FORMER Teen Mom 2 star Nathan Griffith was a familiar face on the reality TV show from 2013 to 2015.
On July 13, 2023, it was revealed that the 35-year-old personal trainer had been arrested and jailed for allegedly strangling a family member in Las Vegas.
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Who is Teen Mom Jenelle Evans’ ex, Nathan Griffith?
Nathan Joseph Griffith was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 19, 1987.
Griffith has over 40k followers on his social media account, where according to his Instagram bio, he is a personal trainer, diet expert, pro football player, Marine, and owner of Alpha Ego.
From 2013 to 2015, he appeared on the MTV show Teen Mom 2 and is best known for his tumultuous relationship with ex Jenelle Evans.
Does Nathan Griffith have children?
Griffith shares one child with his former fiancee, Evans. Their son, Kaiser Orion Griffith, was born on June 30, 2014, and is Evans’ second son.
Griffith, however, also has a daughter, Emery, whom he welcomed from a previous relationship.
He has visitation with both children and in May 2022, Griffith told The Sun: “I would love to have another kid, one that I would be around 24/7.
“That was supposed to be the plan with my first child and that was supposed to be the plan with my second child.
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“I will be with them day and night, all year round until he is 18, if not longer.”
Is Nathan Griffith married?
Griffith married Mayra Oyola on April 30, 2022, in a private ceremony in Miami Beach, Florida.
He told The Sun at the time: “A priority right now is having an equally mutual understandable relationship. For us to get to the point where we are now married, we’ve had a lot of rough stuff in our lives and a lot of that rough stuff had to do with me,” he confessed.
“Things were getting serious and I wanted to run away. Most of the trust issues have been my fault, and we’ve had a rough time because of me making mistakes, but we finally got to the point where realized we are secure enough in our relationship to get married.
“That’s commitment, we can’t just break up and get back together. We’ve broken up and gotten back together several times and we’ve finally reached an understanding where we’re secure with our relationship and we trust each other where we decided let’s just go ahead and tie the knot because then both of us can’t back out of it,” he added.
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Why was Nathan Griffith arrested?
On July 12, 2023, Griffith was arrested and jailed for allegedly strangling a family member in Las Vegas. He was booked into the Clark County Jail on a $5,000 bail, The U.S. Sun can confirm.
As per TMZ, Las Vegas police received a call around 9.15pm on Wednesday and responded to a home where the Teen Mom star was staying.
Griffith is expected to meet with the judge at 1.30pm on July 13.
This is not the first time he has had a run-in with the law.
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