Teen Mom OG star Amber Portwood and her fiancé, Matt, are responding to claims her ex, Gary Shirley, made on Monday’s new episode that Matt has fathered seven children with five different women.
Portwood first responded to Shirley’s claims in December when a Teen Mom OG promo showed him bombarding Portwood with paperwork about her fiancé. She denied that Matt has seven children at the time, now revealing that he has five kids.
In an interview with MTV, Portwood and her fiancé said they did hit a "rough patch" after Shirley brought this to her attention, but they’re in a good place now. They also said their issue is mainly with Shirley, who decided to wait to bring this information out until the cameras were up.
Portwood explained her fiancé has a dark past, having been an “addict” and a “womanizer,” but he’s not that person anymore.
“Gary had told me a couple weeks after that he actually had known for a while, which just tells me that he just literally waited for the cameras to be there,” she also said. “I think what his main goal was, was to humiliate us and to try to make our family look like it’s not stable because this was when we were in the big custody battle.”