Gutierrez — who shared daughters Dareli, 3, and Esmi, 19 months, with Garinger — referred to as Garinger her “old flame, my first every little thing,” earlier than revealing he was “200 days sober.”

Whereas talking to DailyMail.com, Gutierrez broke her silence on Garinger’s passing. The 20-year-old — who shared daughters Dareli, 3, and Esmi, 19 months, with Garinger — referred to as her ex her “old flame, my first every little thing,” earlier than revealing he was “200 days sober.”

Garinger’s mom, Mary Hobbs, introduced that Garinger died on February 28 following an ATV parking job in entrance of their house in Boone, North Carolina, confirming the information to The Solar.

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“Me and Sean weren’t on the perfect of finest phrases however we had lastly acquired on with our lives,” Gutierrez informed DailyMail.com. “‘We by no means actually talked one on one, it was at all times by way of my sisters or his mother, and he was doing higher. He was over 200 days sober. He had simply come to go to the ladies every week prior.”

“I do know from what his mother stated he was happier than ever to see them,” she continued. “The ladies liked him. He was planning to come back again and see them on his personal.”

“I do know he was in class. He had acquired out of rehab and moved along with his mother to Carolina. My coronary heart aches for her,” Gutierrez added. “I want we had acquired to have another good dialog about every little thing.”

The truth star — who starred on Season 6 of 16 and Pregnant alongside Garinger in 2020 — went on to element the second she realized about Garinger’s demise, sharing that her sister got here into her room and informed her the heartbreaking information.

“She simply checked out me and stated ‘Sean’s gone,’” Gutierrez recalled. “I used to be like ‘what do you imply?’ She stated ‘Sean’s useless.’”

“I keep in mind simply being in shock saying ‘no approach, you are mendacity,’” she added. “She was like ‘no, [Garinger’s mom] simply referred to as me.”‘

Though their relationship had its ups and downs, Gutierrez stated she’s “crushed,” admitting that she’s uncertain how she’s going to interrupt the information to their children.

“Irrespective of the circumstances, that was my children’ father,” she informed DailyMail.com. “Not solely was I with him for nine-plus years, he was my old flame, my first every little thing and we had two lovely daughters that I’ll at all times be pleased about.”

“They did not deserve this. They want their daddy,” she added. “I do not understand how I’m going to inform them once they become older.”

Garinger’s mother confirmed her son’s passing to The Solar, revealing she “was with him” when the ATV accident occurred.

“He was simply shifting [the ATV] from one parking spot to the following for me, so I might again in to park,” she recalled. “He pulled [in] entrance of me to park the ATV and the bottom gave approach from all of the rain and dirt.”

Hobbs, 40, added the ATV flipped over and “crushed” Garinger’s cranium.

“I ran to neighbors attempting to get somebody to assist me get the ATV off of him. Nobody answered. I ran again to him,” she continued. “By that point, I noticed he wasn’t alive anymore.”

“I simply laid subsequent to him till the ambulance confirmed up,” Hobbs stated.

She went on to mourn her son’s passing, telling the outlet, “There was an enormous a part of my coronary heart that died with my son on Wednesday.”

“He was my solely son, my rock, my energy once I had none left,” she continued. “We liked spontaneously leaping within the automotive for a highway journey or a seashore sesh. We bonded over music, quick vehicles, and capturing weapons, and taking new adventures.”

“Sean brightened my world in a approach nobody else might ever come near. He was my child boy, my squishy, my heartbeat,” she added.