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Amber Portwood’s Daughter Told That Jailed Mom Is Making A Movie In California!

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Oct. 9 2012, Published 7:30 a.m. ET

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By Jon Boon - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

Amber Portwood’s daughter has been told that her mom is “making a movie in California,” Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

The Teen Mom star and her baby daddy Gary Shirley, 25, are still refusing to tell three-year-old Leah that Amber is serving a 5-year jail sentence at an Indiana prison.

But, despite the elaborate lie, parents and child-minders at Leah’s daycare all know that Amber’s in prison, and the pair fear that Leah will find out the truth!

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“Amber and Gary are going with the idea that she is away shooting a film in California,” a source revealed. “This is their cover; they don’t want to tell Leah that she’s actually in prison - because they’re not sure she would understand and don’t want her thinking worse of her mom.

“But the problem is, everyone at Leah’s daycare knows that Amber is her mom and that she’s in prison, there’s no hiding that fact.

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“So, it’s only a matter a time before Leah overhears it, and that has got Amber and Gary in a panic that she will find out what’s going on before they tell her,” the source revealed.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Amber, 22, is desperately trying to turn her life around in an attempt to show her daughter she can be a model parent.

She is said to be adapting to life at her current digs, Indiana’s Rockville Correctional Fac