Jenelle Evans’ most-recent ex-soulmate claims the fired Teen Mom star pawned off her parental responsibilities on him and left him stuck with a bill for her son Jace’s medical procedures!
“August Keen” (real name: Daniel Miranda) broke up with Jenelle last month and, since that time, the two exes have been bickering back-and-forth via media interviews and shady social media posts. On Tuesday, “August” came out swinging at Jenelle in a new interview with OK! Magazine, accusing her of being too HIGH! HIGH! to parent her three children, often leaving him to “play the parent” to Jace, Kaiser and Ensley– none of whom are his children.
“August” also claimed in the interview that Jenelle refused to take her oldest son Jace to the hospital after he injured his hand, leaving “August” to finally do so while Jenelle went out of town. The hospital trip reportedly left “August” with a hefty bill, which he claims Jenelle expects him to pay.
“I took Jace to the hospital one day because Jenelle kept refusing to take him because she was always too high and he had a messed up hand,” “August” told the magazine. “It was a constant battle, and I kept telling her he needs to go to the hospital, he’s in pain, his hand looks messed up, but she kept putting it off.”
(From what The Ashley hears, Jace injured his hand during one of the times he was destroying things inside Jenelle’s home. One of those times, Jenelle called 911 on Jace to report him. He was temporarily removed from Jenelle’s home after that incident but came back soon after.)
Anyway, “August” claims he ended up taking Jace to the hospital while Jenelle was in North Carolina for one of her many court hearings.
“As the adult, I had to sign off for it, so the bill for the hospital went under my name,” he said, adding that he’s been asking Jenelle to pay for her son’s bill for months but she has refused.
“She is refusing to pay for her own child’s medical expenses and expects me to pay for it,” he said, adding that Jenelle told him to call the hospital and deal with the bill himself.
“August”— who was Jenelle’s soulmate in Las Vegas after she left husband David Eason— then slammed Jenelle’s parenting abilities, claiming she was too busy using drugs to deal with the day-to-day tasks that come with being a mom, and often expected him to take charge of the kids.
“She needs to step up as a mother and take care of her kids and stop expecting for everyone else to step up and play the parent,” “August” said. “Just like my relationship with her, I was the one going to all the parent conferences and dealing with the kids’ school stuff when they got in trouble because she was always too high to give a s**t and go herself.”
As The Ashley previously reported, “August” called the police on Jenelle back in August and claimed Jenelle was very drunk and had “been hitting him all night.” In the same call, he told the 911 operator that Jenelle drinks a lot, takes pills and smokes a lot of weed. (Jenelle later denied his claims.)
When cops arrived to Jenelle’s home that night, “August” told them he was the stepfather of Jenelle’s kids, despite the fact that he and the fired ‘Teen Mom’ star never got hitched. (You can watch the police body cam footage from that night below!)
In his new interview, “August” basically doubled down on the claims he made that night, stating that he acted as a stepfather to Jace, Kaiser and Ensley because Jenelle wouldn’t step up as a parent. He told the magazine that he would often get calls from the kids’ schools because Jenelle would “never answer” her phone when they called.
“She would get mad at the schools for them calling her so much [and] she would have meltdowns that the principal or after-school programs would call her,” “August” said, before stating that, in his opinion, Jenelle would have lost custody of her kids by now had he not been around.
“If it wasn’t for me, she probably wouldn’t have her kids right now,” he said.
“She needs to take accountability for her own children and pay this hospital bill!” “August” added. “I would take care of it, but she doesn’t deserve that from me.”
Jenelle took to social media soon after the interview was posted, and accused “August” of trying to get attention. (It’s important to note, however, that Jenelle did not deny his claims.)
