Jenelle Evans is getting vulnerable.
Following her separation from husband David Eason in March, the MTV star—who is mom to sons Jace, 14, and Kaiser, 9, from previous relationships, as well as daughter Ensley, 7, with David—shared an update on how her children are faring.
“They’re doing a lot better now that we’ve separated,” she said while chatting with fellow cast member Briana DeJesus during the June 13 episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. And while she noted she got “full custody” of Jace last year, she admitted, “We did have ups and downs.”
And one of those low points was Jace running away from home towards the end of last summer, which Jenelle addressed in the episode.
“Once CPS got involved and Jace ended up at the hospital,” she told Briana, “Jace was like, ‘David strangled me.’ And then Jace was allowed to come home, but there’s criminal charges on David for strangulation and child abuse. So then I was like, ‘David, he’s coming home and you’ve got to leave. I’m sorry.’ This was all a blessing in disguise because it put a no contact order between David and Jace.”
In January of this year, David was indicted by a grand jury on child abuse charges stemming from the September incident between him and Jace, which he’s denied in posts on social media. The case is still pending.
