Jace Evans is once again speaking out on social media— and this time, the Teen Mom kid is letting concerned followers know that he’s doing OK now that he’s back in North Carolina. He’s also reacting to recent social media posts his mom, Jenelle Evans, made regarding him leaking their private text messages online earlier this week.
As The Ashley told you, Jace was shipped to North Carolina immediately after he released the text messages. (The messages show Jenelle telling her 16-year-old “F**K YOU!” and accusing him of lying about being allegedly strangled by David Eason in 2023, among other things.) After Jace posted the texts, Jenelle attempted to smooth things over by releasing a statement that claimed the texts were released by Jace out of spite after she punished him. She also gushed about how she loves and supports him, despite his mental health issues.
On Thursday, Jenelle even posted a clickbait story about Jace going to North Carolina on her Facebook page, something that apparently did not sit well with Jace.
In new posts made to Instagram Stories on Friday, Jace slammed his mom again and revealed that she has allegedly blocked him. He also revealed that he’s doing well in North Carolina.
“Crazy how my mom blocked me but I’m doing a lot better,” Jace wrote. “Just a[n] FYI, [I’m] down back in NC.”
Jace then referred to his mom’s recent social media posts about him.
“I just don’t understand why my Momma keeps putting up with all this bs, she needs to let everything go,” Jace wrote, before referring to a post Jenelle wrote on X on Thursday that accused Jace’s father Andrew Lewis of working with the tabloids to sell the story.
“She shut my phone off cus she’s mad but she keeps posting stupid stuff about tabloids. IDGAF about [that s**t]. Nobody in my family is doing that. So think what you wanna think but the truth is the truth,” Jace wrote.
He then told his mother that he’s aware that she doesn’t want him to post what he says is the truth about her and her parenting.
“Ur never gonna like it,” he wrote. “Suck[s] to hear that but, like I said, the truth is the truth.”
He then asked Jenelle to refrain from posting about him.
“She just needs to stop posting all this stuff,” Jace wrote. “It’s over. I’m back in NC and that’s that. She’s scared for her own loss.”
Jenelle, meanwhile, has been defending herself against comments blasting her for cussing out Jace, as well as for continuing to post negative things about him online. The fired ‘Teen Mom’ star has maintained that she is a stellar mom to Jace (as well as her other two kids Kaiser and Ensley.)
“How is she not cancelled?” one person wrote about Jenelle in the comment section of Jenelle’s latest TikTok post.
“Because nothing is factual you hear about me, I’m in fact a great mother,” Jenelle replied.
“No matter what our babies do to us, we shouldn’t ever cuss them directly,” another person wrote.
“And you don’t have any context but one sentence, don’t comment on things you don’t know about in detail,” Jenelle wrote back.
Another person brought up the fact that, although Jenelle’s own mother Barbara was often seen cursing at Jenelle on Teen Mom 2, that still gives Jenelle “no excuse to do her child the same way. It should have made her never want him to feel the way she did. Instead she is acting just like her mother.”
“You’re right, my mother was worse,” Jenelle responded. “You don’t know my childhood and that’s how [Jace] was raised.”
Although The Ashley is not posting where Jace is currently living in North Carolina, her source tells her that the 16-year-old is currently “safe and very happy to be there.”
“They’re hoping him living there will be made permanent,” the source added.
As of press time, Jenelle has not yet commented on Jace’s newest posts.
The Ashley will continue to update this story. Stay tuned…
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Clearly she doesn’t understand how this will all affect her in her custody case with Eason. I’m sure he is happy – she is literally giving him all the ammo he needs to win. I truly hope Jace is happy and safe now. My heart goes out to those kids. NC and NV CPS have really failed those kids. I wonder who will watch the younger two kids now that she got rid of the free babysitter.
where Jace is living now, I won’t give it 3 months. Won’t last, tried it .
Once again Jenelle is too dense to understand how her shit-talking Barbara’s parenting makes her own “parenting” look even worse since she allowed Jace to be raised by Barbara so she could focus on partying.
Barbara isn’t perfect by any means, but she’s worlds better than Jenelle has ever been. She at least tries and always made sure Jace was safe and had his meds and therapy.
My favorite part was where Jenelle simply took a little accountability and said, “I’m sorry to my son. I may not have been the best mother to him and I will try and do better, get him the help he needs! We’re all taking a break from social media to heal.” Oh wait….she didn’t and instead monetized the situation!
Does Jace have money being held for him,from his time on Teen Mom? If yes,I wonder how much he will get?
The Ashley and other media outlets need to stop giving her oxygen. No more Jenelle stories. It’s the only way to make her go away.
On the flip side, people being invested in Jenelle is also the reason that so many of her professional partnerships have fallen through.
I am living for this shit, can’t wait to hear the latest update about Jenelle. Wishing you all the best Jace. Stay strong, we are all rooting for you! Oh yeah, I forgot to mention fuck you Jenelle!
I’ve hated how she just makes everything thing about those kids public discourse. It was so disgusting she was postings vids of Kaiser while he was at the doctor’s office and giving detailed information about his medical history, like that should be criminal. I feel so sorry for the kids in her care and Jace, his mom is a complete embarrassment that is stuck the mentality of a teenager. Actually teenagers are more mature than her. I hope he goes NC with her and is able to led a happy adult life without all the drama. Jenelle will probably blame her mom or the children instead of looking in the mirror and realizing all the chaos and drama she embroils herself in.
Man, the emotions I feel for this kid…. Let me tell you all something- the things it does to your mind when you are genuinely beaten, and I mean BEATEN, not spanked or even hit once or twice but truly BEATEN, by a parent who then immediately turns it into a game and uses your own abuse AGAINST YOU and says it was your fault or that it never happened, are something that without having purpose will break the strongest of people. Being physically abused and then being told it was my fault or that it didn’t happen a multitude of times was the most crippling thing to me from about 17-25. Mind you, like Jace I was also used as a babysitter and most of the stuff that happened towards me was when I brought up my parentification. The one thing he doesn’t have that I fiercely stuck to, even in instances where it would have helped me to talk about it (therapy, etc), is a family bond. I never spoke out because I knew that while I had been a punching bag, neither of my siblings were treated this way, and it could have actually put them in a worse and more traumatic situation if they had been removed due to me openly talking about my own experiences.
I am SO HAPPY he is openly voicing what is happening though! While Janelle is fighting against what he is saying to the best of her ability, if he had never went this route and then later on started talking about it or went to write a tell-all or what not, I can tell you exactly what move she would have played from her “How to do the most psychological damage to a child, all before they turn 18!” playbook. She would have went on a media talking frenzy about “why has he never said this before?”, “Funny how he’s trying to act like this happened now!”, “After all the time that has gone by, I truly believe he’s mixing up what happened at my home and what happened at my mother’s. We all know how horrible Barb is! Just look at how I turned out!”
That all being said, what I AM concerned about during all of this is that you know dang well that while this all transpires she is sitting at her house talking to Kaiser and Ensley and saying “SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THINGS?! YOU GUYS LIKE ALL THE NEW THINGS MOMMY BUYS YOU? If you EVER try what Jace is doing EVERYTHING is gone!” She is using this instance as a lesson to show them how she will respond to what they do. So while Jace may be out of it, the dynamic this brings about just traps the younger two even more mentally.
Another thing I wanted to point out- the way she talked to Jace in those texts reminded me of Janelle’s leaked texts to Maryssa about how much she had done for her. She doesn’t do things for anyone because she wants to or because she’s a parent and is supposed to provide for her children, she does it as a form of control and manipulation. How often she brings up what she’s done for someone is truly horrible, and to be doing that to her SMALL CHILDREN is horrible. It sets up the idea in a child’s mind that if she gets too mad or upset with them that they could lose everything and even be without food. I feel like this is because Janelle does not know how to have a relationship with someone, ANYONE, that has organic emotions and feelings attributed to it. She does not know how to grow a loving relationship with her children so instead, she thinks they love her because they are being nice to her and showing affection and being good. She does not realize they do this because they feel they have to in order to have their basic needs met, not because they have an actual healthy and loving relationship with her. Mind you, these young kids also don’t realize this is NOT a normal relationship dynamic either. So when CPS becomes involved, what are they going to say? My guess is that it falls into one of two categories with her kids- 1. She tells them that if they say anything “mean” about her then they will not get x, y, z or that she will take something as well as offering rewards if they do it “right”. 2. Her kids speak THEIR “truth” so it really does seem like everything is ok. If you don’t know something is wrong or not supposed to be a certain way, how would you know to express otherwise?
The whole thing is heartbreaking either way, poor Jace spent the majority of his formative years wanting nothing more than for his Mom to show interest in him and love him- then when he finally gets the opportunity to experience that he gets abused, parentified, publicly bashed by the very person he is seeking love from. I am SO GLAD that he has been mentally strong enough to realize and see through Janelle though. Most kids would see that it was easier to just go along with it, if they realized the issues in the first place. Jace, I hope you know there are people rooting for you and that are better human beings than your mom. Don’t go into the world expecting everyone to be like her, because she is a rare breed, and let it affect your relationships. Take this fresh slate and build yourself a solid foundation to build a life on that you currently wish for. Unfortunately, as many of us as there are that would like to do this for you, this is something that you alone can do. Keep your head up and focused on bettering yourself and the things around you and you will be ok!
I’m really hoping Jace is back with Barbara. Say what you want but she provided most of the stability throughout his life. ALSO she makes sure he gets his medication and therapy he so desperately needs. Hopefully Jace will see this too after what he’s been trough these past 2 years and won’t give her such a hard time anymore
I hope he is not at Barbs, did you not watch the show? The first time she told him no and set rules on him he started a fire in her house, that is when he went back to Jenelle’s to live. I don’t know if he is to old for foster care won’t he be 17 on his next birthday? He needs to go live somewhere away from all of Jenelle’s family.
She is actually so stupid! We have receipts going all the way back to 2009 about her piece-of-shitness, yet still tries to gaslight and make excuses! Sorry lady, finally someone with sense, and realness about what you have PUT them through and LET them go through at the hands of others, is not backing down! She tries to BLAME and publicly front his mental illness, but has always tried to CONDONE her behavior because of her own mental illness. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Same as Jenelle always claiming Barb was a horrible mother, yet signs custody over just so she can “be a teenager”. I hope Jace never backs down because he is 100% validated in all this.
Jenelle is going to end up as a penniless, wrinkled old troll who has zero relationship with any of her kids. Jace, Kaiser, and Ensley will be living their best lives as they celebrate each day that is Jenelle free.
I have a feeling Kaiser will be there for her. Sadly I feel he has the kindness heart & will always be there for her. Even though she has NEVER been there for him. I hope not but that’s how I feel.
Kindest
Kaiser is a sweetheart but I think from a young age he realized he can’t count on any of his parents. So I feel like if his siblings will see the light, he will follow them cuz I’m sure the connection he has with them is way bigger than whatever he thinks he has with Jenelle.
I’m glad Jace is safe and happy!!!
Watch how his “problems” decrease without Jenelle and her influence. I imagine he does have mental health issues, but I also believe that being in unsafe and unstable environments make those issues worse. If he is struggling, I hope he gets the help he needs.
Since he’s still a minor, I hope that someone steps in and once and for all takes any parental rights Jenelle has away. This kid deserves a chance,as do Kaiser and Ensley.
As if we already didn’t know enough about how unmotherly Jenelle is, blocking your kid is the nail in that coffin. What kind of mother blocks their kid? At any age, but especially your teenage kid? I know how she hates him is probably tearing him up inside. But it is truly a blessing and he is better off with her completely cut from his life. I have no doubt at all that he’d be a whole different kid if she had walked away from the very start.
Things were looking up a bit until Tori entered the picture. It always seems like she brings out the worst in Jenelle whenever she’s around.
I hope Jace is staying with a friend and not with family. Although it would be funny if he was staying with Maryssa..
Jenelle and Jace are literally Barb and Jenelle. Which means their relationship will be off and on throughout the years. Though I hope not; I hope they’ll be able to have a steady relationship just like I hope Jenelle and Barb can have one as well someday.
I do not agree that things were looking up. Jenelle was doing a lot of damage control for the last 16 years of her public image. After August left I think she spiraled. And stopped working so hard to “fool” us all.
I’m wondering since Jace has to complete Anger Management classes, did someone like Jenelle or her old landlord press charges for Jace destroying the rental house? The one she moved from and spent hours & hours cleaning the carpets?
I’m glad to hear Jace is doing better. It’s such an odd concept to block your kids. Wtf! But Jenelle is “a good mom”…🙄
It’s probably best for Jace not to have her toxicity, substance abuse, and constant lying around him.
The problem here is that Jenelle is the adult. It may be true that Jace struggles and that we don’t have the full picture or know what goes on behind closed doors. But what we DO know, for certain, without question, is that she cares more for her public image than she does for her child. I understand, GENERALLY speaking, how it can be hard to see articles and comments judging a situation where there are multiple sides. I’m not even a parent, but even I know parenting requires sacrifice. Which is why I know, beyond all doubt, that Jenelle should have shut her fucking mouth every single damn time for the past 16 years and declined to comment publicly. That’s the definition of love. Taking it because Jace is a child. Jenelle is not. End of day, we see through her own actions that she cares more about defending herself than she does about her kid. Set the example. Jenelle can say whatever she wants. None of that matters because, above all else, what I see is a grown ass adult who cares more about what the world thinks than what her own kid does.
Jenelle truly is *spits* a piece of shit.
I wonder if he’s with Janelle’s sister, she said she’d be happy to take him.
I’m afraid she can and will until he is an adult.
She’s not going to give up custody and she will refuse, ignore or “forget” every signature needed.
And she will move him back to Vegas (“allow him to come home”) when it suits her.
That wheelchair comment! I cant breathe!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I just watched a live where Jenelle claims she was the golden child growing up. She was her mom’s favorite.
That would actually explain a lot. Perhaps she was “spoiled rotten” to the very literal meaning of the term. That would explain her extreme narcissism.
Probably the best case is for Jace to be in a facility that can handle his issues with Babs visiting regularly since she is no longer equipped to handle him. She’s been the only consistent presence in his life. As imperfect as Babs is, she does seem to genuinely love him and care about him. That’s more than can be said about the POS that birthed him.
I seriously doubt that Jace needs to be in a facility. I do NOT believe anything Jenelle has said about Jace and his health. Hopefully now that he’s away from her, he will do better. I can imagine how chaotic and awful it was to be in her house and I don’t blame Jace for acting out after everything she put him through.
When she called 911 because Jace was smashing and destroying things, according to her, you can hear him in the background saying he didn’t.
I wonder what the truth is.
It’s not like she never lied before. Could it be that she was trying to get him into juvie so the government paid for his treatment?
But Babs could no longer handle him and who else is there?
I hope he sees that staying in North Carolina is a privilege and thrives so that he is never in Jenelle’s clutches again . I hope this for kaiser as well
And hopefully, while in NC, he will be able to get some counseling to help him cope with all that he has been through, with all the adults in his life. I hope it’s a good experience for him and that he lives a wonderful and happy life. He sure does deserve it.
Happy for Jace. Jenelle only wanted custody of him to spite Babs. It’s clear she doesn’t want to be a mom at all. Jace’s tell All is going to be EPIC!
Oh yes, I feel the same way. Jenelle wanted custody of Jace to spite Barb. She wanted to ‘win’ and she wanted Barb to ‘lose.’ It was a game to her. Now, about a tell-all book from Jace? If he writes one, I will definitely pre-order bc those will sell out quickly! He could make a great deal of money with a tell-all, that’s for sure. 🤗😊
I hope Jace knows that while his egg donor may not ever show love and acceptance to him, there are thousands of total strangers on the internet who have followed his life, know his struggles, and would help in a heartbeat if he asked. My wish for Jace is that he settles in where he is, gets back into school and thrives at life despite the piece of shit that birthed him. She never wanted him & never loved him, the same way she never loved Kaiser and only wanted him to attach herself to Nathan. I hope Kaiser realizes that if he starts posting revealing stuff about his home life with that drunken addict of a mother of his, she’s going to ship him off to Doris quicker than lightning just to save what she thinks is her stellar reputation. DO IT KAISER!! Get yourself out of that house ASAP and let Jenelle just wallow in her booze, drugs, and hypochondria.
Guess she’s gonna find out the hard way. The more she talks about this, the worse it will be for her.
Then she blames the trauma *her* choices inflicted on her son as some sort of moral failing on HIS part? As though children are responsible for the adults abusing him.
I wish nothing but the best for that kid, well almost young man.
You can do this Jace. Just hope he stays away from the alcohol given the way his parents behave. Not his fault but I hope he can learn not to repeat their addictions given the genetic component.
Also, thanks to The Ashley for covering this. Especially if the coverage helped get him free, which would not surprise me one bit.
Abuser *really* hate being closed by their punching bags. Like how dare the victim not agree the abuser if right about everything, and who gave them permission to talk.
That goes both ways.
If Jace lied about lurch there would have
A)been sufficient evidence to charge him
B)sufficient evide6to upgrade said charges 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Remember when Jenelle made Babs cry because she and Keeffer were shitting on her to her to her face for working at Walmart and then she went with David to harass her in a parking lot for drinking wine with dinner?
Anyway, maybe I do believe in Karma.
Working any job isn’t something to be ashamed of. People are so $&#% &*#@%*&#*
A person who thinks working at Walmart is embarrassing but brags about being on OF, has very serious issues within.
Truth 🙌
I’ll never forget Jace’s sweet little voice when as a TODDLER he was consoling Janelle who was crying about (I believe) some stupid boyfriend not coming to help set up for a party 🥺🥺🥺. It’s been forever since I watched it but I believe he was saying something like “mommy I’m here, I’ll help you”.
It’s such a tragic series of events and I truly hope he finds healing cause that poor boy has been through the ringer
It was Nathan & it was Kaisers baby shower. I just saw a clip of it on Reddit the other day.
Jace was always so sweet and all he wanted was for his mother to love him. His damage is without a single doubt, all Jenelle. If Barb had been left alone to raise him without Jenelle around, I can guarantee he would have a whole different story. Jenelle is the problem.
Awe, he was such a sweet little boy. I don’t have sons, but I have friends who do, and the boys really do love & take care of their mommas. There’s a special bond between them. I feel bad that this wasn’t nurtured or appreciated, in Jace. It’s sad that he wasn’t given this in return. I want all the best and good things for Jace.
I think back to the scene where Janelle was crying over Nathan’s sorry ass in the car and Jace is in the back seat singing Rainbow Connection. Fast forward several years later and a drunk Janelle is handing the keys to an unlicensed Jace so she could go see another loser boyfriend (Daniel) she was crying over. She was Twatzilla then and Twatzilla now. Loser boyfriends first, kids last. Partying, OF and abusing substances in between.
Twatzilla is a nice one. Twatwaffle is getting a bit stall at this point…
Barb was bad, we all saw it. But worse than DeluJanelle?? Not a chance, in my opinion. We all have seen her actions since she was 16! She seems to forget that on a regular basis…and the internet is forever.
Jace, my man…write a tell all. You’ll blow Mommy Dearest’s 1.5M from OF out of the water!!
Doesn’t seem like Babs ever chose atrocious, abusive, horrible men over her children. Then took the man’s side when he abused the children. Babs certainly has her flaws, but she’s not nearly as bad as Janelle.
Yep. Not playing Yahtzee with you because she’s likely tired from working, running a house and raising 3 kids is NOT worse than egging on your soulmate of the month while he torments your toddler 🙄 Geez Jenelle
But her sister practiced witchcraft and was never stopped.
I even heard Babs would tell her no sometimes or would try to correct JE’s behaviour. How dare she.
She would also get mad when Jenelle mistreated animals. Her and Tori were talking about how Jenelle flung a “stupid cat” into a lamp as a teen. It annoyed her.
Barb has without a doubt made plenty of mistakes. As we all have. Given the state of her children, it’s clear there’s generational trauma and abuse. But that doesn’t mean someone can’t grow up and change and do better when they have a grandchild to raise. And I believe she was a good mother to jace. She loves him so much and took good care of him. Jenelle made it pure hell for both Barb and Jace, like Jenelle does on absolutely anyone that comes into the life.
Into *her life.
I literally saw Jenelle go on some one SM & had them prank call her mom. This was not that long ago either.
This kid has been THROUGH IT. It’s not good for Jace to get into the Internet cross hairs, but I totally appreciate that he wants people to know the truth. I would want to feel heard, too. We watched his mother lie repeatedly and we’ve seen how she’s treated that kid. There’s not an ounce of remorse or accountability in that woman. She would sacrifice anyone and everyone for her own wants and she’s made that clear. Good luck, Jace. Listen to those who truly love you and focus on getting better.
Good for Jace. I’m glad he’s in a safe place away from Jenelle. I hope he continues to release the truth. She can’t hurt you anymore, Jace.