Zachery Ty Bryan, Now Dad of 7, Speaks of His Sins after Marrying and Losing His High School Love

• Zachery Ty Bryan rose to fame as a child star in the 1990s before enjoying a successful career in Hollywood.
• He married his high school sweetheart and had four children with her before his marriage ended in 2020, a month before his arrest.
• After going through ups and downs, the actor is with his fiancée, Johnnie Faye Cartwright, who recently gave birth to his twins.

If you grew up watching sitcoms in the 1990s, you would know the Taylors from “Home Improvement,” one of the most popular ABC series. The sitcom revolved around a couple and their three kids, the eldest of whom was Brad Taylor, played by Zachery Ty Bryan.

Bryan began as a child star on the show before he gradually transitioned into an adult actor, taking on roles in various movies and TV shows. He has enjoyed a successful career, but his personal life has been full of ups and downs.

The “Longshot” actor is now a doting father to seven children from two women. He was previously married to his high school sweetheart but parted ways with her years after tying the knot.

Besides being a father, Bryan invested in Bitcoin when it was launched and now enjoys the profits he earned over time. He has also been arrested and has allegations of fraud against him.

The actor opened up about what happened in his life and how he coped with everything. He lived happily with his family until an incident in 2020 changed everything.

Bryan tied the knot with his high school sweetheart, Carly Matros, in 2007. The couple welcomed their twin girls in 2014 and then had their third daughter in 2016. The couple welcomed their last child, a son, in 2019.

The actor lived with his longtime wife and four kids in his Newport Beach, California, home. He was living a seemingly perfect life with his family, having no financial troubles, and enjoying a promising career in Hollywood.

Bryan lived in a luxurious home, and it is no secret that the actor earned profits by investing some of his “Home Improvement” earnings in cryptocurrency. He followed the advice of a former child star who had explored Bitcoin and eventually invested a part of his wealth in Bitcoin to earn millions of dollars.

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s source, Bryan is very open about his wealth and once presented himself as a “wealthy guy” when the insider spoke to him on call. The source added:

“He said he only worked part-time because he was a family guy who loved his wife and young kids and was a really hands-on father.”

Besides enjoying a successful career, Bryan had a great family life and didn’t have to worry about his finances. Everyone thought the actor had a good life until the world learned about his problems in 2020.

On October 16, 2020, Bryan was in the news for being arrested in Oregon. He was involved in an incident with Johnnie Faye Cartwright that made the police file a charge of felony strangulation against him.

The charge affected his reputation as he became the news highlight during that time. A month before his arrest, the actor and his wife parted ways after facing problems in their married life.

According to Bryan, Matros was great as a wife and a mother, but he wasn’t living “the way he was raised.” He confessed he was not faithful, and his wife eventually had to end their marriage because of his lifestyle. He revealed what went wrong:

“I thought I would be able to go out and do whatever I wanted, have fun, come home, and be a family man with my kids.”

After the actor’s life problems came to light, his friends and coworkers were asked about what had happened to him. When his “Home Improvement” father, Tim Allen, was asked the same question, he said he had no idea about it.

Allen said the former child star had “grown into a complex man” and had no idea why Bryan did what he did. He added that he couldn’t control Bryan’s circumstances and that no one can tell what a person does when they “get corrupted.”

Now, more than two years after the arrest, Bryan thinks he needed to get into that situation because it helped him improve his life. He learned a lot after being arrested in 2020.

The actor said his arrest was a “wake-up call” and admitted that alcohol consumption added to his problems. He confessed that he had been drinking since he was 14.

He had access to alcohol at that age because of his fame as a child star. The actor said clubs would allow him to enter despite knowing he was not an adult only because he had worked in “Home Improvement.”

The arrest made the actor realize he had to stay away from alcohol to avoid problems. However, his split from his wife wasn’t the only problem the actor had faced.

A spokesperson of the startup, Producers Market, revealed that Bryan “misrepresented” the company while working with them as an adviser in 2018. Bryan denied the company’s claims after he stopped working with them in 2019.

Currently, Bryan is with Cartwright, who he shares three children with. The news of their engagement surfaced in November 2021 when Cartwright was pregnant with their first baby.

The actor revealed that they were pregnant with twins in November 2022. He shared a post on his private Instagram account that no longer exists. The couple welcomed their twins in May this year.