Nic Kerdiles, Savannah Chrisley’s ex-fiance and former professional hockey player, has died at 29. According to TMZ, the former NHL player was killed after a motorcycle crash, passing away due to his injuries early Saturday morning.
As the outlet details, Nashville PD confirmed Kerdiles’ passing and said the accident was likely the result of Kerdiles running a stop sign north of the city. The police say Kerdiles struck the driver’s side of a BMW with his motorcycle, stopping the car immediately and sending Kerdiles to the hospital.
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Kerdiles even posted a photo to his Instagram account earlier in the night, showing him on his Indian motorcycle clad in his helmet. Police confirmed that neither Kerdiles nor the BMW driver were impaired.
Savannah Chrisley and Kerdiles were engaged back in 2018, with the Chrisley Knows Best daughter deciding to call off the wedding. They had been together since 2017 and Kerdiles even appeared on Chrisley Knows Best, rubbing shoulders with Todd and Julie Chrisley in the days before they were sent to prison.
Chrisley addressed the breakup at the time, noting that the show played a part in pushing her to call it off. “When we got engaged, I feel like it was for all the wrong reasons. When he proposed, I knew it shouldn’t have been happening,” Chrisley said. “It was filmed, it was on TV. His family was there, my family was there. It was not the way I would want it to go down, ever.”
“Everything was just wrong at the time. Granted, I loved him, I was in love with him. It was just, there was so much more work that needed to be done before you got married,” she added. Kerdiles and the Chrisley family remained connected after the split, appearing in a video with Todd Chrisley in February 2022.
In the video, Kerdiles opened up about his mental health struggles amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m super grateful to be here today…I don’t know where I was at in my mental state but between the depression, anxiety, the COVID effects. the medication, the alcohol, I did something that I never thought I would ever do,” he said in the emotional clip. He noted the mixture put him in a “full blackout” and he ended up with a gun in his hand. A friend and the Chrisleys were around for support.
He’d been focusing on family and trying to enjoy life a bit since that point. Sadly, his life was cut short. Rest in peace.
