‘Return to Amish’ Star Jeremiah Raber and Wife Carmela Raber’s Relationship Timeline
15.03.2023 - 00:01
/ usmagazine.com
A complicated history. Jeremiah Raber and his wife, Carmela Raber (née Mendez), wed in 2016 after meeting via social media, but their relationship has been full of ups and downs.
Fans first met Jeremiah in 2012 when he appeared on season 1 of Breaking Amish, which followed him and four costars as they moved to New York City to decide whether they wanted to remain part of the Amish community or stay in the so-called English world.
Shortly before the reality show premiered on TLC, Jeremiah split from Naomi Stutzman, with whom he shares three children. The TLC personality and Stutzman were married from 2005 to 2011. Stutzman and the kids appeared on one episode of Breaking Amish, but they’ve since kept a low profile.
Carmela, meanwhile, has four kids from a previous relationship. After she began dating Jeremiah, she made her reality TV debut in 2016 alongside him on the Breaking Amish spinoff, Return to Amish. The show’s third season concluded with the couple’s wedding.
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Less than one year later, however, the duo made headlines when Jeremiah was arrested for domestic violence in April 2017. Carmela alleged in a police report that the incident was not the first time her husband had physically abused her, claiming that he struck her “on a daily basis.”
The charges against him were dropped in July 2018 after he completed a pretrial diversion, but the pair soon faced more turmoil. In October 2017, Jeremiah claimed that Carmela stole $15,000 before leaving him. Carmela claimed in response that Jeremiah had been physically abusing her. “I’m so scared but I’m free from his manipulation and he can go ahead spread his lies but in the end, [the] truth will come out,” she wrote in a