Party Down South reality TV star Mattie Breaux, 31, is jailed for seven days after being convicted of third DUI
Mattie Breaux, a cast member of the reality TV shows Party Down South and Floribama Shore, has been sentenced to a year in jail, with all but seven days suspended, after being convicted of driving under the influence.
Breaux, 31, was arrested in Nashville in August 2019 on a DUI charge following a single-vehicle crash.
Breaux admitted to police that she had taken hydrocodone without prescription and consumed two beers before getting behind the wheel.
Mattie Breaux, 31, has pleaded guilty to DUI and was sentenced to a year in jail, with all but seven days suspended
Breaux previously appeared on the CMT reality TV show Party Down South
Breaux, a former bartender, crashed her car in August 2019 in Nashville after washing down unprescribed hydrocodone with two beers
Breaux has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DUI and will serve seven days at the Davidson County Jail on weekends, followed by nearly a year of supervised release, as TMZ first reported.
As part of her sentence, Breaux's license will be suspended for a year.
According to police, the brunette reality show star was driving her 2016 white Honda Accord shortly after 2am on August 17, 2019, when she crashed the vehicle into a concrete median on Interstate 24.
Breaux, who suffered minor injuries to her face, as seen in her booking photo, told police she had gotten the prescription painkiller from a friend and washed it down with beer, according to Scoop Nashville.
A month after her crash, Breaux bragged on Twitter about being 30 days sober
Breaux is known to reality show fans from her turns on MTV's The Challenge and Floribama Shore. The show followed a group of men and women vacationing on the Gulf Coast
Breaux's criminal record includes two DUI arrests in Louisiana, which resulted in licen se suspensions
At the time of her arrest, Breaux revealed that she had two prior DUI arrest in her native Louisiana, which resulted in two separate suspensions of her driver's license.
Breaux is best known to reality TV aficionados from her appearances on CMT's Party Down South and MTV's Floribama Shore and The Challenge.
Party Down South followed a group of eight young Southerns spending their summer in a seaside town in South Carolina. The show premiered in 2014 and ended its run in 2016.
Breaux joined the cast of Floribama Shore last year. The show, which wrapped up Season 3 earlier this year, documents the exploits of eight men and women in their 20s and early 30s who live together during the summer on the Gulf Coast.
In an interview with TV Insider in January, Breaux, who previously worked as a bartender, lamented: ‘I can no longer party like I used to with Party Down South. My hangovers take two days now.’