Shanna Moakler Says It’s Been ‘Difficult’ Since Ex Matthew Rondeau’s Domestic Violence Arrest: ‘I’m Trying to Get the Help That I Need’

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Trying to heal. Shanna Moakler is understandably still dealing with the aftermath of the domestic violence arrest of her on-and-off boyfriend Matthew Rondeau.“It’s very difficult because it’s, like, I just lost the man that I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with and my best friend,” the former beauty queen, 46, exclusively tells Us Weekly, noting that they had been seriously talking about marriage. “I had a plan for my life. … Now I don’t know where I’m at in my world, so I’m trying to get the help that I need to get myself back on track and in a good headspace so I can move forward.”Rondeau, 29, whom the Rhode Island native had been dating on and off since 2020, was arrested on Thursday, February 24, for felony domestic violence after an altercation in which, according to the police report obtained by Us, he grabbed her by her hair, threw a chair at her and urinated on her, leaving visible injuries.

He spent six hours in jail.“Today was one of the most heartbreaking days of my life,” Rondeau wrote after his release. “To my family and friends, I just want you to know I love you so so much.

You know I’d never lay a hand on another woman. My mother is my angel and my best friend. She raised me right.”Moakler obtained an emergency protective order against her former partner, which she tells Us she plans on extending.

She also confirms that she has not spoken to Rondeau since the incident.The morning of his arrest, Rondeau had taken Moakler’s phone and streamed live from her Instagram account, yelling obscenities in an alarming rant about how she was allegedly unfaithful to him, among other things.“I definitely was not having an affair with my neighbor,” Moakler tells Us. “I think those were things that were