Jenelle Evans Defends Her Decision to Offer to Let Troubled Ex Nathan Griffith Stay At Her House Before His Arrest: “I Have a Big Heart!”

Jenelle Evans is standing by her decision to offer to allow her ex, Nathan Griffith, to stay at her home last week, despite the fact that he was (allegedly) drunk and basically on the run from the cops at the time.

As The Ashley reported, Nathan— who is the father of Jenelle’s middle child Kaiser— was arrested on Wednesday night after a standoff with the cops following an argument with his girlfriend Anastasia Biddle. Nathan was eventually hauled off to jail and charged with domestic battery by strangulation and violating his probation, but earlier that night had called Jenelle asking for help, claiming he was about to be arrested. On Thursday, Jenelle told her social media followers that she had offered up her Las Vegas home as a place for Nathan to stay– even stating that he could sleep in bed with Kaiser— whom Nathan has not seen in more than two years.

Although Nathan ended up being arrested before he could make it to Jenelle’s home, the fired Teen Mom 2 star is still catching a lot of flak for offering to let an allegedly drunk Nathan come over and hide from the cops at her home.

“If a man has chose to not see his child in 2 years, why would you attempt to help him?” someone asked the fired ‘Teen Mom’ star in the comment section of her TikTok post.

“Because I have a big heart,” she replied. 

“To waltz him back in when he’s drunk in the middle of the night is WILD,” another person wrote, to which Jenelle insisted she was going to have Nathan come over at 7 p.m. and not “the middle of the night.” 

“Choosing my child’s mental health by letting him see his father? Of course,” Jenelle wrote in the post’s comment section, telling another person who stated they would never let their drunken baby daddy stay at their house that, “I’m sorry you’re coldhearted but I’m not.” 

When one person on TikTok brought up the fact that it was probably not smart to have an already [allegedly] drunk Nathan show up to her home and crawl in bed with their son— whom he had not seen in literally years— while Nathan was wanted by the cops, Jenelle defended her decision, arguing that Nathan was not a threat to them because he was “more upset than angry” before his arrest.

She also denied that he would be able to [continue to] get his drink on, had he made it to her house that night.

“Actually I don’t have alcohol at my house so he has to start somewhere,” she wrote, later adding that, “what’s best for my own child is his father getting help and getting sober.” 

As The Ashley has previously reported, Nathan has a long history of arrests, with several being for domestic battery and strangulation, as well as alcohol-related offenses.  At the time of his arrest last week, Nathan was on probation for strangling his sister in 2023. Should he be convicted of violating his probation, the terms of his probation mandate that Nathan be sent to prison for a minimum of 12 months in prison, with a max of 48 months. 

While Live on TikTok on Monday, Jenelle admitted that “Nathan is dangerous in his own way,” but denied that she had any interest in starting up another romantic relationship with the legally challenged gym buff. 

“He doesn’t need any girlfriend,” Jenelle said, adding that Nathan’s wife, May Oyola, is also trying to help Nathan out. “His wife doesn’t want to be back with him either. She’s just trying to help because she feels bad. A lot of people want to help him but I don’t know. [It’s a] sticky situation. He should have got help a long time ago, you know? Like, I think he’s been drinking like this since he’s been in the military, and acting the way he does…”

While Nathan’s newest ex, Anastasia, was doing a TikTok Live over the weekend, Jenelle surfed on to start harassing the 21-year-old. During the Live, Jenelle accused Anastasia of keeping Nathan from seeing Kaiser, and stated that Anastasia had been jealous of both her and May, whom Nathan is still legally married to, despite their split in early 2024. 

A restraining order has been issued, barring Nathan from contacting Anastasia. As of press time, he remains behind bars and will head to court on May 6 for a hearing about having his probation revoked.