1000-lb Sisters star Amy Slaton attends court to face drugs and child endangerment charges after zoo camel incident

1000-lb Sisters star Amy Slaton appeared in court Thursday to answer drug and child abuse charges, days after she was arrested at a Tennessee zoo.

Slaton, 36, was reportedly bitten by a camel at the Tennessee Safari Park in Alamo on Labor Day. However, when police were called to the park about the bite, they noticed “suspicious odors” coming from their vehicle, officers said.

Responding officers discovered “what they thought were mushrooms” and “what they thought was marijuana” in Slaton’s car. They smelled marijuana in the car and saw the drugs “in plain view.”

Slaton and friend Brian Scott Lovvorn were arrested and charged with illegal possession of Schedule I items, illegal possession of Schedule VI items, and two counts of child abuse.

Two children under the age of eight were in the car when they were arrested — Slaton’s children Gage Deon, four, and Glenn Allen, two. Tammy Slaton reportedly picked up the children after the arrest.

Slaton, who was seen frowning in a photo, was arrested after officers treated her camel bite and found “magic mushrooms and marijuana” in her car

Slaton looked deadpan as she arrived for her arraignment, as her attorney continued to reinforce her claim that she had been bitten by a camel.

She received medical treatment at the zoo and was pictured being wheeled out of a safari park in Tennessee on a stretcher, with a bandage on her forearm.

Co-owner of Tennessee Safari Park Claude Conley, 44, denied that Slaton was bitten and said The American Sun “There is no bruise. She cut her arm on something, it is not consistent with an animal bite.”

‘Her boyfriend or the man she was with was acting crazy, screaming and shouting all sorts of things.

‘He got angry that the police came because all he wanted was for the ambulance to come.’

Attorney Taylor Hughes said TMZ She was certainly attacked by the animal and said Slaton thanked her fans for their love and support during her legal troubles.

Slaton and Lovvorn were booked into the Crockett County Jail on $10,000 bail. A representative confirmed the pair were released Tuesday.

The spokesperson told the publication, “Amy’s brother Chris Combs and Hughes’ bail bonds company released them from the Crockett County Jail together and they left with Chris.”

Slaton and his friend Brian Scott Lovvorn (pictured together in court) were arrested and are facing charges of illegal possession of Schedule I cigarettes, illegal possession of Schedule VI cigarettes, and two counts of child abuse.

Slaton looked deadpan as she arrived for her arraignment, as her attorney continued to repeat her claim that she had been bitten by a camel

Police were called to the park in Alamo on Labor Day and said they immediately noticed strange odors coming from Slaton’s vehicle

DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Slaton for comment.

Slaton finalized her divorce from ex-husband Michael Halterman last year.

The couple have two children and are said to have had a falling out over their appearance on the TLC reality show.

The couple welcomed their first child, Gage Deon, in November 2020 and their second son, Glenn Allen, in July 2022.

“There was no support. There was no love. There was no kindness. There was just mental abuse,” she said. People of their marriage. ‘I was just tired of hiding it from other people.’

In the fifth season of the series, a confrontation between her, her sisters and Michael was shown.

Lovvorn is in his arrest photo

“That was the day I left,” she said. “But I wasn’t in love with him before that.”

After a lengthy custody battle, the former couple decided to share parenting duties.

Amy rose to fame when she starred opposite her sister Tammy Slaton on the series 1000-Lb. Sisters. The show’s fifth season premiered late last year.

The star has lost a whopping 176 pounds since undergoing gastric bypass surgery five years ago.

Slaton introduced fans to a new man before her divorce was final and she dated a Michigan man named Tony, the US Sun defeated.

By the time the divorce was final, the couple had been together for about three months.