Jenelle Evans was supposed to come face-to-face with her estranged husband David Eason in court this week– after making a bombshell allegation against him in court back in August– but things did not exactly go as the former Teen Mom star planned.
The Ashley can reveal that Jenelle flew to North Carolina this week from her home in Las Vegas to attend a scheduled hearing related to her pending divorce from David. (She was accompanied by her manager-turned-soulmate “August Keen” on the trip.) According to court records obtained by The Ashley, Jenelle and David were due to discuss several important topics, including custody of their daughter Ensley and child support, as well as the equitable distribution of joint property and court costs.
The hearing would also presumably cover a claim Jenelle made against David at their last court hearing (in which David no-showed). In audio of the August court hearing (which has been obtained by The Ashley), Jenelle is heard stating she had found items belonging to David that are allegedly related to “exploitation” of minors. David is now apparently attempting to hire a lawyer to help him with this case.
Although Jenelle flew to North Carolina for the hearing, The Ashley can confirm that the divorce hearing was unexpectedly continued during the court session at the request of David.
“The defendant [David] requested the case to be continued so that he can hire counsel,” the clerk told The Ashley.
As The Ashley previously reported, David has been making his way through his various legal cases (including the divorce case and the restraining order case Jenelle filed against him earlier this year) without a lawyer. (Back in April, he even randomly begged Jenelle’s old lawyer, Dustin Sullivan, to represent him on the day the restraining order hearing was going down but was promptly turned down by Dustin, whom he basically ambushed at the courthouse.)
Now, though, it appears that he is attempting to hire an attorney to fight Jenelle, who has her own lawyer for the case. It is unknown where David will get the funds to pay for a private lawyer, as he told the court in May in an Affidavit of Indigency— which has been obtained by The Ashley– that he only had $106 total in all his bank accounts at the time. Since public defenders are not assigned for civil/family/divorce cases, David must have gotten his mitts on some cash if he plans to hire an attorney for the divorce case.
It is unknown if the accusation made by Jenelle against David while she was on the witness stand at the last hearing is the reason that David is trying to hire a lawyer.
The Ashley can exclusively report that, back in August— when Jenelle was fighting to obtain sole legal custody of daughter Ensley— Jenelle told the court that she was scared to have David around her kids, given some items she allegedly found at her home on The Land after David left.
“There’s other concerns I have [about] David,” Jenelle told her court while on the witness stand. “I filed a police report recently about some memory cards I found. It was in my house, they were from David Eason’s phone. It was along the lines of sexual exploitation of a minor.”
At that point, Jenelle tears up on the witness stand and starts sobbing. She’s then allowed to step down from the witness stand.
Although Jenelle did not give any more details in court about the items she allegedly found, days later she did hint on social media that she had recently uncovered some “disgusting” things about David. In a vague Facebook post voluntarily posted by Jenelle on August 10, she disclosed that she had reported David to authorities over what she had allegedly found.
“What’s even more sad about all of this is that I hold so many disgusting secrets for him and want to share my story but the timing isn’t right for the public to know,” she wrote. ” … nothing compares to the secrets I found out after we separated.”
In another comment posted the same day, Jenelle wrote that David is not “to be trusted and not one for any child to trust.”
“It already has been reported to police, FBI and custody court,” she wrote. “My children are protected now and this is just emotions I have now that everything is done.”
Months earlier in April, Jenelle alluded on social media to David’s “secrets” that she was keeping for him.
“Everything he’s saying he’s just doing it to make himself ‘look better’ but in actuality he knows the person he truly is behind closed doors,” she wrote. “He has some dark secrets no one knows but me.”
David has never responded to Jenelle’s claims. However, The Ashley can confirm that, as of press time, no charges have been taken out on David in relation to anything related to these claims. A source also tells The Ashley that authorities are not planning to investigate further as they found Jenelle’s claims to be “unsubstantiated.”
David and Jenelle are set to meet in court in December for their next hearing related to custody/divorce.
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So I’ve been thinking about this and wondering why just now she wants to put this on the court record? Its just a speculation, I don’t know these people… could she be worried that one of her children will tell CPS that something happened to them and eventually the media will get a hold of it, so she is thinking ahead and blaming David for it? What if one of the multiple times Jenelles been passed out drunk/high and unable to tend for her children someone did something to one of her them? Anything is possible she’s an unfit parent and the timing of this allegation is interesting.
Remove those kids and don’t let Jenelle or David near them ever again. Should be simple, right? Fuck.
While I don’t doubt UBT would do such a thing, it’s mighty convenient that she’d stumble upon such information right when she needed it. If true, she probably knew the whole time and just didn’t care until they broke up. Typical Jenelle.
Oh wow, so Jenelle lied again? Wow. I’m just utterly shocked. 🙄🙄🙄
So you are accusing David of being a p3do while simultaneously leaving your girl with your random boyfriend while you fly of to Tennessee to get Kaiser? You just can’t learn from experience, can you Jenelle?
Kenleigh got David a lawyer….we all know he’s allergic to work.
As for the accusations against David, they aren’t surprising. If authorities aren’t pressing charges against him due to “unsubstantiated” claims, that makes me quite curious. Is Jenelle lying? That doesn’t sound like her 😂 She was crying her lungs out in court.
I’m honestly surprised Jenelle has been so healthy lately. One would think with all this stress, some new vague symptoms would flare up.
he’s so gross but she had all of her kids around him for years no problem let him choke her son out and defended it stayed after he killed their dog this bitch needs to shut up pointing fingers shes a pos shes not a mother she has destroyed her kids lives she threw her son in a facility again when are her kids going to be taken from her for good is all I want to know
They both tried to claim that Nathan abused a boy.
So basically JE is claiming 2 of her men were Pedophiles?
I remember reading that David had been in some kind of trouble when he was a teenager for sexually abusing a family member. That came out during the whole mess with kaiser being beaten by David and David killing the dog.
Well, I’m for anything to knock Jenelle down a notch, so, good for him, I guess?
Sheeeeeoooot it just keeps heatin’ up in Shrek’s swamp! I look forward to watching these two tear each other apart and air all their dirty secrets for the next year.
Me too, but what about those poor kids in the middle of it all?
Yep, they are the real victims in all this and the sad part is that they never had a chance from the beginning.