Days after Casey Johnson was awarded emergency custody of his 14-year-old son Hunter, the stepdad of the Unexpected star is speaking out and claiming that Hunter is in “danger” at Casey and wife Brettney Johnson’s home, while insisting that both the public and the judge overseeing the custody case are unaware of what’s actually going on. 

As The Ashley told you last week, a judge awarded Casey emergency temporary custody of Hunter, and suspended the parenting time of Hunter’s mom, Stacie Riddle. The judge also banned Falen and Kris Vaughn— the parents of Hunter’s 16-year-old baby mama Bella— from having any contact or communication with Hunter for the time being, unless Casey agrees to a meet-up, which he would also supervise. 

Friday’s ruling came one day after Casey– who has been actively trying to get custody of Hunter away from Stacie for more than a year– filed a Petition for Emergency Ex Parte Custody, as well as a request for an emergency hearing in the case, following Falen’s recent arrest. 

In a (VERY lengthy) response to a comment on the Unexpected TLC Facebook page, Stacie’s husband/Hunter’s stepdad, Clay, insisted that the judge overseeing the custody case “probably didn’t even read what’s going on,” and claims that “Hunter feels like he’s in danger” at his dad’s home. 

Clay went on to tell what he says is “the truth” about Hunter’s upbringing, in which he painted Hunter’s mom Stacie as a hardworking parent who never received any support from Hunter’s father.

“ … [Stacie] has always put her kids first unlike the sperm donor,” Clay wrote, referring to Casey. “When Hunter was a toddler, sperm donor couldn’t keep a job. Stacie worked her butt off to provide for her son … .” 

The Ashley has looked into the court documents on this going back all the way to 2013. It does appear that Casey frequently changed jobs every year or so while Hunter was growing up. He also had his child support garnished from his wages and there were instances that he was in arears. It also appears that, as far back as 2014, Casey was stating that he wasn’t getting appropriate visitation with Hunter, with Casey even filing in court about it in 2014. However, later that year, Casey dropped the filing, telling the court that he and Stacie were “cooperating” regarding his visitation with Hunter and did not see the new for a formal visitation schedule to be set.

Hunter’s stepdad Clay also insisted that, despite previous claims made by Casey in his court filings, Stacie never went to rehab and that she “got clean on her own” from drugs and “started going to church.”

This, however, seems to direct conflict with what Stacie herself told the court earlier this month in her answer to Casey’s custody filing.

“[Stacie] was going through drug rehabilitation from 2013 until 2017 and was able to see the minor child when the minor child visited [Casey’s] parents, the paternal grandparents,” Stacie’s court filing states.

Clay noted that while Stacie never married Casey, she did go on to marry someone else (before him) and after the two split up, Stacie went through “a depression phase” and started to associate with the “wrong people.” Clay blamed his wife’s past drug use on “peer pressure,” though he maintained that Stacie never went to rehab and “was strong enough to get clean on her own.” 

As for why Hunter allegedly stopped going to his dad and stepmom’s house, Clay claimed that Hunter didn’t want to be around his stepmom Brettney, due to the way she allegedly treated him. According to Clay, Hunter has claimed that his stepmom would “lock him in his room” and go through his things when he was not there– actions which Clay noted were “[kind of] weird.” 

Clay’s comment also addressed Falen’s recent arrest and the details of the incident that he claims were wrongly reported. (As The Ashley previously reported, Stacie got into a fight with Casey and Brettney after trying to take Hunter during Casey’s parenting time. Things escalated after Brettney allegedly refused to allow a cellphone linked to and paid for by Falen into their home. During the argument, Falen and Kris showed up to Casey and Brettney’s home and Falen ended up being arrested for disorderly conduct and interfering with police.) 

Clay insisted in his comment that Stacie never approved of a family friend taking Hunter to Casey’s home after his baseball game and because Stacie “is very protective” of her kids, she chose to drive Hunter to Casey’s herself– something Clay said “had never been an issue” before. After Hunter was dropped off at his dad’s home, the teen allegedly called his mom and while they were talking, Brettney “barged in his room” and told Hunter to “get off the MFing phone,” which Stacie allegedly heard through the phone. 

“ … and [Brettney] put her hands on him and he yelled at his mom [to] call the police,” Clay alleged. “ … [Brettney] had no business barging in his room what if he had been undressing or something?” 

Despite previous reports, Clay argued that Hunter did not pin his stepmom down amid their argument, and insisted that Brettney lied about the events in an attempt to portray herself as the victim, even though Hunter was the one “being attacked.” 

“[Brettney] didn’t run from [Hunter] and lock herself in the car [as people claimed] … she grabbed his phone and locked herself in the car trying to get screenshots,” Clay wrote. “ … so those of you who are glad he’s at his [dad’s] house Hunter is probably scared.. he has proof of things on his phone that’s why they didn’t want him to have it… it has nothing to do with who owns the phone at all … .

“Bottom line a kid made a mistake and got a girl pregnant happens every day unfortunately … ,” he continued. 

Clay concluded his comment by telling people it’s “really sad” that Hunter has been put in a place that “could be dangerous and definitely not where he wants to be” all because “people didn’t want to read and listen to what’s really going on.” 

“I pray people come to their senses!” he added.

Read Clay’s full comment below. 

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