Jenelle Evans' gun-wielding road rage incident is getting her a lot of backlash, but could it now lose her the custody of her children Kaiser and Ensley?
For Jenelle Evans, this season of Teen Mom 2 has been a very, very wild ride.
From her husband David Eason being fired to ongoing custody battles for her son Kaiser, she hasn’t had a moment to catch a break. Now, it’s clear that that isn’t going to change any time soon.
Keep reading to watch footage of Jenelle’s road rage incident!
Although the shocker of the Teen Mom 2 season finale is still fresh in everyone’s minds, there’s one other scene that fans can’t seem to forget: when Jenelle pulled a gun on a driver for tailgating her. Now it seems that Jenelle isn’t finished facing the reprecussions of her actions.
“I just took Jace to another therapy appointment, and we’re going get ice cream before I take him back to my mom’s,” Jenelle reveals in the voice over of a clip of her and Jace in the car. “My car’s a mess! I got food all over me! This is what it’s like having kids,” Jenelle sings.
In the clip, Jenelle can be seen speeding up and slowing down her car. “Dude, are you kidding me right now? This dude behind me… Dude, I will go so slow if he keeps tailgating me,” she says. “I will go slow the whole way.”
She tells Jace to sit back, and says, “Now he’s stuck.” Then the car peels off from behind her and Jenelle slams on the brakes after he apparently stops his car in front of her.
“Are you f*cking kidding me, dude?!” Jenelle screams. “Oh my God!” She tells Jace to give her his phone. He asks if she’s calling 911.
“I am driving down Highway 17 right now. The driver in front of me is a white… looks like an F150. He was tailgating me the whole way, would not stop. Then he races in front of me and purposely slammed on the brakes at 70-something miles an hour, and I almost got veered off the side of the road. That’s how bad I had to slam on the brakes,” she says on the phone, then adds, “Thank you,” and hangs up.
MTV added the following footage to the clip: “The driver in front of Jenelle turned off the highway. Jenelle chose to follow him.”
In the clip, Jenelle stops the car and unbuckles her seatbelt quickly. Then she can be seen moving what appears to be a gun into the side of her seat.
“If he tried to get out and hurt you, I got this nerf gun, I can whip him,” Jace tells his mother as she informs David what happened.
“Jace almost got whiplash and he almost banged his f*cking head,” Jenelle says. “I called the cops, so they’re on the way.”
Jenelle begins yelling to someone off screen, presumably the driver. “I got three cameras in my car. They got the whole thing,” she yells. “I just called the law on you! You were tailgating me, you dumba**!”
She drives farther as a slide from MTV explains, “Jenelle unintentionally backed into the other driver’s mailbox.” Jenelle exclaims “Oops, my bad; I didn’t mean to do that!”
Jenelle yells, “Now he’s backing me in. Dude, he just hit my car! Dude, leave me alone!”
The footage cuts out, but MTV reveals, “At this point, Jenelle pulled out her firearm.”
In the next clip, Jenelle tells David on the phone, “Babe, he won’t let me leave.” David can be heard screaming, “Are you at his house? What are you doing at his f*cking house?!”
“I’m in the middle of his road and now he’s leaving, babe,” Jenelle yells. David screams, “Well don’t f*cking godd*mn follow him! You call the police, you don’t follow people!”
“Now he’s following me,” Jenelle says as she pulls down onto the highway. Jace reports, “There we go, he left.”
“Dude, he hit my car… the front of my car is f*cked up,” Jenelle says. David replies, “You don’t follow a grown man his f*cking house,” and Jenelle hangs up on him.
Jenelle calls her producer, reporting that “an a**hole… slammed onto his brakes so hard that I almost went off the f*cking highway.” Then she reveals that a police officer is following her.
Jenelle starts to cry, revealing that she’s been pulled over. She tells the police officer, “I was on the highway and this guy was tailgating me in a huge truck. He got in front of my car, he slammed on the brakes so hard that I swerved off onto the grass and [Jace’s] head almost hit the dashboard… He went down a dirt road. I followed him, he went to his house and he parked. Then all of a sudden, he pulls out his truck and tries to corner me in. He’s yelling at me, ‘You’re going to jail! You’re not leaving!’” She gets out of the car to talk with the officer.
Recently, the legal reprecussions Jenelle will be facing for her actions were also revealed.
According to The North Carolina State Highway Patrol via ET, no charges were filed against Jenelle or the tailgater after the an investigation into the incident. They added that even after the footage aired on Monday, there are “no plans to reopen the investigation.”
"Jenelle has not commented on the scene, but she’s still on the show -- and we will see her in future episodes,” reveals a source close to Teen Mom 2 production, according to ET. The added that this includes “the season finale, next Monday, and a reunion [show] at the end of August."
According to TMZ, Jenelle got off easy because Jace was in the car. Robert Robinson Jr., the man who brake-checked Jenelle, told TMZ that “once he saw jenelle pll down his dirt road… he alerted all his neighbors someone was coming.” TMZ notes that all of his neighbors, like him, are armed.
Robinson told TMZ that “he only pulls [his gun] out to protect himself… and shoots to kill.” The outlet adds, “He exercised restraint once he saw she had a kid in the SUV.”
Jenelle may have gotten off easy when it comes to the law, but now it seems she’ll be facing repercussions when it comes to the custody of her son. During the finale of Teen Mom 2, Barbara told Jenelle exactly how she felt about her behavior.
“Did you pull a gun on him? That’s what [Jace is[ telling me,” Babs asked Jenelle, who replied, “No I didn’t Jace! Why are you saying I pulled a gun out on him? I did not do that.”
Barbara told Jenelle not to follow “crazy people,” but Jenelle shot back, “I’m protected all the time. The point is you don’t tailgate people.”
Shockingly, it was Jenelle’s ex and baby daddy Nathan Griffith who Barbara confided in in a later scene.
“I am so shaken by this,” Barbara said to Nathan. “When Jenelle left therapy with Jace, who was sitting in the front seat, some guy was giving her road rage. Instead of her letting the guy go, she follows him. She pulled a gun out. Jace was in the front seat. What if he had a gun and shot Jenelle? What if it killed Jace?”
“She should’ve just let him go and went back to her house,” Nathan replied. “A lot of people have road rage, it doesn’t mean you act like a maniac and start pulling guns on people.”
Barbara then made it clear she doesn't’ feel comfortable with Jenelle and David’s parenting. “We got to get these kids out of that house. This is bad. I got a call into my attorney. We’re going to court to get him out of his house. This is serious s**t. We need to get Kaiser out.”
Nathan clearly agrees with this, as he shared similar sentiments withTMZ.
“I think this helps me in my situation getting custody of Kaiser because it shows an unstable environment,” Nathan revealed in the video. “It shows a very hectic situation [that] instead of being calmed and smoothed over [ended up] escalating to where it can potentially be potentially more hazardous. So I think it shows that the child might be in danger being in a hostile situation like that and not making sound judgement to keep the children safe.”
He went on, “I know in Teen Mom 2, they cut out certain scenes and stuff, especially with David being fired. Of course we’re going to investigate farther into the raw footage and maybe take some of the things to court.”
He also opened up about his concerns for Jenelle’s parenting. “I provide a stable and peaceful environment and even the footage shows where I’m constantly trying to take Kaiser out of hostile situation,” Nathan said. “I am afraid that if Jenelle carries a loaded weapon inside the vehicle and she keeps it that accessible without a lock on it, it’s very dangerous to be around children … If they don't know certain unspoken laws [such as] always treat your gun like it’s loaded.”
Nathan added, “My personal belief, because of her erratic behavior, as you can tell in the video… I don’t agree with David a lot, but he made a strong statement. She probably shouldn’t have followed someone home period, especially with her aggressive personality.” He added, “That guy could have had a gun, too, and it could have been an all out brawl.” He finished, “I think their parenting skills lack quality, and I don’t think they’re properly educating children about the guns.”
Although Nathan was clearly emphatic about his opinions, fans were still underwhelmed. “It would be more effective if he told his lawyer,” pointed out jerkface1026 on reddit. “No Nathan, it won't help you get custody of Kaiser. It could possibly help Doris, but it won't help you,” chimed in RexyEatsGoats. “I didn’t realize Nathan was trying to get custody rather than just standing behind Doris and saying ‘yeah!’ when she says stuff 😂” joked justoneofmattskids.
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