'Home Improvement' star living 'double life' claims his strangulation arrest was 'blown out of proportion'
wonderwall.comarrested in 2020 for felony strangulation after a fight with his girlfriend, Johnnie Faye Cartwright. Now the "Home Improvement" actor claims the whole thing was "blown out of proportion.""We didn't even really get that physical.
We got really loud. We were screaming and because we were in a townhome that had [thin walls], everybody could hear," he told The Hollywood Reporter in a wide-ranging story. "Johnnie was, at the time, just really upset about my situation.
At the end of the day, [the police] throw a bunch of counts at you because they ultimately want you to plead to something."Ultimately, the child star pleaded plead guilty to menacing and fourth-degree assault. "I could've fought it … but that's more stress and drama.
I got two misdemeanors and called it a day," he said, even calling it a "learning experience.""I thank God for that. I went through a situation that I'm sure plenty of people across the globe experience with their partners," he continued.
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