Season 14, Episode 3
Samantha C.
Age: 24
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
Addiction: Heroin
What’s memorable: The horrifying things she went through as a girl, her not knowing that Hep C is sexually transmitted, and that long and brutal intervention. The fact that Ken actually let her shoot up just so she could sit through the intervention, and then when he got real pissy at her for making them miss 2 flights because of her disruptive behavior. The follow up was a relief, and very unexpected.
Official Synopsis: The anguished family of a former soccer prodigy hope an intervention is the push this 24-year-old needs to stop using drugs and giving up a dangerous lifestyle that includes prostitution.
Original Air Date: April 2015
Interventionist: Ken
I’m glad that the comments addressed so many of the things I found bizarre about this episode. I’ve been on an Intervention kick and usually watch 1-2 episodes a week and I’m all the way up to season 14, so I “get” the show by now. However this is definitely one of the most memorable episodes for me. First, the strange way in which her dad worded his apology about grooming underage girls so as to sound like he was taking accountability but actually took no accountability at all. The way her mom sounded so blase about her daughter being raped. The fact that she was only 24 — I honestly would’ve guessed mid 30s. The insane intervention! The producers putting in not one but two audio clips of her having sex (so uncalled for). Her absolute callousness towards her child sister. Her doing drugs out in the open at the airport?? Getting kicked off the plane, then using toilet water to do more drugs. Ken flipping out on her at the airport. The weird way she was digging in her backside at the day two of the treatment facility. It was overall just a bizarre and memorable episode, and I honestly just felt really bad for her. She was very REAL. Didn’t sugarcoat anything. I was rooting for her to succeed and seeing her follow up was great to see. Sadly it looks like via her 20+ Facebook pages that she is not doing so hot.
I saw this episode years ago. But am now rewatching because I saw Samantha labeled as one of the most unlikabke addicts. I don’t find her unlikabke at all! The devastating trauma she’s experienced breaks my heart. Between a young divorce of her parents, her father being a creep, and then being raped at 12?!!! My heart is shattered for her. She deserved so much better. Then when they show her little sister? Ugh, I hope the sister can turn out okay. But the odds are stacked against her. I really hope Samantha is doing well today. She deserves happiness.
Episodes like this are the reason I refuse to watch anything past season 13. The audio of her having sex, the graphic descriptions that producers chose to include of her account of what happened to her, the whole intervention and how it went down, the fact the dad was even INVITED AT ALL? Nope, not having any of it at ALL.
That audio was beyond triggering. It was so upsetting. They should have known better.
Where can I watch this episode?
On A& E website it is for free. Just watched it. So sad she isn’t better.
So sad. She looks worse now than she did on the show. She didn’t seem to want to get clean at all though. She was perfectly content with her life as it was.
I’m so sad for her. She looked so good and sounded so positive when she talked to Ken post-Intervention. Now she looks 50 and just done. I hate the comments from guys on her FB telling her she’s be “tasty” and she’s “so beautiful”. What a bunch of scum bags. I wish she’d been able to stay clean.
she is/was on probation in Arkansas. Name changed to Samantha Wiginton. https://www.ark.org/dcc/absconder/index.php/search/detail/0327644
https://law.justia.com/cases/michigan/court-of-appeals-unpublished/2004/20040615-c247514-33-247514-opn.html
Found the case involving her dad. Sickening.
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100065289110830&pn_ref=friends_search
Her new Facebook
This was the most disgusting episode I’ve ever watched. I’m not surprised in the least that she’s relapsed. Very sad.
Comments like that is why addicts lose hope, don’t be so fucking rude and judgmental. You can obviously tell you have no experience with these issues first hand!
Amen! Everyone deserves a second chance, sometimes a third and fourth. If an addict is alive, theres hope!
Wow your really negative. If you have nothing but negative things to say then maybe you shouldn’t comment cause if you were her and read your comment I’m sure you wouldn’t feel too good.
I would’ve liked to seen Seth handle this one and call out Samantha’s disgusting father. That being said, Ken is amazing and handles these explosive interventions very well.
She looks super rough. It’s sad seeing someone who is about my age look so old and worn out.
Most recent Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/sammyc1720
She is not doing so hot. So sad to see, wish I hadn’t even looked her up after watching her episode. Looked inter her younger sister too, not sure how old she is, maybe 15? Looks like she smokes a lot of weed but is doing alright otherwise. Saw a weird update about her dad going to jail last year and want to look into that more!!! Seems like this girl relapsed really hard, which sucks, but also seems like she wants to get better now. I hope she gets help, I really do.
Omg I feel so bad for her sister and yet, I just checked out her Facebook and you can already tell she is super wild for her age. So sad.
https://m.facebook.com/kennedy.rupert.98?pn_ref=ec_friends_card
Oh man that’s super sad, looks like she is taking right after her big sister. I mean, I would say barely open eyes would probably be a good sign she’s using some sort of dope. And, just based on looks alone, are we at all certain the mom wasn’t using?
My thoughts exactly!
Honestly her profile picture looks like a lot of teenagers. Eyes closed/half open is a trend