Ryan Edwards is officially a single— yet engaged— man!
After a years-long court battle, the Teen Mom star’s marriage to Mackenzie Standifer finally ended at a hearing on Friday. The Sun confirmed that the divorce— which Mackenzie first filed for in February 2023— was granted, and that both Mack and Ryan were present in the courtroom.
The decision comes after literally years of fighting in court, a mutual restraining order, a trashed home, a bitter custody fight and multiple online squabbles between Mack and Ryan’s latest lady Amanda Conner.
While Ryan and Mackenzie were surely relieved to be done with the court battle, perhaps no one was more excited than Amanda that Ryan is no longer married. She took to Instagram on Friday to commemorate the milestone.
“Today is a day we shall cherish & celebrate,” she wrote in a post, set to Mark Chesnutt’s “Goin’ Through the Big D,” a song about divorce.
As The Ashley has previously reported, Ryan and Amanda got engaged in January and welcomed their daughter Presley soon after. However, the couple hasn’t been able to get married, due to Ryan still legally being married to Mackenzie.
From what The Ashley can gather, the exes’ mutual restraining order still stands (as of press time).
Ryan has also been approved to pay Mack the reduced amount of child support he asked for last month. (As The Ashley told you, Ryan filed a motion in July to ask the court to adjust the current child support agreement between him and Mack to reflect the fact that he is no longer raking in big bucks from appearing on ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.’ Now that the show is on hiatus, Ryan revealed that he is bringing in a drastically lower income as a mechanic than he was when he was on the show.)
One day before the divorce was granted, Mackenzie filed a document with the court to show that she has completed the court-ordered parenting classes the judge required of both parties. As of press time, it does not appear that Ryan has filed anything to prove he has also completed the classes.
Ryan recently took their kids— Stella and Jagger— on an Edwards Family Vacation to Florida, with Amanda in tow. During the trip, Amanda posted a TikTok video of her with Stella, something that garnered the future Mrs. Ryan Edwards some criticism from fans. After some of Amanda’s TikTok followers commented that Mack would probably not be thrilled to see her daughter in a video with Amanda, she fired back.
“Thankfully you’re not the [baby mama],” Amanda replied. “Either way I wouldn’t care… this is MY man’s children & I love them as my own so I share the memories just as I would my own.”
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Amanda has only been allowed to be around Stella and Jagger since February, when a judge ruled that Amanda could be present when Ryan has the kids. That decision came after Mackenzie battled Ryan in court to keep Amanda from being around Stella and Jagger.
In the comment section of her TikTok post, Amanda stated that her relationship with Stella has come a long way in a few months.
“She loves you and I love y’alls relationship,” someone wrote, to which Amanda replied, “I know and I just love her so much!”
Now that Mackenzie and Ryan are no longer married, he is free to marry Amanda. However, the couple has yet to announce when they plan to get hitched.
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that amanda conner ~ she’s all class!! 😹🤣
No one is happier than his ex wife.
It’s crazy to me how many people were manipulated by Maci all those years ago and have never wised up since. Maci was jealous as HELL of Mack being with Ryan. So she invited her out and tried to turn her against Ryan’s parents. Mack had no reason to give her loyalty to Maci so of course she told his parents what she was saying. THAT was how it all began. Maci was jealous AS HELL!! And Maci wasnt dumb enough to be manipulated by her. Maci has always been a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Always!!
*Mack wasn’t dumb enough to be manipulated by Maci.
Are you kidding me? Did you not watch the seasons when Mack and Ryan were together? Mack constantly lied and covered up for Ryan’s behavior for years and then had the audacity to claim Maci “exploited” him on TV and pretended Maci was the only one that knew about his substance abuse problem. Maci was treated like crap by Mack, Larry and Jen because she was the only one that didn’t enable Ryan.
And why on Earth would Maci be jealous of Mack? Ryan was a bum and Maci was happily married to Taylor. As a matter of fact, Maci was very accepting of Mack when she first started dating Ryan. Their relationship went sour when Mack started all the drama. So actually, it looked more like Mack was the one that was jealous. Ryan even said on camera that he had dreams about Maci lol. I could actually see the steam coming out of Mack’s ears when he said that.
Amanda is a POS deadbeat like Ryan, that’s why she wants him so hard like he’s some kind of prize 😂
Karma will get her soon enough…
Rhine’s gonna be meeting a new boo at the Food Lion way before Amanda gets a marriage license. Now that his pesky divorce is out of the way, he is going to start noticing everything that annoys him about Amanda and start to consider her the old ball and chain. Especially if she has the nerve to expect any kind of parenting duties out of him.
The fact that Amanda posted that she didn’t care how a child’s mother would feel about Amanda posting videos of her child shows that Mackenzie was right to try and keep her away from the kids. No way Amanda will allow a co parenting relationship in this situation. She is far to disrespectful and selfish. She is the step mom from hell.
If I heard that I’d get something in court writing saying she couldn’t post stuff herself of the kids online, only Ryan can. Eff that. Don’t like Mack but I don’t blame her for doing what she previously did one bit.
Amanda is rocking sobriety. I even made my very first Tik Tok account to see her on there. She is hilarious although I did see Ryan annoyed in the background on one. And I think Maci secretly hates Amanda because she got the “sober Ryan”.
I guess if this is her “rocking sobriety,” she is actually just a bad person?
what is the account? The link on here that was viewable on my mobile won’t take me there.
Ive been convinced for awhile that “Stanley Smith” is actually Amanda Conner.
What exactly convinced you of that ?
Amanda isn’t sober, she simply stopped partaking in the very specific drugs she was told to stop consuming. She still drinks, clearly at times to excess even still, and you can’t be considered sober while still drinking. Is she possibly, at times, potentially, working towards sobriety? Maybe. Is she always or even mostly working towards sobriety? No.
Oh boo hoo, everyone hates Amanda, and it’s everyone else’s fault that they do… Maybe if she wasn’t such an asshole, people would like her. She chooses to be the way she is, even when she’s not drinking or drugged up. That should tell you she has the personality of a rotten potato. No one likes rotten potatoes either.
Having a 6 month old baby with your third baby mama before your divorce is even final is insane. Let’s be real…. if Ryan wasn’t attractive, you would not be shown so much grace for all of the awful things he’s done to his family and children.
Possibly his 4th Baby Mama!
about time, both their pettiness is so annoying and hopefully they can all stfu and either leave each other alone or actually get along coparenting for their children’s sakes
Mackenzie was young when she met Ryan, I think she’s been treated absolutely horribly by Ryan, Maci and Amanda. She has no right to be doing these things because there are two kids involved in that marriage, she wasn’t a part of it.. I hate shit like that. Team Mackenzie right now. This is trash, Amanda and Maci are trash
Yes and it really weeds out snakey people. The whole lot of them have shown their true colors. Anyone who supports that kind of behavior has shown their true colors. 🐍
nah what ryan did to mackenzie and their children’s home was horrible and maci not looking out for her afterwards was garbage too but that and mackenzie’s age does not excuse how horrible she was to maci and allowing ryan to treat bentley the way he did during his addiction, even maci loved mackenzie and was inviting her to do stuff like just like does with amanda before their relationships turned sour, yall gotta stop acting like mackenzie was so innocent in all this when she acted like she had no idea about his addiction
She’s free to marry her BF now!
Oh wait he’s still married to your best ex friend.
exactly what i mean!!! mackenzie’s a year older than me and i would’ve never acted the way she had all this tome
I agree that Maci is complete trash for being all buddy buddy with Amanda- It’s very strange to me. Amanda seems very petty, which I think won’t help Mack and Ryan co-parent- ever. In normal situations I think a stepmom/girlfriend that is good to the kids, should be able to be around the kids. However, in this situation I think if I were Mack, I’d be concerned with just Ryan being around the kids after what he’s done to the house and his history with using- same with Amanda. I mean, they literally meant in rehab. And I say this as a recovering addict myself. Plus, I don’t think Ryan has his children’s best interest in mind anyway- he’s tried everything he can to NOT pay child support and/or to reduce it and he destroyed their home- in addition, even though I know he’s got what some would consider a good amount of time being sober, he really is freshly sober and I personally do not think he’s working in a program of recovery. Otherwise, he wouldn’t behave the way he still behaves sober.
They still drink.
Mackenzie was young, but also had 1 child, 1 marriage, and 1 divorce under her belt before getting with Ryan. So she wasn’t exactly new to the game. Let’s also not forget she knowingly drove with high druggie to a rushed park wedding and proceeded to blame Maci for Ryan’s problems. I hope Mackenzie can get it together for the sake of her and her kids well being, but all the hate she gets was and is completely brought on by herself. She’s just another tin can in the trash heap that is Ryan’s baby mommas.
thank you!! it’s what i’ve been saying!!! and also just recently she was caught cheating with a friend’s husband yet meanwhile people wanna hate on amanda for being with ryan while he was still legally married???
The problem with Amanda is not that Ryan was married: Ryan is a POS deadbeat and she didn’t even have custody of her own child when she got pregnant again.
Amanda probably still wouldn’t have custody of her child if it weren’t for those teen mom paychecks. FFS, they met in court ordered rehab!
Amanda needs to be careful she doesn’t end up exactly like Mackenzie. If she does, she will get no sympathy from me. Ryan’s a trash bag full of red flags and it’s no mystery as to what you’re getting with him.
No one hates on Amanda for being with Ryan while he was still legally married, lmao. People hate on her for the trash that she is, has apparently always been, and still can’t seem to stop being. She’s a shit person, full stop, and that’s why people hate on her. People hate on her for HOW and WHERE they got together-because, duh, court ordered rehab, wtaf, lol. No one gives a flying fuck that they got together after Mack and Ryan separated, but were still legally married.
lol, Right! Doesn’t Amanda have a “cooter licking” tattoo on her arm?! What sane parent wants their children hanging out with that?