Max Ehrich, the former The Young and the Restless actor and Demi Lovato’s ex-fiancé, was placed on psychiatric hold after his fans grew alarmed by his online behavior and reported him to the police. He was taken in an ambulance to a facility in southern Florida for treatment.
This comes after he was arrested last month for domestic violence on one charge of battery of a person 65 years or older, who is his mother. Max was on a livestream, allegedly using nitrous oxide, before attacking his mother.
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Ehrich told the cops that her son “heavily abuses inhalants,” and “chased her outside into her neighbor’s backyard, pushed her to the ground and kicked her in the thigh.”
In the livestream, which one viewer recorded, Max demands his mother’s phone while his mother cries in the bathroom, leading to him shoving her. Max was held on a $1,000 cash bond and released.
Max’s mom, Rhonda Ehrich, took to Instagram to deliver a lengthy statement in her son’s defense.
Alongside a screenshot of an old post of Max’s that featured Rhonda and the caption “I LOVE MY ANGEL MOTHER SO MUCH I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR HER PURE HEART,” she told followers that the attack was “completely fabricated.”
She began, “A short video clip of an altercation that is being exaggerated for clickbait does not discern the truth of what did and didn’t happen.”
“The only villain in this is the fact that my son was kidnapped and forced to ingest a dangerous substance. My son is my best friend and one of the best people I know. My son lives a clean, healthy and sober lifestyle. All my son has ever wanted is a platform to share love and goodness with the world. These public exaggerations are harmful to my family. Falsely stating such is also defamation.”
“I am pursuing all legal avenues to clear my son’s name and to move beyond this instance where forced substance abuse created these conflicts. In a short amount of time, I watched substance abuse take over his entire daily life because he was kidnapped and forced to do drugs with a group of bad characters, and I struggled as any mother would with the demand to keep him safe as a grown man and protect him. He now is in rehab, and he is getting the treatment he needs.”
“Those who know the real Max Ehrich know him for the kind, respectful, loving and talented young man that I’m proud to say is my incredible, inspirational, brilliant, clean living, amazing son. Max is devastated and extremely apologetic that the world had to watch him fall from grace.”
After his release, Max reposted Rhonda’s statement, with the caption, “LOVE YOU MOM.” He also issued his own statement on Instagram: alongside a photo of himself in the car throwing the camera a peace sign, he wrote, “On my way to rehab…”
