It’s the news that absolutely everyone saw coming: Amber Portwood‘s engagement to Gary “Gary 2.0” Wyat has ended.
Us Weekly broke the news Tuesday night that the Teen Mom: The Next Chapter star officially “took of the ring” that Gary had given her when he proposed recently.
“They’ve decided that it’s over between them and their engagement is off,” the magazine’s source stated. “They have too much to overcome to move forward together.
“It’s the best thing,” the source added. “She is sad and she cares about him, but she is willing to see that he is not the right guy for her. She wants to be with someone who accepts her fully.”
Fans of the show had been following the ‘Teen Mom’-meets-true-crime saga earlier this month when Gary 2.0 went missing after attending the wedding of Amber’s brother Shawn Portwood in North Carolina. Days later, Amber tearfully begged fans for prayers for her fiancé, who stormed out of their vacation rental without his phone and took off without contacting her or his family. The search for Gary lasted several days– with Gary even being officially listed as a missing person in North Carolina— before Gary was spotted in Oklahoma and New Mexico. He later called police to let them know he was “missing” by choice and wasn’t in danger.
Last week, it was reported that Amber had not spoken to Gary since he ghosted her, so the engagement was still technically on. However, on Tuesday, Us Weekly reported that the pair has since communicated in some way and decided to break things off.
“[There has] been some closure,” the source said, insisting that Gary is “not ghosting” Amber.
As The Ashley previously reported, Amber went Live with YouTuber Elle Bee after Gary was reported missing and denied having anything to do with his disappearance, stating that they had a “wonderful relationship.” She did admit, however, to getting into an “emotional discussion” while in North Carolina after Shawn’s wedding. Amber claimed the discussion was mostly about Gary’s family being unhappy that he was engaged to “Amber from ‘Teen Mom.'”
“It was emotional, because it has something to do with the fact of his parents being Vietnamese, and me being who I am and stuff like that,” Amber said at the time. “It had nothing to do with us personally, OK? This is the only thing that happened. He was very upset about this, I was upset.”
Us Weekly reports that Gary’s family did, in fact, get upset about the engagement after they Googled Amber and read about her past antics (which, as ‘Teen Mom’ fans know, include prison time, several arrests for domestic battery, and multiple broken engagements, among other things.)
“[The engagement news] created some family tension,” the magazine source stated. “Gary’s family was looking her up online and looking at her past and not everything they saw online was true. And it was hard for Amber because she’s been trying so hard to move past it and move forward.”
Amber insisted that she is a changed woman during her interview with Elle Bee while Gary was missing.
“I am not what people have been saying about me all of these years. I changed a long time ago, OK?” she said. “You guys have to understand this. Please listen to what I’m saying. I’m an honest person to you guys.”
She also stressed that she and Gary were not violent with one another during their relationship.
“ … We have not had explosive fights,” she said. “We are very in love. This man asked me to be with him. This man asked me to marry him. I have not touched this man in any horrible way. He does not touch me in any horrible way. We do not yell at each other. We have a wonderful relationship, please understand this. People change.”
Amber has not yet spoken out publicly about her split from Gary 2.0; however, it’s almost certainly going to be a storyline for the next season of ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.’ Gary has also yet to speak out about what happened between him and Amber.
