{"id":279143,"date":"2019-09-03T19:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T01:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1070143"},"modified":"2019-09-03T19:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T01:18:47","slug":"amber-portwood-slams-insane-machete-attack-claims-on-teen-mom-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/amber-portwood-slams-insane-machete-attack-claims-on-teen-mom-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Portwood Slams &#8221;Insane&#8221; Machete Attack Claims on Teen Mom Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201983\/rs_600x600-190903180116-600-amber-portwood-teen-mom-me-9319.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.203632887189\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.495219885277\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/amber_portwood\">Amber Portwood<\/a><\/strong> is still reeling from the violent allegations&nbsp;leveled against her by boyfriend&nbsp;<strong>Andrew Glennon<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two months after the&nbsp;<em>Teen Mom<\/em> star was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1054542\/teen-mom-s-amber-portwood-arrested-for-domestic-battery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested and charged with domestic battery<\/a>, Dr.&nbsp;<strong>Drew Pinsky<\/strong> traveled to Portwood&#8217;s native Indiana to get her side of the never-before-heard story. Aired on tonight&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Teen Mom OG&nbsp;<\/em>reunion special, Amber vehemently denied wielding what Glennon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1055675\/amber-portwood-allegedly-used-machete-in-reported-attack-on-boyfriend-andrew-glennon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously described as a machete<\/a> toward him and their 1-year-old son,&nbsp;<strong>James<\/strong>, during an alleged incident in early July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I opted out of drug court a long time ago to put myself in prison to help myself,&#8221; she said during the sit-down interview, referencing her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1054747\/amber-portwood-arrested-for-domestic-battery-see-her-many-legal-scandals-through-the-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long history of legal drama<\/a>. &#8220;You haven&#8217;t heard s&#8211;t from me since then. I haven&#8217;t got in trouble one time. But all of a sudden, I&#8217;m running after my kid and [Andrew] with a machete? You&#8217;re insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since the case is still active,&nbsp;Portwood was reluctant to share any more information beyond that. She did, however, claim that Glennon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1065982\/amber-portwood-and-andrew-glennon-hope-to-reconcile-romance-after-domestic-battery-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may have already moved on<\/a> from their relationship.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s some narcissism here that I can&#8217;t comprehend at the moment,&#8221; Portwood added. &#8220;If it takes you less than two weeks to ask a woman to come to Indiana&#8230; Well, I&#8217;ve already talked to her. She&#8217;s a good person. She&#8217;s very nice, a very sweet person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of Glennon&#8217;s actions, Portwood told Dr. Drew, &#8220;It completely ripped my heart out.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>So while Portwood and Glennon&#8217;s future together remains to be seen, her ex,&nbsp;<em>Teen Mom<\/em> castmate&nbsp;<strong>Gary Shirley<\/strong>, said he&#8217;ll always have her back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>Appearing alongside wife&nbsp;<strong>Kristina Anderson<\/strong> and stepmom to the former couple&#8217;s daughter, 10-year-old&nbsp;<strong>Leah<\/strong>, Gary shared during the reunion, &#8220;I care about Amber. I have love for her as a person and as the mother of my kid I don&#8217;t want anything to happen to her.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have done a very good job the last couple of years of coming together and being one unit for Leah&#8217;s sake, for our sake,&#8221;&nbsp;he explained. &#8220;I wan&#8217;t to make sure that you&#8217;re not going to harm yourself because we&#8217;re here for you.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"52.931506849315\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"1.8904109589041\">\n<p>Check out our recap of part-one of&nbsp;<em>Teen Mom OG<\/em>&#8216;s reunion special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1069789\/tyler-baltierra-and-catelynn-lowell-reunite-with-carly-s-adoptive-parents-for-rare-teen-mom-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1070143\/amber-portwood-slams-insane-machete-attack-claims-on-teen-mom-reunion?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Portwood is still reeling from the violent allegations&nbsp;leveled against her by boyfriend&nbsp;Andrew Glennon.&nbsp; Two months after the&nbsp;Teen Mom star was arrested and charged with domestic battery, Dr.&nbsp;Drew Pinsky traveled to Portwood&#8217;s native Indiana to get her side of the never-before-heard story. Aired on tonight&#8217;s&nbsp;Teen Mom OG&nbsp;reunion special, Amber vehemently denied wielding what Glennon previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-24 16:17:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}