. I keep saying I don’t think her plan was to be a single mother. I believe their “break up” changed everything for her. She isn’t able to live the life she wanted with two young ones and no husband to shoulder the day in/day out activities of motherhood. I believe that guilt for feeling this way could be fueling her addiction issues. I don’t know the girl and have no real answers, these are just my observations based on my own life experiences.
And Thomas is horrible to be tweeting pictures of his daughter with another woman, especially when it seems she (Kathryn) isn’t part of their lives right now. That has got to hurt like hell and I know it would probably cause me to lose my damn mind. Whether he likes it or not, he chose to impregnate her twice. He should have more respect for her regardless of her behavior as well as respect for his children. She is their mother and he should protect her and try not to hurt her for that reason alone.
This is very interesting and definitely an interesting perspective. I think we all assume that mothers would do anything to have their children back, but it might not be the case for Kathryn, either because of mental illness or drug addiction, or whatever. Really interesting perspective, something to think about for sure.
I think your theory is very possible, but she may not even realize it. I’ve seen plenty of women torpedo their custody cases. They can’t admit that they don’t want primary custody of their children because of social pressure and the shame that would get heaped on them if they did.
Yes!!! Tremendous social pressure. It’s so sad.
I totally agree. I do not believe she bargained on ever being a single parent. And instead of handling it as best as she could, she has went the other way. I truly do not believe she will ever have them, it’s just a gut feeling I get, drugs or not. I just don’t think it’s the life she thought it would turn out to be. Sad for the kids.
That’s what I’m thinking too, Amy. I hate it for her and for the kids. I don’t know her at all and actually think she’s a real bitch but I don’t want her to feel bad or feel guilty if this is truly the case. Her life would have been quite different if she and Thomas were together. I don’t know…I guess if there was one thing I could tell her it would be to not carry the guilt but be there in every other way that she can.
I tend to believe the court documents. Why would the court not have them if she was fighting so hard, as she claims, to regain visitation. The judge wouldn’t need to threaten her if she had been complying.
This is all very sad. I have a brother who has overcome alcohol and drug issues and its been a long uphill battle. For his kids I pray he overcomes these demons. I do the same for Kathryn, the kids are the ones that suffer 🙁
So another thought… this test said they took a hair sample from the head. At the reunion she claimed thomas shaved all his body hair yet clearly he had a full head of hair. Any explanation why she said that?
When did she and Thad Viers break up anyway?