Savannah Chrisley and Nic Kerdiles.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty; Paul Archuleta/Getty

Savannah Chrisley Clears Up ‘Misconceptions’ About Ties to Late Ex Nic After Posting PDA Pics with New Love

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The cause ofNic Kerdiles' death has been determined.

PEOPLE has also reached out to the Nashville City Medical Examiner regarding aTMZreport that Kerdiles, who was 29, had illegal amounts of alcohol in his system.

Nic Kerdiles takes a selfie.Nic Kerdiles/Instagram

Nic Kerdiles

At the time of Kerdiles' death, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department toldWRKN News 2that he’d run through a stop sign in a residential area north of the Tennessee capital while on his Indian Motorcycle at around 3:30 a.m.

Kerdiles began dating reality starSavannah Chrisleyin 2017. The pair gotengagedin 2019, but they called off the wedding in July 2020. “Nic and I have been together for two and a half years. We’re just trying to find our place in this world,” Chrisley, now 26, told PEOPLE at the time.

“We’re working on ourselves in order to be better for each other. I like to say our relationship is unique and we’re kind of marching to our own beat,” she said, adding that they were still together at that point but had “rushed into thingsway too fast” and now “want to make sure we’re both in a healthy place.”

Savannah Chrisley and Nic Kerdiles.Paul Archuleta/Getty

Savannah Chrisley (L) and Nic Kerdiles (R) celebrate their Engagement on March 27, 2019 in Santa Monica, California.

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“I’m still hoping you respond to my text…,” she wrote above the clip before later sharing a beachside pic of the pair with the caption. “Heaven gained the most beautiful angel today … I miss and love you. I’ll forever save our last messages of ‘I love you.'”

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TheUnlockedpodcast host eventually posted a more extensive tribute, noting howKerdiles’ untimely death wasn’t “fair.”

“We had some really great, bright moments, and we had some really hard ones,” she wrote in anInstagram post, “but the part of our relationship I will hold on to will always be the moments in the middle.”

source: people.com