On Thursday, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) sources told Fox News that the “Jersey Shore” star was taken into custody at 11:50 a.m. local time on the California penal code offense of intimate partner violence with injuries and a prior incident.
Now the star has spoken out on social media.
“I am grateful for all of my real friends!” he began in a written message on his Instagram Story on Monday. “Thank you for being by myself the last few weeks.”
‘JERSEY SHORE’ STAR RONNIE ORTIZ-MAGRO ARRESTED ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ALLEGATION IN LOS ANGELES
He said that he finds “lessons” in his experiences and that troubling times are a “weeding process,” because “you learn who really cares about you when your [sic] down and out and than [sic] you see who doesn’t.”