Jenelle Evans is once again battling with her estranged sister, and this time the fighting is apparently about the recent death of their father.

Jenelle’s sister Ashleigh Evans Wilson, announced Thursday on Facebook that their father— Robert Evans— had passed away. While Robert— with whom Jenelle and Ashleigh were estranged from for years– actually died in December, Ashleigh stated that she had only recently been informed of his death. In a Facebook post (that was removed shortly after it was posted), Ashleigh reflected on her time with her father, whom she claims “passed away peacefully” after a battle with lung cancer. Ashleigh– who is now 37— stated that she hadn’t seen Robert in 18 years.

“I didn’t know he passed until my mother called me,” Ashleigh wrote in her first post. “…I’m glad I got that closure. That was shocking news today.”

It appears that Jenelle was not happy that Ashleigh announced Robert’s death online, something Ashleigh confirmed in a follow-up Facebook post on Friday.

“I’ll be going to be off-line for a little while,” Ashleigh wrote. “Unfortunately my sister [Jenelle] is starting strife between the family and I’ve chose to block them out again because it’s better to protect your heart and my mental health and deal with her drama… I’m having a lot of hard feelings and mixed emotions about [our father’s death]. It’s very unsettling, very upsetting. My sister does not understand everybody grieves differently. My brother and I are very upset with her. She’s very selfish and cares about herself.”

“What she did yesterday was very hurtful and uncalled for,” Ashleigh continued, adding that she and their brother Colin plan to discuss the situation in an upcoming YouTube/social media video.

“As an influencer it’s my duty to notify you guys,” Ashleigh wrote. 

The Ashley has been able to confirm that Jenelle and Ashleigh’s father, Robert E. Evans, did, indeed pass away in December at the age of 75. According to death records, he is buried in a cemetery in Pennsylvania, where he lived.

Robert never appeared on any of the ‘Teen Mom’ shows. In fact, he wasn’t even aware that Jenelle was on the show (or that she had become a teenage mother) until a reporter from Star magazine called his sister (Jenelle’s paternal aunt) in 2011, shortly after Jenelle began appearing on Teen Mom 2.

“None of us has seen or heard from Jenelle since she and her older sister and brother, Ashleigh and Colin, moved to North Carolina in the late 1990s with her mom after her parents got divorced,” Jenelle’s aunt stated, adding that Jenelle’s dad was in disbelief upon hearing what had become of Jenelle. 

“He was shocked — there was total silence on the phone,” Jenelle’s aunt told the magazine at the time. “He clearly was stunned by what’s happened.”

In her 2017 book, Read Between the Lines: From the Diary of a Teenage Mom, Jenelle talked about her father and stated that she hoped to reestablish a relationship with him one day.

“Robert Evans was only in my life for a little while. For that short and glorious time, I was daddy’s little girl,” Jenelle wrote.  “I loved and admired him. I still do in some way. Without warning everything changed, and my dad cut himself out of my life…Even now, as a grown woman, we don’t talk. Maybe one day that will change. Maybe one day we can find one another, get to know each other, and he can finally be my father. Until then, he is just my biological dad.”

Robert was married to Jenelle and Ashleigh’s mom Barbara from 1984-1996. Jenelle has stated that Robert eventually walked out on the family after his rocky marriage to Barb ended when she was a little girl. Jenelle has claimed that she lost touch with her dad altogether after she moved to North Carolina with Barbara and her siblings at the age of 12. (Bob remained in his native Pennsylvania after the divorce.) 

 “I don’t know why my dad ended up leaving. I just know my mom talked about a lot of him drinking and I guess he had an addiction to cocaine, from what I hear,” she stated on a 2021 episode of her very-short-lived podcast. 

On the same episode of her podcast, Jenelle admitted that she and her then-husband David Eason once tried to contact Bob after a night of drinking. She said that her dad seemed drunk when he answered the call so she hung up.

However, she discussed how growing up without her father in her life has affected her.

“Growing up and seeing my friends around their dads and how their dads treated them, and how David’s dad treats him now, it makes me jealous in a way but it also makes me sad,” Jenelle said in 2021. “It makes me upset that you know, he didn’t want to be involved and he still doesn’t want to be involved. And he has grandchildren that he doesn’t know about but I don’t know. He never reached out to me…”

In 2016, Radar Online did an interview with Robert, who stated he had no idea how to get in touch with Jenelle or her siblings.

 “They don’t call me,” he said. “They don’t get in touch with me…Yeah I would probably like to get in contact with her. If she wants to get ahold of me, my number is in the phone book. She can call me anytime she wants.”

Jenelle has not yet publicly addressed the death of her father or her most-recent battle with her sister Ashleigh.

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