Just hours after her son Jace blasted her in a series of private text conversations posted to social media, Jenelle Evans is responding.
The fired Teen Mom star took to Instagram on Tuesday night to address what her 16-year-old son had done, and to reveal that the 16-year-old and her have been going head-to-head lately. She also decided to reveal that Jace had been in trouble with the law recently.
As The Ashley previously told you, Jace posted screenshots of texts between him and his mom that showed Jenelle in a very unflattering light. In the texts, Jenelle allegedly cussed at him, accused him of lying about her now-ex-husband David Eason strangling him back in 2023, threatened to get Jace taken away and more. Jace also called his mom “unstable” and wrote that he wanted to go back to North Carolina so that he no longer had to live with Jenelle in Las Vegas.
Jenelle— whose parenting has been criticized in recent weeks due to her going out on the town very frequently with her live-in bestie Tori Rhyne— started off her response by writing that her kids “are my entire world.” She then wrote that she tries to protect her kids (which also include son Kaiser and daughter Ensley) and set boundaries for them. Jenelle claimed that Jace posted the screenshots out of spite after she punished him.
“Jace posting our private texts was his reaction to being rightfully disciplined,” Jenelle wrote. “While it hurts to see those moments shared publicly, I know it comes from a place of struggle. Navigating Jace’s different medical diagnoses has not been easy but I have never stopped fighting to make sure he has the resources, love and support he needs…
Back in May, Jenelle revealed details about the mental health disorders Jace has.
“My son has been dealing with mental health disorders since he’s been 10 years old. He was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 10, and most recently, in 2023, he was also diagnosed with major depressive disorder, along with his ADHD and defiant disorder ODD,” Jenelle said at the time.
On Tuesday, ChatGPT Jenelle wrote that she will “always stand by” Jace, “no matter what challenges come our way and I will continue to work on being the best mom I can be to all three of my kids.”
She asked her followers for “empathy, kindness and prayers.”
In the next post, Jenelle continued to discuss the situation with Jace, exposing that the 16-year-old has recently run afoul with the law.
“Recently he’s also been in trouble with the law these past few months and is having a hard time adjusting to the rules set before him,” Jenelle revealed. “I’ve been trying everything to help him navigate it, but we are butting heads in the process.”
“Please give us grace at this time,” Jenelle continued. “This is hard on all of us.”
Jenelle took some heavy criticism after she posted the statements to her Facebook page.
“But you are out all the time in Las Vegas partying going to night clubs,” one person wrote.
“I’m sorry but telling your teenage child ‘f**k you’ is not ‘rightful discipline,'” another person commented. “Absolutely not.”
“You reap what you sow Jenelle….ultimately and tragically his outbursts are trauma from you and the way he was raised…” someone else wrote.
“‘Posting our private texts’ you’ve shared his entire life to the world,” someone else pointed out.
Jace’s posts remain online as of press time, but he has not posted anything else.
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All these disorders and diagnoses for Jace.. gee I wonder why he has such mental instability
to disgust everyone even further:
tori made a post w/the last two lines of swamp queen’s 🧟♀️👑 first post (‘our family as we work through this together’) placed over a ‘suggestive’ 🤢🤮 pic of the two of them canoodling in some gross, cheap looking early 2000s lingerie…and a link to the OF page. 😤🙄
yes, using the situation to advertise their nasty, skanky p0rn site. how utterly VILE.
(no, i don’t follow tori or any of these fools ~ it was reposted elsewhere)
If he wants to go back to NC, and get away from Jenelle, ppl need to make that happen.
I knew from the first correctly placed comma that she didn’t write that. What in the ChatGPT is this?
Farrah seems to have caught onto ChatGPT as well. In the last article about her, her writing seemed more coherent and less word salad Farrah-speak.
The amount of people agreeing with her, saying they completely understand because their teens also act out like this, and telling her to “keep up the great parenting” in her comments is so fucking concerning for those people’s children!
Both Jenelle and Jace need therapy and meds. Jenelle isn’t doing anything for her mental health illness so I doubt she isn’t doing anything for Jace. Those texts showed both of them in manic episodes. Jace most likely never had any rules when he was at Barb’s either so of course, if Jenelle did set up rules, he’s not going to follow them and will lash out. Then him saying he doesn’t care about his siblings which he doesn’t since if Jenelle loses custody, Ensley will go live with David who is much worse. He strangled Jace yet Jace is okay with his little sister to go live with him? People saying Kaiser and Ensley should go live with their dads, are crazy and you truly don’t care about the kids at all. So y’all support abusers and not victims. Jenelle’s sister might be the only safe, best place for them. Whether you like it or not, Jenelle is still a victim.
Are you stupid or something?
The vast majority of people think that all three children should have never been in the care of Jenelle, David, Nathan or Andrew. We’ve all been saying it for years. Jenelle is 100% not a victim, she is a product of her own making. She COULD get treatment for whatever might ail her, including psychologically, but *chooses* not to. She also *chooses* not to get Jace proper treatment, which he was getting for years before he was put in her custody. Hell she had to be forced to get her kids to the doctor, put them in school and get a tutor because two of them are years behind academically. There is zero and I do mean ZERO reason for why Jace is not getting the treatment he desperately needs. He has known diagnosed mental health problems, he has medications, he has therapies, none of which Jenelle is giving him access to, or (by her own words) willing to pay for. Don’t make excuses for her shit behavior by calling her a victim, you’re just as delusional as she is.
Jace is a teen who has a shit adult pretending to be his parent. She won’t get him help, won’t let him seek out his own help and does nothing but choose to antagonize him when his mental health issues do arise. It is not at all surprising that he gets angry with her. Him saying he doesn’t care about his siblings is likely a product of the exact conversation we see there. HE WANTS TO GET HELP FOR HIS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OVERALL WELLBEING AND HIS CUNTRAG OF A PARENT WON’T LET HIM! Is that loud enough for you?
One reason she won’t let him, is because HE takes care of his siblings-not her-and if he’s not there to do it, she doesn’t know who will. He’s tired, as a 16 year old KID, of being responsible for children he didn’t choose to give birth to, especially when he’s not in the best state of mind. How can you blame him for that? She has said, many times now, that Jace takes care of them, he babysits, he feeds them, he cleans up for them, he’s there for them. It’s perfectly reasonable for him to get fed up and say he doesn’t care about them if you think of it in the context of the conversation there where he clearly expresses that he needs and wants help, but can’t get it there. It’s obvious she’s trying to make him feel bad for wanting to leave and get himself help.
Manic episodes? Nothing about this says manic episode, and as someone with a bipolar spouse that has witnessed actual mania, it’s exhausting to see people shrug off crappy behavior and say it’s a manic episode. This is Janelle being a crap parent and a teenager who has never had a loving parent or stability.
After Jaces upbringing he is allowed to put himself first until he gets free.
Parents are responsible for protecting their children, not other children.
Also, are there more texts? Nothing in those texts indicate mania, nor in there enough info to make that determination.
Jace’s entire situation breaks my heart. We watched him grow up from birth and I remember Barb begging Jenelle to put him up for adoption because she knew it was the only way he’d stand a chance in life.
I pray he doesn’t do anything major to ruin his life before he’s able to get away from her for good. I hope he’s eventually able to heal and know that we were all rooting for him and none of us bought into her bullshit.
He is so very close to being free, I hope he makes it.
I often think of Jace when I read all the anti-adoption rhetoric that seems to be everywhere lately. I wonder if he could be living the life of Carly Davis? Sadly, we’ll never know.
Even Carly hasn’t been able to escape the Teen Mom Insanity
I just hate Jenelle so much.
“It hasn’t been easy to navigate Jace’s mental health issues”.
OK Kate Gosselin.
Yup, as soon as a kid is hard to deal with now everyone pulls the mental health card crap to explain away their lack of parenting or they use it and completely disregard the fact that their parenting is making their kids have mental health issues. SMFH so many people out here who would love to raise kids and yet these idiots get blessed with multiple kids to only abuse and neglect them. Nothing makes me more angry.
This “my kids are my world” mom is the same one saying FU you in the text to her child?
While I can see Jace posting the texts in angry rebellion and retaliation it still doesn’t explain why she’d reply saying that what happened to him with David was a lie … I get we all say things we don’t mean when we are heated and angry but damn .
“I ask for empathy and prayers during this time, not just for me…”
B*tch, no-one cares about you!
What kind of mother are you? If you really cared you wouldn’t AGAIN throw Jace and his personal medical information under the bus to cover your big ass and you would’ve asked for empathy FOR JACE! You know, that long haired teenager you buy weed for, who babysits your kids for days on end and who doesn’t go to school. That dude.
You act more like a distant older sister to Jace than his mother.
Jace, please look into emancipation, get yourself a book deal and find a loving family to give you stability, structure and love. You don’t want to follow your older sister’s path in life. All that glistens isn’t gold.
THIS. I got out early after cps got involved, and I hope he can too. (Cps wasn’t involved in me getting out but parents didn’t want more legal trouble if their abuse was reported.)
The worst kid in the world doesn’t deserve an f-u from their Mom. How sad this all this. Hey Jenelle, get someone to watch the kids and go get some help before you do this two more times and end up with 3 products of this destruction. At some point the cycle breaks … one way, or another.
What a sorry mess. He started life with one hand tied behind his back because he lost the parent lottery. I hope for his sake finds a soft place to land and some peace in his life sooner than later.
Can not imagine that whore money she makes is tax free. And I don’t picture her paying taxes. Hopefully someone at the IRS reads this and investigates. Wonder if the IRS has a tip line number?? Anyone have info on this topic??
We could organize a mass calling to them!
And CPS
I’m down.
She will continue to be. The best parent she can be, which is a piss poor neglect one. She never puts her children first, not emotionally or financially. She bullies and tears them down to build up her narcissistic behavior. A mothers job is to sacrifice her own addiction and desires. If she is that rich, Jace should be in the best treatment center money can buy. Selfish stupid bitch. Would love to be a fly on the wall in her house tonight. Guarantee the cops will be back ….
What would Kesha do?
#FreeJace
So she does admit to once again defending David abusing Jace and telling her child “F**k you” .. nice.
According to Jace Jenelle was standing there yelling and cussing
In his face. She also claimed there was no Ring Camera footage.
She’s exactly who we’ve always known she was. An absolute trash bag of a parent and human being.
The fact she has put all that stuff out publicly, on tv and on social media, but is mad he released private texts… shows what a narcissist she really is.
“Recently he has been in trouble with the law”.
Bitch, you’ve been arrested 15 times with 15 separate mugshots. Stop it.
oh i already know jenelle’s getting that tiktok of jace’s childhood pictures ready to post just like she did with maryssa
and also jenelle basically admitted she did cuss jace out and call him a liar
The best thing those kids could ever do for themselves is to cut her off as soon as they possibly can and never look back. They will heal faster in her absence than could ever be possible with her present. The mother wound is real and it’s tragic and she is the gaping hole that they may never fully recover from. But their only chance is with her in their past and never in their future.
Barbara must be in your house saying “Now she’s going to let you know what I went through with you.”