Teen Mom Confidential: Secrets & Scandals From MTV's Most Controversial Shows (22 page)

He gave Kail a son and - according to her - an STD!

Jo's baby mama shocked even the most in-the-know
Teen Mom 2
fans when she accused the aspiring rapper of infecting her with chlamydia during the season two reunion special in 2011. “I had no idea they were going to bring that up,” Jo revealed during a radio interview a year later. “I didn't have any [STDs] so I don't know….”

Kail and Jo have had a contentious relationship at best since they first appeared together on season two of
16 and Pregnant
. Though his parents, Janet and Eddie, opened up their four bedroom, 3,761-square-foot Easton, Pennsylvania home to Kail when she became pregnant in 2009, Jo was not always thrilled to have his new roommate around. Shortly before the birth of their son, Isaac, the Puerto Rican bad boy cheated on Kail, perhaps squashing any chance of them succeeding as a family.

By 2011, Jo had found a new woman and a new career. He met 21 year-old aspiring model Vee Torres when she co-starred in a sexy music video for his first rap single, “Unthinkable.” (Jo followed up with another tune, fittingly called “Life As A Teen Father.”) By early 2012, he struggled to even remember what attracted him to Kail. “It's hard to say,” he told the hosts of North Carolina's “Murphy In The Morning” radio show. “We were young and were attracted to each other. She's not a bad person. We all have our moments.”

Jo's Legal Woes

March 27, 2011:
Jo gets a face full of law enforcement when he is popped in Warren County, Pennsylvania for being stoned! Jo was riding shotgun in his brother Edward's car when cops spotted sparks shooting out from the undercarriage. They pulled the vehicle over and discovered both siblings were under the influence of marijuana. Edward (a/k/a “Junior”) was charged with D.U.I., being under the influence of marijuana, driving with a suspended license, and driving an unsafe vehicle, according to the official police report.

Nikkole Paulun describes Josh - the often belligerent and disrespectful father of her young son, Lyle - as “a drug addict,” who once lived in a “crack house” and broke up with her for refusing to have an abortion. The pair, featured on season two of
16 and Pregnant
, has one of the show's most unhealthy relationships. He stood her up at the homecoming dance, started a fight with her mother, Rikki, moments before Lyle's birth, and admitted to cheating on the former cheerleader multiple times.

Josh - who was expelled from high school (but later earned his G.E.D.) - also has a laundry list of legal problems. In May 2011, he racked up three felonies after helping himself to his own mother's checkbook. Over the course of several months, Josh wrote himself five checks ranging from $30-100, for a grand total of $270. When his mom got wind of the diminishing balance, she promptly had him arrested. He later pled guilty to two counts of forgery and one count of larceny, and was sentenced to a year in jail. Josh was released in March 2012 and transferred to a rehab center - which he promptly fled. He was caught using drugs a week later and was sent back to jail until mid-April 2012. Josh quickly became a regular at the Monroe County Jail, having served time in there in 2009 for failing drug tests while in court-mandated rehab, and again in 2010 after Nikkole called the cops on him, knowing that he had outstanding warrants.

The couple first got together when Nikkole was just 15. Despite numerous breakups, they became engaged in late September 2012 - only to end things for good two months later when Nikkole confessed she had been unfaithful. "I've OFFICIALLY moved back to my moms after a NASTY break up with Josh," she posted on Sulia.
"He caught me cheating & we … fought and fought and fought. I know he posted a bunch of stuff about us getting back together possibly but I told him my heart was just not in it. I will always care about Josh considering he's been such a big part of my life but as for now I am not capable of loving him and being in a relationship with him. I think we're best off as just friends and co-parenting."

Nikkole, who enrolled at a Toledo, Ohio college after her son's birth, shared several intimate - and disturbing - details about her relationship with Josh in a 2011 posting on Tumblr. They include:

“Josh was in juvy right after I first met him. Why? He had marijuana on him at school & also got in trouble for being on private property. When we started “talking” he had just got out. We started dating a few months later. When we were first dating, he was a homebody. He always sat at home and read or played Wii or whatever. He also loved to cook.”

“When I wouldn't abort the baby, Josh changed dramatically. He broke up with me, stopped going to school, and got kicked out of his house. I was dumbfounded by it all. He was literally living in a crack house. I went there once and it was absolutely disgusting. No electricity, holes in the wall, and drugs everywhere. I couldn't believe the person I loved was like this. I tried so hard to save him but I didn't know what to do. I was only 15.”

“One night he came in real late and didn't know I was still up. I heard him fiddle with the heat vent for a few minutes. Then he went to bed. When he was taking a shower the next morning I looked in the vent and found two needles. I was beyond shocked. I immediately disposed of them so he couldn't find them. I didn't say a word. I was sitting on the couch later in the day and I heard him go into the room. He came out looking pretty upset and asked me if Lyle had been near the vent. I went into his room with him and confronted him about it. He told me and said he was sorry but nothing could stop him now. He said he wanted help but not to say anything to anyone. So I didn't.”

“Finally, on New Year's Eve, he called me and asked me to steal his dad's gun or else he'd shoot up bleach. I decided it was time to tell his mom. She started crying, and me and his sister hurriedly drove to where he was. We found him safe and sound and he ended up coming home with us. About 30 mins after coming home he began to have crazy withdrawals. I didn't know what to do. He was puking and shaking and freaking out. We called an ambulance and the police ended up showing up too since he had warrants we didn't know about.

“He served his time in jail, and when he got out, he went right back at it. I was done. I wasn't letting myself live this life anymore. I decided to call my mom and come home, and of course she said yes. I had all my stuff packed and Lyle in the car, and Josh told me he was going to kill himself. I laughed and said shut up. He held his hand out and in it was a fist full of sleeping pills. He threw them all in his mouth and swallowed. I screamed for his mom to take him to the hospital. I went home after that. I guess he had his stomach pumped and had to stay for 3 days because he was on suicide watch. I never wanted to be with him again.”

On January 23, 2013, Josh was sent back to prison, beginning what will be at least a two-year sentence for crimes that include assaulting a police officer (in November 2012), as well as two counts of Uttering and Publishing and one count of Larceny in a Building, stemming from the felonies he acquired in 2011. His earliest release date is listed as March 8, 2015.

He's been punched by Amber, photographed with strippers and blasted online by Farrah. Gary, a former lineman for the Anderson High School football team, had no idea his life would become an out-of-control circus of arrests, drugs and custody dramas when he began dating his high school buddy's 15 year-old sister in late 2005. Amber - who was immediately smitten with 19 year-old Gary's teddy bear-like persona - would often sneak into his house for late night romps and a serenade by guitar. But the relationship was tumultuous from the start.

Though Gary - a Certified Nursing Assistant who worked with developmentally disabled patients - declared his love by having Amber's name tattooed on his shoulder in 2011, he often had trouble remaining faithful. Amber, too, enjoyed the company of other men, as the relationship turned more violent and toxic. After Amber suffered a series of legal setbacks, Gary was awarded full custody of their daughter Leah and moved to nearby Noblesville, Indiana in search of a fresh start.

As of March 2013, Gary has not brought Leah to visit her mother in prison, where she is serving up to five years for failing to comply with the terms of a court-ordered drug rehab program, but he says he plans to soon. "It's hard having a kid, especially with an a-hole," Amber revealed in the August 2012
Teen Mom
series finale. The episode, taped nearly a year earlier, featured an explosive dispute between the exes, during which Gary called Amber a “slut.”

After the scene aired, Farrah declared a Twitter war on the portly star, publically questioning his ability to parent the three year-old. The exchange went like this:

@FarrahAbraham1:
"To be honest Gary is so negative and I don't see how he is better to raise Leah than Amber, get the point Gary! Learn to focus on Leah."

@ItsGaryTime:
"Seriously Farrah I don't care for you one bit. Your cry face sucks and so do your cookies. Unless you change you are gonna die lonely."

@FarrahAbraham1:
"What a pig! You're horrible! Go get mental help for Amber's sake P.O.S."

@ItsGaryTime:
"Go make another hit single or treat your parents like shit. Always stuck up for you but not anymore."

@ItsGaryTime:
"Sorry Farrah but you need to be nice to people. Sorry for my tweets, not who I am"

Gary's “Big” Legal Problem

Gary was picked up on May 24, 2011 at 1:34 AM in Alexandria, Indiana for driving on a suspended license - a Class A misdemeanor - and (shocker!) Amber was in the car with him. The official police report states that Gary had pulled over to the side of the road and the pair was overheard arguing.

“I observed a silver Dodge stopped on the south side of Berry Street. I could hear a female arguing with a male inside the vehicle,” arresting officer
Kyle Williams
wrote. “I asked the male sitting in the driver seat if everything was ok and he advised yes. The female advised that everything was fine. I advised them that I had heard them arguing and wanted to make sure. I asked them both for identification.... The male introduced himself and the female as Gary Shirley and Amber Portwood from
Teen Mom
.'”