Jace Evans has been volleyballed across the country for months, but the Teen Mom kid is finally back home: in North Carolina and with his grandma Barbara Evans.
Although The Ashley had refrained from revealing that Jace was back with Barb, The Sun broke the news on Wednesday and The Ashley can confirm it’s true. As The Ashley told you, Jace was sent to North Carolina the same night that he publicly leaked text messages between him and his mom that showed Jenelle in a very unflattering light.
The Ashley’s source confirmed that Jace went “straight to Barbara’s” after he touched down in the Tar Heel State and has been there ever since.
The Ashley’s source also confirmed that Barbara (as well as other family members) are doing everything they can to make Jace’s living arrangement permanent.
“There was a court date earlier this week that Barbara attended,” The Ashley’s source confirms. “Jenelle was also on the call and was not happy about the judge allowing Jace to live with Barbara. She made it clear she didn’t want him to come back to Vegas, but she didn’t want him living with Barbara and was pushing for [Jace to go to] a facility of some kind. The judge did not agree with Jenelle and OK’d Jace living with his grandma. If all continues to go well, the judge will allow Jace to decide where he wants to live, once he’s off probation.”
The Ashley can confirm The Sun‘s report that Jace is doing online high school.
“He does not have any plans at this time to go back to in-person high school,” the source said. “Barbara is fine with his doing school online.”
Jenelle made it known that she is not happy with Barbara.
“My mom is the biggest manipulator I’ve ever met in my life,” she wrote on Facebook and X on Wednesday.
The comments did not garner the fired ‘Teen Mom’ star much support on either social media platform, with many people pointing out the similarities Jenelle has to her “manipulative” mother.
“You’re the same person,” one person wrote in the comment section.
“Takes one to know one!” another person commented.
Last Friday, Jace returned to social media to express his happiness about being back in North Carolina. He also slammed Jenelle on Instagram Stories and revealed that she has allegedly blocked him.
“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. “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.”
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Poor Jace, I hope he finally finds some peace, love and happiness
Imagine being angry because family is willing to look after your child but you would rather they were in a group home…she’s probably mad because she will have a financial obligation
I’m glad his back with Barbara, she was his constant in his life.
He had therapy and medication when he was at Barbara’s and getting the help he needed.
Soon as Janelle got Jace she stopped all that and said Barbara was making it all up, but as soon as Janelle was having problems with Jace suddenly he had all these illnesses again.
I believe Janelle lied to Jace about his illness and his grandma when she got him, I believe she turned Jace against Barbara and made Jace feel like Barbara abandoned him.
And now Jace see’s Janelle for the bulls**ting piece of manipulative s**t she really is.
I’m glad he’s back with the family that’s always been there for him.
Janelle only used Jace to stay on the show.
And to all the people that believe anything that comes out of janelles mouth is either easy to be manipulated or just another Janelle.
Keep your head up Jace. Everyone with any decency is rooting for you.
Imagine… putting your childs best interest aside because you’d rather “punish” your mother that you have beef with, and are more concerned about it looking like Babs “won” here, when she raised YOUR child she had no business raising, Jenelle! She is such a POS… That kid has been through enough. Now, I am not saying Barbara is some stellar parent but she is the best option at this point- and I think Peetie said it very well- she was a stressed, overwhelmed, older lady. As far as life normally goes for most, grandparents aren’t raising children when their own parent(s) are alive and well- just insanely unstable, irresponsible and selfish. Perhaps, and I am being an extreme optimist here, but maybe now Jace has seen that at least Babs loves him and wants what’s best for him. Maybe now that he’s lived with the demon that is Jenelle, he can appreciate Babs and his life with her. I certainly do not think a facility would be any better…
If anyone needs a facility, it would be her. Barb won’t always be there for the other kids if god forbid she would pass away. Girl you need to take parenting classes.
She did take parenting classes – FIVE times – and bragged about taking them as if her doing so was something to proud of because the fact that she took them them made her a better parent than most people. Honey, having to take COURT-ORDERED parenting classes is NOT the brag that your sorry, delusional self thinks it is. Neither is winning the prize for being “the best damn mom” ever that Amber repeatedly claims she is. Jenelle has beaten Amber in this case over and over (and over) again, which is both sad and an amazing thing to have accomplished. I definitely didn’t expect to be saying anything like this about Amber. Ever! Maybe I need to go to a child psychiatrist, too. 😉
Jenelle could have put him in a facility when he was in her custody, but chose. It too. Now that he is with Barb, the facility is a good idea?? It’s just like when Kaiser was with Doris. Jenelle doesn’t want her children, but she doesn’t want people to know that. If she could get away with the public not knowing that she dumped her kids, she would do it in a heartbeat.
Even worse, she wants the STATE to put him in a facility and pay for it. Her precious OF money is for men and alcohol, not her son
Shitty people, raising shitty people, makes more shitty people.
Generational Trauma is real!
And people can escape it and not pass it down, but it takes therapy and work.
I’m glad Jace is back with Barb. I hope he simmers down so he can stay there . It seems like a much better place for him to be . I hope kaiser and ensley get the same chance for peace
No. Babs said that never happened. He just ran a toy car back and forward over a carpet and there was some smoldering. He didn’t do that on purpose, he was just playing. Jenelle turned it into a big thing, making it sound much worse to put Babs in a bad light.
What type of parent puts their personal feud with their parent over the welfare of their child?! At least the judge saw thru the ruse and shut it down. Hopefully, this young man will get the help he needs to have some peace and calm in his life.
100% ON CHARACTER for Jenelle to actually try taking jace out of barbs home and put him into a facility instead. It’s never been about Jace for her. It’s ONLY ever been about “winning” against her mother. Barb is the only one who ever lover Jace and I hope the hell he has experienced in Jenelle’s care will make him appreciate his real mother and not do anything to jeopardize his chance to stay with her permanently.
Says a lot when the kid was in Vegas and basically left to his own devices to whatever. And he chose to go back and live with his Grandmother.
Didn’t all of this start at Barbara’s? Jace started a fire inside her house, ran away a couple of times and who knows what else. Barbara literally said she couldn’t handle him anymore and gave custody back to Jenelle. Jace really does belong in a treatment center, it’s the safest place for him right now until his family come up with a permanent living situation for him. Otherwise he’s just going to keep running away, acting out and being bounced between homes like a beach ball. His family, both sides, need to sit down and talk about it together like mature adults. Which they can do in a meeting room with a lawyer or another witness/mediator.
No, all of this started when Jenelle decided she wanted to be a part-time parent to Jace and started coming back around in his life. While he’s always had some issues, they were minor and being dealt with for years before Jenelle created the shitshow we see today. Had she remained largely (if not entirely) absent from his life, the way she should have always been, Jace’s issues would not be anything near what they became (and what he’s trying to overcome). Jenelle is the common denominator in all of his issues. She wanted to drag him from home to home, but only when it was convenient to pretend she was mommy of the year and “care about all of her children equally”. His behavioral issues are primarily due to Jenelle treating him like a possession she can play with anytime she wants, but would prefer someone else take care of him. He started really acting up when Jenelle demanded more visitation with him.
Also, stop with the “he started a fire in her house”, because it really wasn’t that and wasn’t even intentional nor was it an actual fire. Barb has said this countless times to try and dispel the stupid rumor, started by Jenelle btw, but you dumbasses can’t let go of it, lol. He had plenty of other behavioral issues (again, all stemming from the way Jenelle treated him), I don’t know why you all hang on to this one thing so hard. MOST of his issues are with authority and not wanting to listen.
Jace needs to be in a loving environment, wherever that environment is. A facility isn’t likely the best place for him, they should *always* be a last resort and only used in cases where serious violence and the lives of others around (safety) is a concern. They aren’t this bandaid everyone seems hell bent on thinking they are. I have had to send children to them before, they aren’t some club med where all of your issues can be fixed and you’ll eventually get out and be “better”. Only a small percentage of children are truly helped, most will end up living the rest of their lives with various issues. Some will overcome with other help throughout their adult lives, but a great many never will (through no fault of their own). Jace has never actually been violent (despite Jenelle stating so, there is literally no proof, she has lied every single time). He’s never harmed anyone else, he’s never done 90% of the things Jenelle has claimed. Barb sitting down with Jenelle is a bad idea. Jenelle neither loves nor wants Jace, she’s proven that. There is no amount of mediation that will change her or how she feels about him. She cannot stand Jace and has said this before. There’s no reason for anyone to sit down with her and create some plan. She needs her parental rights terminated, period, so Jace will no longer be a pawn in her stupid games.
Both of Jace’s parents abandoned him as an infant, but sure, let’s blame the one adult in Jace’s life who loves him and is willing to step up and care for him
She only wants him locked up somewhere so there’s no possibility of her having to take responsibility for him again 🙄
I thought Barbara gave him to Janelle bc she couldn’t handle him and his behavior anymore
Didn’t he try to set her house on fire?
No. Babs said that never happened. He just ran a toy car back and forward over a carpet and there was some smoldering. He didn’t do that on purpose, he was just playing. Jenelle turned it into a big thing, making it sound much worse to put Babs in a bad light.
So???there’s kid needs a stable home with a responsible parent. He’s on probation,which could be a blessing i. His life. He sure won’t going to be handled living with Jenelle. Why should he respect? Somebody that gave up custody of him basically as soon as he was birthed???
And more then likely has watched all the early years of Teen Mom,witnessing Jenelle lack of any real interest in being his mother.
Really hoping now that Jace has seen the “other side” he will chill in Barb’s care. Wishing him success in keeping his head down, staying away from drugs, maybe getting a job, following whatever Barb sets our for rules and keeps a low profile, away from Jen. It will ultimately always be her fault but maybe if she stays away the kid can overcome the shitty start she provided him.
Good.. Jace deserves to stay with the only consistent parent he’s ever had
You think Barb is going to let him smoke weed in her house? NOPE, you know what that means, in 3. 2, 1 .
It takes a horrible human being to actively root against a CHILD. You always pick the worst side to take. 🙄
Tell some more lies Lester. You are a POS. Go do what Nancy told you to do.
Barb actually loves him not herself more. I hope it works out for him. He needs the love and support.
i get why jenelle wanted him to be in a facility so it can help him BUT she had chances to do that on her own but after spending thousands on these bum men and unnecessary traveling NOW she wants to stop spending so much money when it comes to getting her son help??? she deserves all the misery and unhappiness in the world and i pray barbara can finally get it together herself and be patient with jace and that he keeps his head up as i know these are already confusing times and i couldn’t even imagine all these changes as well with his disorders
Jenelle doesn’t want him in a facility for him to “get help”, she had months to do that and didn’t want to pay for it. She wants him in one because she doesn’t want to deal with him anymore but also doesn’t want Babs to have him since she “won” him and it looks bad if he goes back to Babs, and she also wants to punish him for leaking those texts that make her look like trash.
I highly doubt that Jenelle wants Jace to get help; she just doesn’t want Barb to “win,” or to have to pay child support. If Jenelle wanted Jace to get help, she wouldn’t have taken his medication away in the first place.
100 percent. She’s a toddler and she sees her children as possessions. She doesn’t want Jace, but she doesn’t want anyone else to have him either. And Barb? That’s her worst nightmare.
I’m hoping now that Jace has been elsewhere, he can appreciate Barb more. She isn’t perfect but she’s the best of his options, by a lot. And she truly loves him.
If she wanted so badly to help, why wasn’t he in therapy like he was with Barbara? What about his medications? Was he even on those?
Jenelle wants Jace in a facility because she sees its as a competition between her and her mom and Barbara having Jace means Jenelle has lost. It’s never been about what’s best for Jace for her.
IKR? DeluJanelle talks about wanting to get Jace mental health treatment but it’s too expensive, and then she’s bragging about the 1.5M she’s made on her OF. WTF??
Barb isn’t exactly the most stable person but despite her own inadequacies as a parent, I do think she has his mental health up there on her list of priorities- something his mother never had. Hopefully his making the decision to do home school gives him a sense that he at least has a little bit of control over what happens in his life. It could be worse…he could be back in Vegas! DeluJanelle is probably mad that Barb has custody again because it means Barb makes the rules regarding him. She knows Jase will get the medication he needs instead of just given weed to solve his problems. Then there’s the fact that she lost her free babysitter. Hopefully he continues to spill the tea…!!
Chances are a facility won’t help him. Did facilities like provo help teens??🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I want to post something positive for Jace and I hope this works out for him but I just don’t see it happening. Seeing how Barb was on the show, constantly screaming, fighting, completely unable to control or parent teenage Janelle ( who turned out terrific, NOT). Barb not getting any younger, and failed or couldn’t keep Jace in check the last several times he stayed with her, how is this time going to be any different? I’m sure this is the best situation for Jace with what he has but that ain’t saying much.
have to agree with this and ik people HATE to admit barb is just as bad as jenelle but where do they think jenelle learned this type of behavior from?
Barbara never let her huzzbin abuse Jace.
Is she married now?
no but barbara did send her son colin to a group home after he started a fire inside her house and jace did the same thing as well as starting to run away when he was still living there and that’s the only reason why barb gave jenelle custody of him which jenelle is also already trying to put him in a facility instead of being patient and dealing with it like barbara should’ve, jenelle is still a pos but it doesn’t take away that barb wasn’t the best either
Well said, tell Lester that.
Colin suffers from schizophrenia and keeping him in the home was a danger to Barb and the other two kids there. It’s not like he was a brat and Barb sent him away. He is seriously mentally ill. Jace did NOT start a fire at Barb’s house. He kept running an RC car over carpet and the battery overheated which caused some scorching. Jenelle is the one that started the lie that Jace tried to burn Barb’s house down. Jenelle also told Jace he didn’t need the therapy Barb had him in for years and she also told him he didn’t need the meds a medical doctor prescribed that helped him tremendously. Jenelle told him if he’d come live with her, he could just smoke pot and that would be all he needed for his mental health. What teenage boy wouldn’t jump at the chance to live somewhere where he could smoke pot to his heart’s content? Once Jace figured out that living with his egg donor wasn’t what he thought it would be, he repeatedly ran away.
It’s not Barb’s fault that one of her children suffers from schizophrenia and another suffers from severe bipolar disorder. Jenelle figured out very early on that her mom had her hands full trying to keep a roof over their heads while dealing with two mentally ill children and used that to her advantage. She did whatever the hell she wanted and attacked Barb whenever she tried to discipline her. Yeah, Barb yelled. If I had to live with Jenelle, I’d yell, too. If you go back and watch early episodes, Jenelle is ALWAYS the one that starts yelling and screaming whenever Barb tries to talk to her about something. In a perfect world, Barb would have walked away instead of engaging with the self centered brat. But, after continually being screamed at and physically abused by her daughter, she lashed right back at her.
Nor has Babs waved a gun at a driver that cut her off with Jace in the car.
Exactly! Criticizing Barb is not defending Janelle, and it doesn’t mean we don’t want the best for Jace.
I will never understand how anyone could watch the show and not clearly see the cycle of family abuse. Barb loves Jace, so does Janelle but neither of them are capable parents, it takes more than love to raise a child.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say that Jenelle loves Jace. Jenelle loves the *paycheck* that Jace has brought her over the years, but that’s IT. She stopped even trying to pretend that she loved Jace once the money from MTV stopped rolling in and she was no longer able to force Jace to sit through truly laughable “heartfelt” conversations where she made so-called apologies to him for the past and told him that “she’s trying” to be better (or whatever the exact words were that she used while she was secretly hoping to god that everyone watching the show had been living under a rock and not seen her cruelty towards her own son from the second he was born). And, I’m sorry, but I refuse to believe that Jace actually has all of the mental disorders that she has had doctors diagnose him with. The kid has been traumatized by her and made to feel like a worthless mistake from the moment he was born and that fact alone is going to make most people in that situation act out. The fact that Jace has acted out by starting fires and running away *is* disturbing, but those problems are more likely to be the result of anger stemming from the “parenting” he has gotten his whole life from his so-called mother than they do from whatever disorder she could get him diagnosed with that week in order to steal his medication and use the “mental problems” she claims he has been diagnosed with to negate ANY possibility that SHE might actually be the real reason for his actions (instead of the current mental disorder she says is the real reason for them). For a long time now, I have been worried that I will see an article saying that Jace has either attempted to hurt himself or that has succeeded in doing so and that his death was the result of suicide so I definitely give that kid a lot of credit for not going that route when his mother has done nothing but push him down a dangerous path like this one. I guess those FIVE parenting classes she bragged about being forced to attend must have paid off. *said dripping with sarcasm* No child should be treated the way that Jace has been and what’s truly scary is that Jenelle’s actions are starting to make Amber and her couch look like a responsible parent. I think we can all agree that the fact that Jenelle’s treatment of her son has brought us to this point is horrifying. Hell, even Amber’s disturbing couch puppet family would probably agree with this sentiment and their brains are literally made of plastic and/or wood.
Jennelle is a pos, and no child deserved her as a mother.
I don’t think anyone thinks Barb is perfect. She raised Jenelle and Jenelle’s pretty terrible. But despite barbs past, there is a huge difference in the behavior we’ve seen her exhibit. She was a stressed, overwhelmed elderly lady who was raising her grandson and also dealing with the pile of shit that was Jenelle. Given that Barb clearly has had a hard life of her own, expecting her to be some sunshine farting, cookie baking granny is only showing stupidity on the parts of those who would act like she should be. She was one thousand times a better mother to Jace than Jenelle would ever even pretend to be. And she was also trying so hard to help Jenelle. But Jenelle cannot be helped. She is a deep dark pit of despair and any light makes her skin melt.
Stupidity is setting the parenting bar so low for Barb that Jace will never get the help he needs. Barb was awful on the show, just more stable than Janelle. Barb knew David and Janelle were abusing the kids and still sent Jace to live with them on the land. Stupidity is thinking that this time will be different at Barbs given Jace’s history with constantly running away. Why don’t people on this site want Jace to get actual help? Why do so many people think it’s okay for him to stay with the lowest common denominator abuser in the family? It’s sad!!
Perhaps wisen up before you continue to talk about things like this. It would be much better than looking foolish.
Explain what was wrong with what I said, since you know so much, coward!
Where did Jenelle learn to abandon her children? It certainly wasn’t from the parent that has always been there for her. People really act like Barb reproduced asexually to spawn Jenelle.
I get what you are saying, the minute Barb tells him no or puts rules on him he’s out of there.
Anita is Rasputia Latimore’s online alias.
The reality is though that Barbara (love her or hate her) is the most stable force in Jace’s life and provided for him when his mother and father weren’t willing to do it.
No doubt Jace and Babs will butt heads but considering the alternative for Jace…
I’m happy for Jace, he just wanted to go back home. He never wanted to live with Jenelle
This new arrangement with Barbara will last probably less than 3 months. It’s sad to see how fast Jace was forced to grow up.
I give it three weeks!
She is such a piece of dog shit. She would rather Jace be institutionalized in some facility instead of with someone who loves him. Damn I hate this bitch.
Yep. She doesn’t care about Jace, at all. She’s just pissed because he’s with Barb and to her, that means she lost the competition. It’s always been about sticking it to Barb and Jace was never considered. I’m hoping now that Jace has lived with his egg donor, he’ll appreciate how much Barb loves him and has always had his best interests at heart.
Shouldn’t Jenelle be paying child support then? She makes enough money apparently
YES!
I feel like Barbara is the best option for him at this time. I hope he’s happy and thrives. Barb will be raising POS’s kids until she’s 90.
Exactly! Doris will have Kaiser in no time, with any luck. And poor Ensley won’t be going anywhere, .