Teen Mother’s Jenelle Evans Reveals Motive for Son Jace’s Transfer to Florida

The Teen Mother 2 alum took to TikTok on Tuesday to handle the backlash she’s confronted after revealing she let her 15-year-old son Jace transfer to Florida to dwell together with his organic father, Andrew Lewis.

“You guys are taking a look at it as a destructive scenario, however everybody behind closed doorways is taking a look at it as a constructive factor for him,” Evans mentioned. “You’ll be able to say all you need. You’ll be able to say I am not caring for my children. Being a mom is doing the most effective curiosity to your youngster and I’m doing the most effective curiosity for my youngster.”

Reviews emerged earlier this week that Jace had flown to Florida to dwell with Lewis, prompting followers to query Evans’ parenting and her resolution to let Jace dwell with a person who’s largely been absent for many of the teen’s life.

However based on Jenelle, the transfer was a essential one.

“He was recognized with ADHD on the age of 10,” she revealed in her TikTok video. “And most lately, in 2023, he was additionally recognized with main depressive dysfunction alongside together with his ADHD and defiant dysfunction or ODD.”

She continued, “With defiant dysfunction, it is very exhausting to cope with. Youngsters act out on goal as a result of they need consideration. They haven’t any regret. They haven’t any empathy for what they did.”

Evans went on to explain her son’s ongoing psychological well being struggles as a long-standing “secret” within the household, earlier than explaining why she hadn’t publicly shared these points till now.

“We by no means wished to place it in entrance of the media and clarify it as a result of it was Jace’s privateness,” she defined. “Now we have gotten to the purpose the place it is occurred too many instances, a number of incidents for years and years and years. One thing needed to be achieved.”

That one thing, was calling Lewis and asking for assist, throughout what Evans mentioned was a second of panic.

“I had a panic assault and I ended up calling Andrew crying and I used to be like, ‘I do not know what to do anymore. I need assistance,'” Evans recalled. “And he mentioned, ‘Let me assist you. Let me assist you.'”

Along with her ex, Lewis’ mom can also be a part of Jace’s new help system in Florida.

“Collectively we got here to this settlement that it could be the best choice for him proper now,” Evans went on to elucidate.

And whereas it is the suitable resolution for Jace proper now, Evans, who additionally shares son Kaiser, 10, with ex Nathan Griffith, and daughter Ensley, 8, with estranged husband David Eason, mentioned certainly not has it been a straightforward one.

“We have tried every little thing we might,” she maintained. “Proper now, he must be in a scenario the place each households are protected.”

Whereas some followers questioned why her mom, Barbara Evans, who had custody of Jace for a lot of his adolescence, did not step in once more, Jenelle mentioned bluntly: “She could not deal with it anymore.”

The transfer comes after some headline-making incidents from the teenager, which included Jace working away from residence, amongst different issues.

However even with the backlash, Evans mentioned she seems like she’s making the suitable resolution for her son on this second.

“I really feel like once you’re coparenting, if each side of the household can come collectively to assist resolve these points earlier than they flip into an grownup … it is simply actually essential,” she mentioned. “I put all of the drama apart and mentioned, ‘Let’s simply do that.'”

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