It’s been a little over two weeks since Jenelle Evans‘ son Jace was sent to North Carolina to (once again) live with Jenelle’s mom Barbara and, over the weekend, the fired Teen Mom star gave her Twitch followers an update on how the 16-year-old has been faring while living at Casa de Barb.
As The Ashley previously 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. After posting that Jenelle was “unstable” and showing fans texts that Jenelle had sent him telling him “F**K YOU!” (among other things), Jace got his wish to leave Jenelle’s Las Vegas home and go live with Barbara in North Carolina. He later resurfaced to let fans on Instagram know that Jenelle was “mad” that he had exposed her.
During her weekend livestream on Twitch, Jenelle was asked for an update on Jace and her mom (whom she is currently estranged from). Jenelle made it clear that she is relishing in the fact that life isn’t exactly easy for Jace right now.
“How’s my mom? My mom’s doing good. She’s in North Carolina, she’s hanging in there with Jace,” Jenelle said, before starting to cackle.
“I laugh because, it’s like y’all don’t even know!” she said gleefully. “People think it’s me and it’s not me! It’s not me!”
Jenelle is, of course, referring to the issues Jace has had over the last few years, particularly since she regained custody of him when he was 14. She has defended her parenting of the now-16-year-old and stated that it was Jace’s mental health issues— and not her questionable parenting decisions— that caused the rift between her and Jace.
During her Twitch livestream, Jenelle seemed to be getting some joy out of the fact that her son was being forced to endure Barbara’s yelling.
“I grew up with all that yelling and screaming in my house. So did everyone else that grew up with me,” Jenelle stated.
“…and um, Jace is going through it,” Jenelle said while snickering.
After Jace was back in North Carolina, Jenelle slammed Barbara online.
“My mom is the biggest manipulator I’ve ever met in my life,” she wrote on social media.
As The Ashley told you last month, there was a court hearing in late August that Barbara and Jenelle attended virtually regarding Jace.
“[Jenelle] 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 Ashley’s source told her. “The judge did not agree with Jenelle and OK’d Jace living with his grandma.”
As ‘Teen Mom’ fans are aware, Barbara raised Jace from the time he was a baby until he was 14.
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In 2023, Barb signed custody back over to Jenelle because she was unable to handle Jace’s behavior, and things did not go well. Jace frequently ran away and got in trouble while under Jenelle’s care. After Jenelle split with her husband David Eason in early 2024, Jace moved with her (and his half-siblings Kaiser and Ensley) to Las Vegas, where he continued to clash with Jenelle.
In October 2024, Jace was temporarily removed from Jenelle’s home after she called the police on him for running away and trashing her home after a fight. In April, Jenelle called the police on Jace again and accused the teen of “smashing everything” in her home. A month later, Jenelle shipped Jace off to Florida, where his father, Andrew Lewis, was living. That arrangement only lasted a few weeks, though, and Jace returned to Vegas to live with Jenelle.
You can watch a clip of Jenelle gloating about Jace having to endure Barbara’s yelling below.
Imagine laughing about your child’s struggles
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Janelle grow the f**k up
You’re acting like a child, smirking and cackling at the thought of someone being screamed at.
That’s the kind of thing a school yard bully would do.
Hmmmm a bully yep that one word that sums you up, others would be scum, drama trash, failure, liar, bad mother ( right gonna stop there as I could be going at this for hours)
Your mum had Jace 14 years
You didn’t even have a year with him before it was kicking off and you was calling him all names on social media cause he dare tell the police about the abuse your then husband put him through.
Oh and don’t forget the abuse you put him through by taking him off his meds and away from therapy cause in your words nothing was wrong with him it was all bs that your mum made up ( now your saying Jace actually does have these mental health problems)
Janelle you tell so many lies that you can’t even keep up with them.
Think about that for a second Janelle, if what you said is true. He would rather live with a yelling manipulator than you. Anywhere but with you, his mother. Think about that for a bit. You are the common denominator of what is going wrong.
He lived with Barb his whole life, had issues and ran away from her. She signed him back to Jenelle, now she’s taking him back? Wasn’t there a time where he set something on fire at Barbs too? Seems like he’s crying for help and couldn’t even stick it out with his dad in Florida.
Well he probably couldn’t “Stick it out” because Andrew was still drinking and being the POS “father” AKA sperm donor that he’s been for Jace’s entire life, so…
Both of his parents abandoned him. Barbs is the only adult who has ever cared for him. Jenelle shipped him off to his dad without even seeing where he would be living or anything. Just gave him a one-way ticket.
The satisfaction of leaving a snarky comment in response to this behavior and outright arrogance could never come close to surpassing the anger I feel.
Tell me you’re not only still the same POS mother, but worse, as you were when you gave him up as a baby, without telling us you are. Girl, you didn’t even get custody back until he was 4 years away from being an adult and you lost custody… AGAIN. You think that the issues he has ARE NOT from you at least partially? You think Jace isn’t acting the way he is (partially) because you legit abandoned him at birth to go party? Laughing at your son and his issues and at your mother who at least has Jace’s best interest in mind… SMH. Yes, maybe Barbara isn’t THE best parent but at this point she is the best person he could be with at this time and at least she is capable of loving her grandson. Absolutely better than you, Jenelle. I highly doubt Jenelle even knows what is going on at all in NC as if they were smart, Jace and Barbara have her blocked and are not communicating with her. “My mom is the biggest manipulator I’ve ever met in my life”… takes one to know one, Jenelle. Do Jace a favor and let Barbara continue raising him the next two years and stay away from him.
Jenelle,Keep Jace out of your mouth!
Using him for your own monetary gain.
A Mother protects they’re child.
Well since Jenelle said he’s having issues and “going through it” I can only assume that it’s actually the opposite. I’m guessing that its just taking some time for him to readjust and she’s blowing it out of proportion because he’s doing better there than he was with her and she can’t have that. But no matter situation, her laughing at his struggles is absolutely disgusting even for her. I wouldn’t wish that shtt on anyone and I would be in tears if it were my child .
Jace is barely her inconvenient younger half-sibling relationship wise. As always, Jenelle misses the fucking mark hard and makes herself look beyond TERRIBLE while trying to defend herself or make a point. I mean she IS terrible but she is even more terrible at hiding it! The claims of “iTs nOt Me gUyz!” as if Jace’s whole entire life and personally wasn’t’/isn’t directly shaped by Jenelle’s every decision and action! She is so detached she can laugh at her kids pain because she thinks it proves her right? Jenelle is truly missing a fundamental link. She is simply irredeemable atp
She has no idea how Jace is doing with Barb. And, she doesn’t even care if he’s doing ok. Well, actually, she is probably rooting for him to fail because then she can say Barb and Jace are the problem. For all of Barb’s issues, at least she actually wants the kid to thrive.
This clown couldn’t even maintain custody of Jace for two consecutive years of his 16 years. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.
I’ll never forget her still having an expanded uterus tummy after giving birth to that poor baby…..and going out to party with her friends. She left a days old baby home with her mom so she could go drinking and get high.
She left him all the time. Any free time she had, she was chasing losers, partying, or getting into trouble. Then she would scream and cry and curse at Barb because her life was “so stressful”. This is a person who put a Kesha concert before her legal obligations and went to jail how many times?
She should have given Jace up for adoption. Barb didn’t want to become a mother again at 57 and Jenelle clearly had better things to do than take care of her baby, while constantly playing the victim.
This is a new low and new level of delusion, even by Jenelle standards. A parent gloating about their teenager’s mental health issues “not being her fault.” I can’t. This is incredibly sad. I hope that boy feels the whole world sending him love.
I hope Babs got custody and is able to make medical decisions. Jenelle has been gloating about not giving permission for Jace to receive the medication he needs. Not for a depression after the worst assault he suffered from David and ran away for his safety and life. She thought that was funny too.
Also not his ADHD meds that he wanted to start again. She took those away and gave him weed when he was still home.
She did everything to make his life harder and I have no doubt she’s now doing everything she can to make his and her moms life as hard as possible.
First of all never let Jenelle in the house, she will do just like she did when Jace was 1 ,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9 , come in yelling , making chaos. Don’t let her in the house . Tell her she is not welcome and to leave if she shows up, if she comes a second time press criminal charges of harassment , and keep doing it. Enough of her , MTV caused all this giving her money. Should have never give these girls money and I hope Jace sues the hell out of MTV . Enablers. We all watched MTV talk to the cops when she child endangered Jace following a man how and pulling a gun on him.
You can hear it in her responses! She is glad he is “going through it” with Barb, if that is even really the case. She is so disgusting she is absolutely the type to want others, her child especially, to suffer because she did. She has been horrible for years & always manages to make herself look worse with her explanations but this whole “response” about your CHILDS medical/mental issues is wild to start with, then the content of the response is SO on brand for Jenelle. Hateful, sadistic, truly missing a fundamental link to being a human. B*TCH! We watched you gaslight this kid on television! YOU ARE THE PROBLEEMMM!!! every time, for all of eternity!
Almost everyday I have some sort of moment where I feel like a piece of crap mom and thought I should have handled that better, why can’t I be more patient or calm. Then I see articles and stories about Janelle and her mess of a life she is making with her kids and I think I am not that bad. But will try better either way.
Parenting is hard. For sure Barbara wasn’t a model parent but at least she still seems present or tries to be. I hope to think jace is reading these articles and comments and know that the people who watched teen mom is against Janelle and how she has been as a mom. Everyone has a chance at a better outcome, including jace, including Janelle.
I promise you, if that’s true, your kids just want you to be honest with them and to see you doing things differently. You don’t have to be perfect. Do whatever you have to in order to work on your own stuff. Show your kids everyone is human and everyone can work to be better. It’s a fantastic lesson to see modeled. I sure wish I’d seen my parents do that.
You are levels above Duhnelle just because you are reflecting and asking yourself how to be better. You sound like you are present and trying to be authentic. Don’t be too hard on yourself.
I think we all fail at parenting sometimes. I know I do because patience isn’t my strong suit, but I try every day to be better. When I’m wrong, I apoligize to my kids. I show up for almost every game they have(have to miss some as I have 3 kids so I rotate whose games I go to between my husband & myself.) I tuck them every night & tell them I love them multiple times a day. They know that I will always be there for them,
My GOD I want Jace to thrive even if just to spite his mother!!! If I was Jace I would dedicate my whole world to becoming highest educated…..most evolved…..empathetic/loving/caring man in the world even if just to spite Jenelle! He is a GREAT kid and you know she WANTS him to fail to tell him “I knew it” and to tell her mom “I told you so” etc etc. I hope Jace realizes how lucky he is to be out from under that woman…..and see HOW many fans are literally rooting for him to succeed! I want him to get some good therapy…..stay away from his mom….find humor and laughter in the chaos…..realize how loved he is by strangers!!!….finish high school or get GED and then get a FANTASTIC job he would love! He would be great at social work…..childhood psychologist….teaching adolescents…..being a lawyer that protects children…..ANY of those things!!! I hope he uses his anger at having shitty parents as fuel and absolutely destroys it in life! There is no better motivator than what that beautiful boy has right now to succeed!!!
To assume your kid went from one toxic environment to another and then laugh about it? What an awful person she is. Once again, she doesn’t love that kid. She loves winning. Babs was nowhere near perfect but if she was that bad to live with, Delujenelle could’ve gotten her life together to remove herself and her son from the home. But nope, she didn’t even try. Partying and being a teenager mattered more. Kieffer mattered more.
I’m also so sick of hearing “you guys don’t even know the half of it, blah blah blah”. You clearly don’t care about your son’s privacy, so let’s hear it, you toxic dumb bitch.
And I don’t want to hear about Jace’s mental health. Because who’s the one that took him off medication as soon as she regained primary custody? His “mom”. I don’t want to think about how many times that has hapened on and off. 😔
Didn’t Jace say on Instagram he didn’t want Jenelle to talk about him on social media? But of course she would ignore that, if he did. Still don’t think she should talk about him either way though and just say “no comment” when asked. I just hope he’s getting the help and treatment he needs.
Get a criminal order and enforce it.
That was my first thought when I saw this malignant narcissist LAUGHING at his issues. She is unfit to be a mom. I pray for the other two. Nathan’s son needs to go to his grandma pronto so the JenelleDamage can begin to be undone.
She is a monster.
Just because your child leaves your house and is still broken, doesn’t mean it wasn’t you. The mother wound doesn’t just up and disappear cause your mom leaves the room. That boy will be scarred for the rest of his life because of Jenelle. Jesus is his only hope.
Barb is a yeller, but at least she actually loves Jace and wants to see him succeed. She’s fought to get him help for years.
Jenelle doesn’t unconditionally love any of her kids and won’t do anything to help them succeed.
Sadly, Jenelle doesn’t even conditionally love any of her kids, much less unconditionally. She simply doesn’t love any of them, at all, ever, and she never has. The only person Jenelle loves is Jenelle.
And whatever soul mate of the month.
She is absolutely missing a link. That’s why it seems like she is always cosplaying a human. I think she mimics emotions- Beyond herself she cannot empathize or view things from anyone else’s perspective, including her children. I don’t think she is able AND even if she could, she doesn’t care enough to bother. Not many people qualify but she sure seems irredeemable, at least as a parent.
She just doesn’t realize how trashy she is.
Right.. the fact you threw him away the moment he shot out your coaching has absolutely nothing to do with his issues 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
When you think Jenelle couldn’t possibly be a bigger POS then she goes and proves as wrong. I think she’s even worse than Amber at this point. She’s plain evil
No bitch it isn’t you at all 😒 the fact that you weren’t there for him EVER hasn’t had ANY impact on him. There’s a special little corner in hell for you.
What kind of mother, or any parent for that matter, goes on a live social media account to cackle and fake laugh about their sons issues. Jace is 16 yrs old. She has sunk to a whole new low in my opinion.
She should be buying him a car right now like the other parents are doing for their TM kids.
Poor kid.
IMO, Barb is definitely the lesser of 2 evils as far as having custody of Jace. All 3 of those kids are going to have massive relationship problems in life. The boys have learned by example that it’s ok to be violent. Ensley has learned that it’s normal to jump from man to man. All 3 of them have learned that damn near everything and everyone comes before them where DeluJanelle is concerned.
I think Jace absolutely should have been placed in adoption at birth. Jenelle didn’t want him. Still doesn’t. His “dad” is a POS. Barbara screams like a raving lunatic.
I like how Jenelle claims Barbara is the “biggest manipulator.” Jenelle, how many fucking loser bums have you married/dated?
I do think Barbara had/has the best of intentions and she adores Jace, but she’s damaging him. You cannot scream at kids like that.
I wish someone would provide some therapy to Barb so she can deal with whatever childhood trauma she has that makes her think that yelling is the solution. Barb clearly wants the best for her kids, she’s given Jenelle so many chances and opportunities, she saved up to leave her abusive ex who is the father of the kids, worked to get her 3 mentally ill kids and her grandson the care they need, worked a job while trying to keep the kids in activities all without parent support. She is clearly trying to learn, I just wish some one would teach her a different way because I think she would listen.
Now I would hope the same for Jenelle as she clearly has abandonment issues from her alcoholic abusive father and Barb not having the time for her while trying to raise all the kids and not having the patience or skills to do it without yelling. Unfortunately that’s not going to happen because Jenelle doesn’t think she needs any help and she doesn’t have unconditional love for her kids, nor care to heal. She doesn’t seem to have the skills to parent either. I mean, unlike Barb, Jenelle doesn’t have to be out of the house most of the day for her job, she isn’t living pay check to pay check trying to make ends meet and yet her kids have an even worse childhood than she did. By all information I can find, Barb attempted to break the cycle (sometimes one step by each generation improves it. The only improvement Jenelle made is having money) while Jenelle somehow made it worse.
I absolutely agree with you. I’m positive all Barb knows is screaming because of generational trauma. In my opinion and I’m no DR. I believe Jenelle does have BPD. I have BPD and some other serious mental illnesses. I used to be a lot like Jenelle. My family is unbelievably unstable and the stuff that’s gone on is something I don’t even know how to describe. I did break the cycle with my kids though and sought help. It’s really hard for people to see that they are not mentally well, but she has no grasp on what’s going on and the horrible things she’s doing/has done. There are moments of clarity for most people where they know they’ve done horrible things to the people around them. I don’t know if she’s just in that much denial. It’s bizarre.
She kept him simply to spite Barb, really.
What a disgusting, vile beast. “Jace is going through it, hahahah”. Yes it’s so hilarious that your severely damaged son has to live with your senior citizen mother because you can’t get a clue and act like a parent to a child you spawned…
Like her, don’t like her, Barb is and has been the only consistent presence in his life. Unlike his mother, she never abandoned him to party, chase men and use drugs. She worked with the school and medical professionals to diagnose address his problems and never denied him medication unlike his mother. And when the star took all three children away, she took temporary custody. So keep cackling, unlike his mother, at least she tried to give him some normalcy and a home.
*state took away
There’s one downvote…is that you, Jenelle??
Laughing at your child. Sounds about right. Friggin idiot. She is one of the worst human beings ever born. I can not wait till karma shows up. I hate this bitch so much!
Casey Anthony vibes.
How would she know what’s happening at Barbs? She’s 2000 miles away.
And I highly doubt either Barb or Jace are giving her daily updates. They both probably have her blocked.
My thoughts too. This video of Jenelle being an unloving mother proves nothing. It means nothing. She’s just stirring the pot to torture her own child and mother. Very on character.
Her hairline recedes with every lie she tells, not even your kids will love you once they’re grown.
It will be “Farewell, Delujenelle 😘”
Barbara cannot control this kid. All 3 of Barbara’s children have mental health and/or behavioral issues. What does that say about her as a mother? Viewers seem to like her because of her funny one liners and quirky personality. The episode where Janelle/David confronted Babs at that mexican restaurant was really something. Babs drinking a 60ounce margarita. I hope she didn’t drive home.
People like her because she actually raised not only her kids but also her grandkid when Jenelle was so high and chasing 🍆 that she basically dumped Jace on her. Nobody thinks Barbara is perfect but compared to Jenelle she’s a saint
You realize a lot of mental health d8sorders are genetic and not learned right???🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
As per usual you saw 2 + 2 and thought the answer was 8. 🙄 Believe it or not responsible adults are allowed to have a drink from time to time. And aren’t you the one who once mansplained the Chrisleys fraud conviction to someone else and then had the absolutely disgusting take that what they did was worse than what Josh Duggar did because he only “touched his sisters?” That was you right? Boy bye. You believe in enabling abusers of every kind. You should be on a watch list somewhere.
It was a glass of wine. And Jenelle father’s had a whole list of issues. So you can’t just blame Barb.
Hey jenelle
You stick up for Jenelle and her disgusting lack of love for her kids. You blame Barbara for everything like your idol does. But let me ask you something and I want an HONEST answer. When Jenelle was still living with Barb, who did we see charging with a closed fist, chest bumping and threatening to punch in the face? That wasn’t Barb. That was your teen idol Jenelle. She’s an awful person, rotten to the core and here you are defending her. That’s not a nice look, Stanley. OOO, Barb drank a margarita. Better call the DA and have her jailed. (note sarcasm) Are you also as critical of Jenelle when she goes out boozing and gets so drunk she doesn’t know how she “fractured” her wrist, or no?
Barb’s kids have mental health issues — and? That’s Barb’s fault? It couldn’t possibly be a genetic thing they inherited from their father? You don’t think so? And as a single mom myself, let me tell you how hard it is to hold down a job to support the kids that the father has abandoned, run a household, raise kids and not have anyone to help. I’m sure there were plenty of times when Barb was at work and the kids wanted her home. I imagine that there were times when Jenelle was left in the care of her 2 older siblings and kids will fight, pick on the weakest, try to fend for themselves and figure out life. It’s hard for everyone.
Jeesh- people are still on that SINGLE drink Barb has in 2019?! THATS the evidence of Barb being terrible? I agree, Barb isn’t great either. All of her children are absolutely fucked & now her grandchild too. We have seen her in action, she does not have the proper tools to parent well either. All the more reason Jen should have stopped at the one fucking child she abandoned! Clearly there is something in the genes. Not to mention Jen hates her so why do such a terrible job that she has to raise your child? Barb also shouldn’t & wouldn’t be raising Jace (& never wanted to!) if his loser mother stepped up anytime in the last16yrs to do her job OR if she hadn’t made the decision to not put him up for adoption, like Barb absolutely begged her to do, just to spite her mom
She just never stops to connect the dots. Abandonment is one of the hardest things kids can go through.I wish she would get it and then put the work in to recover what she can. She’s such a monster.
It’s like people who come at Barb but say nothing about their alcoholic dad who dipped out on them (among other things). I’m not saying the Almighty Babs is perfect, but I’m grateful I don’t have to parent a ‘Jenelle’. I don’t think I could keep it together, either. She’s gotta have some next level personality issues.
Get off live and go parent your other poor children, you joke of a mother.
Exactly. Barbara was doing her best as a single mother. She was having to work all the time to support her kids because she didn’t have MTV money and she also wasn’t moving in random men or trashy friends to help raise them. She may have been at her wits end and yelled a lot, but she was always there for them and we’ve all seen her put up with Jenelle’s shit and love her even when she didn’t like her. Barbara is far from perfect, but she loves her kids and grandkids and puts them ahead of herself, something Jenelle has never and will never do.
Amen to that.
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