NEW BALTIMORE, Mich. — A New Baltimore district court judge has ordered Kim Mathers to remain in jail until she is accepted into another inpatient treatment facility, despite her attorney's request that she be able to continue previous outpatient treatment.

Mathers, the ex-wife of rapper Eminem, appeared in New Baltimore's 42-2 District Court on Wednesday via Zoom from the Macomb County Jail for a probable cause conference for two felony cases — third-offense drunk driving and assaulting, obstructing or resisting arrest.

Mathers, 51, of Chesterfield Township was sent to jail last week after she turned herself in on a bench warrant and District Judge William Hackel III ordered her bond be revoked. Mathers was released from jail in August into a treatment center, but left a few days later, violating Hackel's order.

Hackel said Wednesday that Mathers will only be released from jail if she is accepted into another inpatient substance abuse treatment program.

"If she gets into another inpatient, out she goes," Hackel said.

Mathers' attorney, Camilla Barkovic, requested that Hackel reinstate Mathers' previous bond, but he declined.

Barkovic said Mathers has done "significant and substantial rehabilitative efforts," including therapy, counseling and intensive outpatient treatment.

"She has maintained full and complete sobriety from when she left the treatment facility up until the time she turned herself in (last week)," Barkovic said. "She has made significant positive strides and positive progress."

Macomb County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Joseph McCarthy said Mathers absconded for 37 days and cannot be allowed to write her own bond conditions.

Warrants for Mathers' arrest were issued after she left Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center on Aug. 26, the prosecutor's office said last week.

Mathers pleaded no contest May 11 to operating while impaired and failure to stop after a collision, which are punishable by up to 93 days in jail.

She also faces a felony case involving an incident May 13 in which she allegedly crashed into a parked car in a Chesterfield Township neighborhood and registered a blood-alcohol content of more than twice Michigan's legal limit, according to police body cam footage from the incident. She is charged with third-offense operating while intoxicated, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

Another felony case resulted after police responded to Mathers’ home July 11 for help with a suicidal person, prosecutors said. Mathers allegedly injured an officer and resisted arrest. She faces up to four years in prison for resisting arrest resulting in an officer's injury and resisting or obstructing arrest.

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