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‘Teen Mom’ star Amber Portwood says fiancé Gary Wayt is missing

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June 16, 2024

“Teen Mother” alum Amber Portwood is pleading for details about fiancé Gary Wayt, who went lacking earlier this week shortly after the 2 reportedly obtained engaged.

“My fiancé is lacking proper now, and we do not know the place he’s,” the 34-year-old stated tearfully Tuesday throughout a livestream on the Elle Bee YouTube channel. “He’s lacking. It is a enormous deal. His mother and father, everyone may be very frightened. I am frightened. … We’re very scared proper now.”

She described their final dialog earlier than Wayt disappeared as “emotional.”

The Bryson Metropolis Police Division in North Carolina posted a lacking particular person alert for Wayt on Tuesday, describing him as a 39-year-old, 6-foot-1 man with brown eyes who was final seen Sunday within the Arlington Avenue space of Bryson Metropolis, situated greater than 60 miles west of Asheville.

In accordance with Us Weekly and E! Information, police situated Wayt in Oklahoma by way of video footage.

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Bryson Metropolis Police Chief Charlie Robinson informed native ABC affiliate WLOS Information 13 that Wayt and Portwood have been visiting from Indiana for Portwood’s brother’s wedding ceremony on June 8 and had additionally just lately gotten engaged.

USA TODAY has reached out to Portwood and Bryson Police for remark.

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Portwood made her actuality TV debut on MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” and went on to star on six seasons of the spinoff present “Teen Mother” – which was later renamed “Teen Mother OG” – from 2009 to 2017. For greater than a decade, she has confronted authorized points as a consequence of home violence and drug possession.

The previous MTV star claimed folks have been speculating on-line that the couple had an explosive argument earlier than Wayt went lacking. “There was not a giant blowout combat or something like that, OK?” she stated. “I’m not what folks have been saying about me all of those years. I modified a very long time in the past.”

She added, “We have now not had explosive fights; we’re very in love. This man requested me to be with him. This man then requested me to marry him. I’ve not touched this man in any horrible approach. He doesn’t contact me in any horrible approach. We don’t yell at one another. We have now an exquisite relationship.”

Portwood, who referred to as Wayt “the love of my life,” pleaded, “Please do not simply make up tales and assume that one thing occurred relating to me and him. We have now a phenomenal relationship. … That is the primary time in my life that I’ve had man.”

Amber Portwood’s troubles with home violence, drug possession

In 2011, Portwood pleaded responsible to home battery following an incident involving her associate on the time, Gary Shirley. Shirley is her 15-year-old daughter Leah’s father.

She finally served time in jail for violating her probation phrases and graduated from the Clear Way of life Is Freedom program throughout her sentence, she informed Indiana’s The Herald Bulletin in 2015.

“In any 12-step program, you be taught that you need to change your folks, locations and issues. After I obtained out of jail I stayed with my grandmother for a short time. I wanted to alter every little thing. I didn’t hang around with my outdated mates. I didn’t go to the identical locations,” she stated on the time.