How I Survived Being Locked Up In A Texas Jail | Amber Mettlen

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Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Amber Mettlen was born in Texas, lost her father young, and moved with her mom and five siblings to Ohio—a turning point that sent her into the wrong crowd, juvenile detention, and years of chaos. As an adult, a DUI led to jail time. After moving back to Texas, a second DUI and felony charges put her 30 days inside a Texas jail. Amber later went viral for her no-filter jail stories, and in this episode she opens up about juvenile detention vs. adult jail, what a Texas county jail is really like, the cost of DUIs, how fast a night out becomes a felony, and the hard lessons that helped her turn everything around. #TrueCrime #PrisonStories #DUI #AddictionRecovery #SecondChances #TexasJail #JuvenileDetention #redemptionstory Thank you to PRIZEPICKS for sponsoring this episode: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/IANBICK and use code IANBICK and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Connect with Amber Mettlen: https://www.instagram.com/amber.texas/?hl=en Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Use code LOCKEDIN for 20% OFF Wooooo Energy Buy Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop Timestamps: 00:00 Intro & Amber's Early Life 03:54 Losing Her Dad & Moving to Ohio 06:34 Struggles After the Move 10:02 Falling Into Trouble – Shoplifting & Juvie 13:50 Life Inside Juvenile Detention 18:13 Growing Up in Juvie & First Relationships 25:50 Lessons Learned & Transitioning Out 31:31 Motherhood, Gun Charge & Moving Back to Texas 36:33 Trying to Settle Down & DUI Trouble 44:54 Felony Case & 30-Day Sentence 52:52 Preparing for Jail & Going Viral on TikTok 01:01:35 Jail Intake, Suicide Watch & Life in the Dungeon 01:10:07 Life in the Turtle Pond – Fights, Sleep Deprivation, Drama 01:17:06 Commissary, Jail Items & Survival Culture 01:21:06 Release, Aftermath & Lessons Learned 01:26:00 Reflections, Parenting, and Looking Ahead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	The girls that came in there, I was just always fighting with them.
0:32.7	This sounds like a reality TV show. Oh, it definitely could have been.
0:35.3	What do you think was the craziest thing you witnessed in jail? I remember going in, as soon as they opened it and they were like, this is
0:40.8	where you're going to be at, my jaw dropped. I'm like, there's no way. Amber Metland was born in Texas
0:45.0	and everything changed when her dad died and her mom moved six kids to Ohio. As a teenager, Amber fell in
0:52.4	with the wrong crowd and spent years in juvie.
0:55.5	As an adult, a DUI put her in jail, and after moving back to Texas, a second DUI in felony charges landed her 30 days inside a Texas jail.
1:05.8	She later went viral for her raw jail stories.
1:08.9	Now she's here to share the lessons that saved her, how she's
1:12.0	turning her life around, and what she wants others to know before they make the same mistakes.
1:19.9	Amber, welcome to Lockton. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Thank you. I'm excited about being
1:24.7	here. I appreciate you having me. Of course. We saw you go viral on Instagram a few months ago, which we're going to talk about today, and we reached out. And you flew in from Texas?
1:34.7	Yes. I'm from East Texas. Small town. Yeah. Did you grow up there? I grew up there, moved to Northeast Ohio when I was 13. So I spent some time in Akron. That's actually where my
1:46.4	children were born and then came back home. Okay. Where in Texas? So I live in White House,
1:51.9	Texas. It's the biggest city is Tyler. But yeah, it's right in between Dallas and Louisiana.
1:59.6	We're like smack in the middle. And that's the place you grew up to?
2:02.3	Yeah.
2:02.7	Okay.
2:03.1	Who did you grow up with?
2:04.2	So I'm the oldest of six kids.
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