“Teen Mom 2” star Jenelle Evans’ oldest son, Jace, has been found protected Tuesday after he was reported as a runway juvenile to the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Department in North Carolina.
“As a boy mom, kids can act up and rebel as I’m sure the vast majority of us all once did as kids too,” Evans, 31, told The Post in an announcement.
“Jace got in trouble at college, we decided to take his phone away and that’s when he decided to run off, Jace is a very good kid and we’re not coping with anything that the majority families don’t cope with while raising children. This has absolutely nothing to do with my situation with David, we don’t argue in front of our kids or fight in front of our youngsters,” she said in reference to her husband, David Eason.
Evans emphasized: “This can be a teenage boy being a youngster mad that we decided to take his phone away.”
Evans’ manager, August Keen, thanked the sheriff’s department for helping with the protected return of Jace to his family.
Earlier Tuesday, the sheriff’s department posted on its Facebook page, asking the community to maintain a watch out for Jace, who was last seen leaving Roger Bacon Academy in Leland, North Carolina, around 2:45 p.m.
He was said to be wearing either a gray sweatshirt with “Classical Charter Schools of America” written on it, or the navy shirt he’d been wearing underneath.
Evans celebrated Jace’s 14th birthday earlier this month in an Instagram post.
“14 YEARS OLD EVERYONE! #HappyBirthday to Jace! You’re growing right into a such polite young man. I’m completely happy so long as you’re completely happy!” she captioned a photograph of the 2.
Evans rose to fame while she was carrying Jace, on MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” in 2009. She then starred in “Teen Mom 2” alongside Kailyn Lowry, Leah Messer, and Chelsea DeBoer.
Her time on TV was full of controversies and captured her turbulent relationships with various boyfriends, in addition to together with her mom, Barbara Evans.
Barbara was granted custody of Jace for 13 years until Jenelle regained custody of him back in March.
“She’s like, ‘I’m able to have my freedom. I’m able to go on a cruise.’ And her and her friend have a cruise already planned,” Jenelle claimed about how Barbra felt concerning the custody agreement in an Instagram post.
Evans has two more children: son Kaiser Orion, 9, together with her ex-boyfriend Nathan Griffith, and daughter Ensley Jolie, 6, together with her husband, David Eason.
She can be stepmom to Eason’s daughter, Maryssa, 15.
