'Home Improvement' star Zachery Ty Bryan downplays domestic violence allegations: 'Blown out of proportion'

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"Home Improvement" star Zachery Ty Bryan downplayed a 2020 altercation between him and Johnnie Faye Cartwright, who at the time was the actor's secret girlfriend.

Bryan, who had been seeing Cartwright for two years while married, was arrested in October 2020 and charged with felony strangulation, fourth-degree assault, coercion, menacing, harassment and interference with making a police report.

Police dropped the charges besides menacing and fourth-degree assault, and Bryan chose to plead guilty. He now says the arrest "got so blown out of proportion" and downplayed the events that occurred in a new interview. "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," Bryan told The Hollywood Reporter. "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.