Star: Breaking Amish Is Fake; Photos Of Jeremiah Raber Driving, Using Cell & Smoking
October 4, 2012 by Hollywoodite
It’s taken four episodes in as many weeks for the tabloids to call Breaking Amish fake, even though it’s been well-established that nothing except their religious backgrounds and names are real. TLC even admitted the show’s fake.
The cast’s whole back stories, including kids, career hopes, social media, exposure to the “English” world, an arrest, marriages, and at least one divorce, have been obfuscated or hidden entirely.
Their bios are, for practical purposes, 100% inauthentic. Almost everyone left up-to-and-including 14 years before the start of filming, then staged scenes of “real life” in an unoccupied Amish home, and it’s even alleged actors played some of their extended family. Moreover, they’ve not been shunned, since they’ve already left and remain close to their families.
One of the phoniest people on the show is Jeremiah Raber, who’s been pretending to have never had exposure to the “English” (so-called because of their first language) way of life. For example, on the show, he pretends to have never worn non-Amish clothes. Which is proven untrue because he was on MySpace between 2007 and 2010 on a page that’s deleted-but-cached. On his profile, he’s wearing non-Amish clothes. And, on the social media of friends and family, he’s wearing non-Amish clothing, since, says his ex-wife who spoke to a local news station and Star Magazine, he left the community 14-years-ago.
On a previous episode, Raber pretended not to know how to drive either. However, says his ex-wife, the mother of his three kids (whose names he had added to what’s thought to be an existing tattoo), his parents gave him two cars and Star has photos of him driving.
Star, below, also has photos of Raber on a cell phone in Florida in 2004, smoking while fishing in Tappan Lake in Ohio in 2006, and driving his Mustang in Ohio in 2004.
The ex-wife, Naomi Stutzman (formerly Naomi Raber), tells Star: “I feel like he’s disrespected the entire Amish community with his lies… I’m sure he sees it as a great opportunity… I think I saw him pretty close to breaking up laughing on camera a few times. It certainly gave me a good laugh. He’s so over the top with his act about not having any experience with this stuff.”
Here’s the piece from Star Magazine (click through then once again to enlarge).
