Jenelle Evans‘ estranged sister Ashleigh has been quite outspoken regarding the custody battle currently happening between Jenelle and their mom Barbara for Jenelle’s teenage son Jace. This week, Ashleigh posted a TikTok video in which she answered questions regarding the fight for custody, as well as where Jace’s father, Andrew Lewis, stands in all of the hubbub.
Ashleigh also gave her thoughts on Jenelle reuniting with her ex-husband David Eason, and how Barbara is fairing in her seemingly never-ending fight against Jenelle.
On Andrew Lewis’ involvement in Jace’s life & care:
As The Ashley has reported, Andrew is very active in Jace’s life now and has been living in North Carolina since last year. Ashleigh talked about how she feels Andrew has stepped as a parent for Jace.
“One of the biggest things that people have been trying to message me about is Jace’s father Andrew. Now, Andrew directly asked me not to speak about details and I’m not going to,” Ashleigh said…before speaking about the details.
“I will say that I am very proud and I encouraged him to kind of step up more for Jace because my sister’s not able to do that, or she just refuses to be a parent at this point,” she said.
Later in the video, Ashleigh spoke more about Andrew’s role in the situation with Jace. (When Barbara filed for custody of Jace last week, Andrew was named in the filing and is required to appear at the upcoming hearing.)
“…I’m very happy that Andrew did move closer to Jace,” she said. “He’s been trying as hard as he can. He’s paid child support and got medical insurance for [Jace]. Jenelle has refused to even get medical insurance [for Jace] for the help that he needs. She is demanding that Andrew and my mom pay for Jace’s medical treatment, which is ridiculous. She’s the parent— she apparently has custody or whatever— and there’s just so many legalities going on and she doesn’t even want to step up and be a mom.”
(According to court documents obtained by The Ashley, Andrew has been paying $400 in child support to Barbara, since at least December. While Andrew had been paying Barbara when Jace was living with her previously, his payments likely started going to Jenelle once Jace began living with her. Once Jace moved back to Barb’s last year, Andrew began paying Barbara again.)
Ashleigh also revealed that Andrew’s family members have also stepped up for Jace.
“I know others have been questioning about Andrew,” she said. “Look, Andrew has a great family. Jace has his other side of the family from his dad. They’re all supporting him and want to try to do be there for him. But it’s Jenelle that’s making that extremely difficult. She’s so bitter. She can’t just say, ‘OK, go live with your dad for a little while until you figure out what you want to do. You’re almost 18.’ Or, ‘go live with [Barbara] and get back on your meds. Let’s figure out a plan.’
“She doesn’t want to do that and, unfortunately, people who have mental illness, they’re unstable. They’re not thinking correctly, they’re not making the right choices.
Ashleigh mentioned that Jace had been going through some hard times before the incident in February but that Barbara and Andrew “have got it situated.”
On Barbara being denied emergency custody of Jace before filing for custody:
“The situation with emergency custody, I feel that it’s concerning,” Ashleigh— who is close to Barbara despite not speaking to Jenelle— stated. “I offered to come and do witness testimony against my sister. I think my mom is worried that if I do testify against my sister Jenelle, then my sister Jenelle is going to go after me, and my mom doesn’t want that for me. Or Jenelle may go after me and my two boys, Atlas and Gabriel, because she’s that evil. She’s evil.
“She’s got a lot of problems,” Ashleigh continued. “She’s got serious substance and mental health disorders that she’s not addressing for many years, and it’s just a repeated pattern. I’ve mentioned before that she’s always been in, like, a manic state. She’s not on medication and she’s very unstable.”
Ashleigh said that she believes Jenelle will “go after” her if she testifies at the court hearing on Jace’s behalf for her mom.
“I do feel like it’s mom mom’s and Andrew’s fight right now,” she added.
Ashleigh then addressed Barb’s bid for emergency custody of Jace being denied, stating that it’s “not uncommon” for a judge to deny emergency custody.
“I judge needed more evidence,” she said. “Jace is in a mental health facility, and that’s another reason why the judge denied it. I don’t think people understand that.”
Ashleigh then explained that Jace is still on probation, and that Barb has “guardianship of Jace to live with her [for] the remainder of his probation in North Carolina.”
On her feelings that Jenelle “played” Barbara to regain custody of Jace:
Ashleigh spoke about when Barbara signed custody of Jace back over to Jenelle a few years ago, adding that she had warned Barb not to trust Jenelle.
“[I told her], ‘She’s playing you,’ and that’s just what she did. She basically manipulated and played my mom,” Ashleigh said. “My mom thought [Jenelle] was doing great and she was not. She was just playing games behind the scenes and things erupted where Jace got put in CPS custody. He got sent to the mental health custody where I worked at, and Jenelle tried to have me fired at the hospital where I worked at.
“…Jace has been trying so hard to get away from Jenelle,” Ashleigh claimed, adding that Jenelle’s family had tried in the past to be supportive to her.
“But Jenelle refuses to be a mom and she refuses to step up,” she said.
“She just reconciled with David. That was a very poor judgment call,” Ashleigh added.
“When my mom told me about [Jenelle and David reuniting] and I seen this, I was just really concerned,” she added. “Not only about my mom, but Jace.”
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Why is that boy being tossed around. Jenelle to Barb when Jace was little, Jenelle, Andrew, Jenelle, Barb, didn’t other family members have him for a bit too? Sounds like no one is able to step up. Why would Barb even give custody back to Jenelle in the first place. Seems like he just needs to cut everyone out and find people who wont pass him around like a hot potato.
So she will go on record online but not on record with the court where it matters for Jace? What an odd choice of position. Poor Jace.
If you’re not scared to lay all this out to social media online, you shouldn’t be scared to go to court for your nephew. What a ridiculous thing to say.
She didn’t say she was afraid to, she said her mother doesn’t want her to for the safety of herself and her children. We all know Jenelle is evil and vindictive.
Imo, the moment Jenelle realized a baby wouldn’t trap Andrew she wanted to discard Jace.
As much as none of this needed to be made public, it is refreshing to learn that Andrew stepped up to get health insurance for Jace. Hopefully, the judge will strip Jenelle of her decision-making power so that Jace can get back on his medication and live a peaceful life without Jenelle’s interference.
Don’t you think legally that Jenelle would be required to carry medical on her own kid?
I wish they would stop publicly speaking about Jace and his mental issues. He didn’t ask for any of this shit and it’s all being played out for the world to see. That’s got to be even harder on Jace’s mental health. Another shifty outlet that I won’t name released the 911 call and that absolutely infuriates me. I appreciate the Ashley always taking Jace into account. Some of these other outlets don’t care a bit about Jace and his well being and they just blast it all.
I will never understand why the courts never stepped in not only to protect Jace but to protect Janelle’s other kids. I was pissed when Barb gave custody back to Jenelle because I knew this is what would happen and he would end up back with Barb anyway. Only now Barb has to get Jenelle’s permission to act in Jace’s best interests. Jenelle will never give legal custody to Barb out of pure spite. I truly do hope that Andrew has a solid family and they are surrounding Jace with as much love and support as they can. He needs that. I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Jace and I always will. It’s really sad though when perfect strangers are more concerned for Jace’s well being than his own so called “mother”.
I was glad they released the 911 call, it exposes Ashleigh for the liar she is.
Okay JENELLE POS
I would absolutely lie to anyone to know expose that information about my child or any child I cared about. I don’t think it discredits her at all.
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It discredits her because she said there was never a gun involved, Jace never threatened to kill himself or Barb , Jace DID NOT destroy the inside of Barbs house. @ Ashleigh, myself and a few others are still waiting on those C&D letters you threatened us with.
What are you even talking about? None of that is talked about in this article.
How would you know if Jace destroyed the house or not, unless you are Jenelle? Maybe log off and touch some grass.
There is no gun involved. I’ve already said this several times it does not discredit anything that I said everyone is looking too far into us. If there was a gun found in my mother‘s property don’t you think the police would know that the police were at my mother‘s house and they never found anything. Everyone doesn’t know what happened. I know what happened not off a police reports because from what my mom told me what I know from witnesses and other individuals that I’ve spoken to not only in person but over the phone. Also, my mother was terrified to call 911 apparently in that audio from what others have told me or from what I heard so she did not call 911. That makes no sense. There was no gun found in my mother‘s house. How many times do I have to reiterate the same story ?
Anita=Jenelle
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Whoa whoa wow I am not a liar. My mother was afraid to call 911 and we already know that she did not call 911 in NC county is different from city police magistrates sheriff does not have anything to do with 911 calls I’ve already said this before if you understand how the IVC process works, then you would know what this is but again you’re in do not. Please don’t call me a liar or my mother. Everyone has mishandled the information and they really need to stop talking about my nephew making him look bad and talking poorly about my mom. It is done and over with TMZ and other outlets have made a mockery of it on the Internet and it’s all false information. there is a reason why I spoke out, not only on my nephew’s behalf, but my mother‘s behalf and the rest of my family. If the person did not put my Mom or Jace‘s information out on the first place, nobody would know about this situation at all. This happened almost 2 months ago and nobody knew until somebody posted it. So please give us some privacy thank you.
I so believe you, and honestly, maybe you can perhaps answer this question for me? I’ve been asking this and nobody has a answer or refuses to even reply. It’s quite simple, could end all of this stupid gun nonsense. Does your Mom, aka Babs even own a gun in her house? Does she have a gun, registered in her name that she keeps for protection in her home? It’s quite ok if she does, I only asking as Jace is 16, so noway he could legally own or have one. So is there actually a gun in that house?
Not calling your mom a liar, I never did. ONLY YOU. Go listen to your moms 911 call.
WHAT??????? HAHA!!!!
Shut up chinelle. You’re a loser who chooses an abuser over your child. Don’t worry. Barb saved him as a baby from ending up a ward of the state and barb will save that precious child from your rotten evil clutches once again. Chinelle you are an absolute disgrace to mothers
That’s your take away from all of this? A teenager has spent his being abused by his mother who made a living by exploiting him on TV. That boy is currently hospitalized for mental health issue and … you know, if that’s what you got out of this, you are as dumb as Janelle.
Jenelle is a evil liar bitch!!!! Sorry its my opinion bye
Thank you for mentioning us. I have asked people for the past week to stop talking about it and to stop putting my nephew’s information and my mom‘s information making them look bad. The person who sold out the story should be held accountable. Unfortunately I do feel that it was my sister or one of her shitty ass friends who was told information for my sister or something I don’t know, but it’s just really disgusting. That other people could just keep talking about my entire family without solid facts. Thank you so much. I wish people would just respect privacy and understanding about the situation and how sensitive it is and just stop making tabloid article articles about it. This was private information. Nobody knew about it a few months ago.
Ashleigh, you yourself said your sister is a bully and mean. You’re a witness to all these atrocities, go to that court and testify in Jace’s favor. Jenelle has to pay.