‘Teen Mom’ star Amber Portwood makes plea for missing fiancé: ‘Very scared right now’

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

“My fiancé is lacking proper now, and we don’t know the place he’s,” the 34-year-old stated tearfully Tuesday throughout on the Elle Bee YouTube channel. “He’s lacking. It is a enormous deal. His mother and father, everyone could be very frightened. I’m 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 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, positioned greater than 60 miles west of Asheville.

In accordance with and , police positioned Wayt in Oklahoma by way of video footage.

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

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

Amber Portwood hits again at claims she and her fiancé had a ‘blowout struggle’

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 result of home violence and drug possession.

The previous MTV star claimed folks had been speculating on-line that the couple had an explosive argument earlier than Wayt went lacking. “There was not a giant blowout struggle 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, “Now we have 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 means. He doesn’t contact me in any horrible means. We don’t yell at one another. Now we have an exquisite relationship.”

Portwood, who known as Wayt “the love of my life,” pleaded, “Please don’t simply make up tales and suppose that one thing occurred in terms of me and him. Now we have a ravishing relationship. … That is the primary time in my life that I’ve had an excellent 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 in the end served time in jail for violating her probation phrases and graduated from the Clear Way of life Is Freedom program throughout her sentence, she instructed Indiana’s in 2015.

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 I didn’t hang around with my outdated buddies.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

Then in October 2019, Portwood to 2 felony costs of home battery and intimidation and was sentenced to probation. Police a number of months earlier that she’d swung a machete at boyfriend Andrew Glennon whereas he was holding their son, James, who was 1 yr outdated on the time.

“This isn’t about my previous. It’s not in regards to the present. It’s about this particular person is lacking. His household is hurting; I’m hurting so dangerous. That is my love,” she stated within the Elle Bee livestream on Tuesday. “Don’t fear about me; I’m steady. I’ve been steady for years now, OK? I’ve been steady. Don’t suppose the worst.”

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