Max Ehrich is facing some legal trouble.
The Young and Restless alum, who was engaged to Demi Lovato in 2020, was arrested in St. Lucie County, Florida, in the early hours of Oct. 8 for a domestic violence charge, according to online booking records.
Ehrich was booked at the St. Lucie County jail just after 12 a.m. on Oct. 8 and was charged with battery of a person of 65 years or older. He was released at 2:30 p.m. that afternoon on a $1000 bond. The 34-year-old was also booked on the Leo Baker Act, a Florida mental health service law that allows for a person to be placed under a temporary involuntary hold for psychiatric evaluation, per the St. Lucie County online booking records.
E! News has attempted to reach an attorney for Ehrich but has not yet heard back.
The day leading up to his arrest, Ehrich had posted eight times to his Instagram grid, including several cryptic notes app posts declaring he was single, as well as a post that read alongside a frowning emoticon, “My heart is broken.”
Alongside the last Oct. 7 post, Ehrich had added a request for his followers to send Zelle payments to his mother, Rhonda Ehrich.
In addition to his role as Fenmore Baldwin on Young and Restless, Ehrich also had a minor role as a background dancer in High School Musical 3: Senior Year. However, he and Lovato shocked fans when they began to exchange flirtatious messages back and forth on social media in the spring of 2020.
Months later, the pair confirmed they were dating and quarantining during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. By July 2020, they were engaged.
“@maxehrich—I knew I loved you the moment I met you,” Lovato wrote in their engagement announcement at the time. “It was something I can’t describe to anyone who hasn’t experienced it firsthand but luckily you did too.”
However, the relationship ultimately ended in September, with Lovato—who went on to marry Jordan “Jutes” Lutes in May—admitting nine months later at The 19th Represents virtual summit, “The dissolvement of that relationship was actually probably the best thing that's happened to me, because of what that led [to] inside of myself.”