Jenelle Evans’ manager-turned-boyfriend-turned-ex “August Keen” (real name: Daniel Miranda) is spilling the tea all about Jenelle’s alleged drinking and drug problem!
While the fired Teen Mom star and her former soulmate— who broke up in February— have been slinging insults and accusations back-and-forth online all week, “August’s” latest claims regarding Jenelle’s kids are particularly concerning.
In a message posted to TikTok on Wednesday, “August” claimed that Jenelle once made her 15-year-old son Jace drive her to “August’s” home in the middle of the night, due to Jenelle allegedly being too “drunk and high” to drive herself. (Jace does not currently have a driver’s license or learner’s permit, just FYI.)
“How about you tell people the truth, how you were so drunk and high that you made JACE drive you to my house at 4 a.m., 45 minutes away, and he bragged to me about doing 120mph the whole way to my house while you laughed,” he wrote, adding that Jenelle allegedly broke the frames off his door when she arrived at his home.
As The Ashley told you earlier this week, Jenelle and “August” got into it on Tuesday after “August” accused the former ‘Teen Mom’ star of often being too high to parent her three children. He also claimed that Jenelle has refused to pay a medical bill for Jace, leaving him to deal with it instead.
After Jenelle claimed on social media Tuesday night that her kids never liked “August,” he hit back in a statement to OK! Magazine. According to “August,” Jenelle’s kids loved him and told him so daily.
“But anytime you didn’t get your way, you would tell the kids not to like me,” he said of Jenelle. “You would put them in the middle of all of our disagreements and manipulate them and lie to them to be on your side just like you do with people and the Internet.”
The kids aren’t, however, fond of Jenelle, according to “August.” He told the magazine that this is because they allegedly believe their mom is “a drunk and a druggie.”
“August” went on to claim that the only time Jenelle’s kids are happy with her is when she’s buying them things. Later in his statement, “August” stated that neither he nor the kids even saw Jenelle very much while he was at her Las Vegas home because Jenelle “was always locked away in the closets doing drugs by herself for hours and hours every single day.”
“It’s her daily ritual,” he said. “We couldn’t do anything as a family because she can’t function without a substance. It got so old, so fast. It was lame and seriously such a huge waste of quality time.”
“August” warned Jenelle that if she wanted to bring up the topic of kids, it’s a battle she “will lose.”
“ … so I suggest you keep kids out of your mouth when you speak about me,” he said. “I didn’t bring up the kids, I brought up a BILL you will be responsible for, one way or another. But you can’t respond intelligently because you never did register or understand things normally, and it’s your fault because you won’t give drugs and alcohol a f**king break.”
As for the unraveling of his and Jenelle’s relationship, “August” said having a relationship with the former ‘Teen Mom’ star “is seriously impossible,” claiming he spent half of his time “fighting” with Jenelle to “stop doing drugs in the house,” which he says she was not capable of doing.
Jenelle has since taken to X to fire off a string of responses to August’s statement, claiming her kids were never around when she and “August” would go out drinking and insisting that she doesn’t keep any alcohol in her house.
“And saying I’m ‘on drugs’ because I smoke is a little far-fetched,” she wrote in another tweet. “To you it’s a drug, to me it’s a plant.”
Jenelle then seemingly– and rather poorly– attempted to prove her innocence by bringing up the fact that she’s been accused of being on drugs by many of her exes, not just “August.”
“And you know how many exes try accusing me of being on drugs?!” Jenelle wrote. “You need to focus on not hitting women when you’re drunk and out of control. Join a rehab, or maybe AA would be a good choice for you? Just a thought.”
Jenelle followed up that tweet by telling her former Sin City soulmate that everyone is happier without him around.
“Everyone in my life doesn’t like you and everyone I know doesn’t want to work with you,” she wrote. “You’re a washed up ‘manager’ that just wants to get in between everyone’s deals and takes their money.”
(Photos: MTV; Instagram; X)
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You can put jewelry in a turd but it’s still a turd. Money to care for a child doesn’t make someone a parent. She shows people her 💩hole so she can have plenty of money to waste on drugs and take out and hotel rooms. She is not a mother, not a mature adult, and not suitable to have children.
I had a neighbor who I would talk to on the bus. He lived with his dad, mom was completely out of the picture.
His dad was a mess, they rented the basement of this house, he would spend all his money on drugs and alcohol. He did hold down a job and fed his kid, but that was about it. The son would eat those MREs, he would buy them from the military supply store. I mean, not my first choice, but at least he ate and it was enough calories.
The kid lived near me until middle school, and he would tell me he knew how to drive because his dad taught him so he could pick him up from the bar so he didn’t get a DUI. His dad taught him when he was 10 to use his 🔫, because you know, the dad thought it would be good just in case, since he was home alone most days.
He convinced his son that this was the “responsible” thing to do, because a DUI is so much worse than letting your 11-year-old drive around at 11 pm picking up his dad from the bar. It’s “responsible” that the kid knew the lockbox code for the 🔫, and knew how to turn off the safety, because you know in the last 40 years prior there had been 0 murders and 0 home invasions, just petty crimes of convenience, like leave doors unlock and they take wallet, or cash in glove box.
The dad got worse, and then couldn’t even keep a job, and they got kicked out, no idea what happened to him.
I say this to say, this isn’t as uncommon as people think. Addicts keep custody all the time, and the sad thing is in a lot of cases, there is no one to advocate for the kid, they think this is normal, if not a great way to teach them independence.
lol I grew up in the country and I drove for years before I had a permit. We ALL did, however… we wouldn’t be doing this in a major city or really any city
My grandparents owned a farm.
My uncle got his license at 14 because he qualified for a tracker license, and they would give you the full license.
But that’s not this situation….
Janelle is using her children to drive her drunk a$$ around at 4 am, so sad that Jace never had a chance, between Babs and Janelle and Andrew, his life was set up for failure when he was born. I was that Babs had followed through with the threat of adoption with Jace, his life would have turned out so much diffent.
How terrifying to be 14 and woken up at 4AM by your drunk & high off her ass mom telling you to get up and drive her to her ex’s house so she can yell at him in person.
Or equally worse if you’ve been up all night, playing video games and breathing in the contact high, unable to sleep bc mom is having a scream fight with her BF (or even just a very loud laughing or sexy time with her BF…).
I’ve had a 14 year old boy with ADHD (which apparently Jace is/was also medicated for)… and every school night was basically me playing sentinel to make sure he actually stayed in bed, in his room, when I sent him to bed for the night at 9:30PM. He could read for an hour, but he had to stay in his room, with lights out by 10:30PM. He needed the sleep, even if his ADHD brain suggested he go play video games, instead. He needed a little extra help to keep himself in bed and do what was best for him.
If I had been drunk or high, I wouldn’t have enforced “time to go to bed, brush your teeth, and wear your retainer for the night…” I would’ve been much more likely to pass out in bed at some time and hope everyone else somehow figured out how to care for themselves. And kids aren’t great at that! They’ll keep themselves alive….but they won’t intuitively do what’s best for them emotionally and sleep-wise.
Which is why I didn’t get drunk (and never high) unless I was home alone with my husband, and the kiddo was at a sleepover, or unless I very much paced myself on something like NYE, so that after the ball dropped, everyone in the family could say “Happy New Year! And goodnight!!!” at midnight, and my kiddo would be tired enough to just pass out when he was sent to bed (because I had always enforced the proper bed time before….meaning staying up an extra 2 hours while actively playing with family and watching TV was tiring…)
Barb never had the authority to place Jace for adoption. She begged Jenelle to let him be adopted, but Jenelle refused. Barb was finally able to appointed Jace’s legal guardian, but Jenelle was still his legal parent. For him to be adopted, Jenelle would have had to either relinquish her parental rights or have the state terminate them. It wasn’t up to Barb.
What I mean by push for it, I mean if she went to court.
If Babs wanted to, she could have gone to court, push for Jenelle and Andrew’s legal rights to be terminated due to neglect. I mean, Andrew left the state, abandonment would’ve been very easy to prove. And Janelle wasn’t taking care of Jace. So yeah, that would have been easy.
But I think that between Teen Mom money and child support Babs was getting she probably liked the arrangement. If financially benefited Babs to keep Jace because if they had placed in for adoption, then they would be off teen mom.
But we would’ve been better for Jace would’ve been to be placed for adoption with a family that actually didn’t resent him and wanted him.
And where were Kaiser and Ensley at 4 am ? He said it was. a 45 minute drive. So at least it was 1 1/2 hrs they were left alone in the middle of the night? CPS, are you getting this yet?
1.5 hours MINIMUM. That’s not including however long she was out there screaming and breaking his door frame.
Lurch’s attorney is eating this tf up. If Doris was smart, she’d be hiring a lawyer and doing the same thing!
Sadly, at this point, David actually looks like the more stable adult. And that HURT to even type.
It’s been a while since we’ve heard one of David’s shenanigans but in no way, shape or form he’s preferable to Jenelle. He’s violent to everybody even kids and is a drunk himself with a lengthy rap sheet. Neither of them should be in charge of kids.
It’s actually really gross that you would say a mother passed out on drugs, neglecting her kids, pawning them off on any random, and leaving them alone way too often, is preferable to a man who actually takes care of them but has a temper too. I don’t know what reality you reside in but a mother like that is by FAR more damaging than an angry dad. Without a single doubt. That sort of abuse by the one who’s supposed to protect and love and guide and care for you, is why THE MAJORITY of the population is so sickly messed up in the head. Anyone can hurt a person and life goes on, but when their own mother hurts them, especially so severely and so consistently, that’s a wound RARELY anyone ever recovers from. Learn about the mind and trauma before you go to bat for Jenelle. Cause you look so foolish acting like she’s the better option.
Don’t forget too that we KNOW Jenelle is very mentally unstable and mentally abusive too. If anyone thinks she is loving and kind for those kids, they are as delusional as she is. You know she’s only “nice” long enough to make videos so she can play pretend for the world. Like you do realize she is not everything bad in a woman but then is kind to her kids? She’s causing them so much mental and emotional stress and confusion, 100% guaranteed.
What’s gross is minimizing David’s documented pattern of violence as an “anger problem.” David doesn’t have an anger problem, he has a power and control problem. David hasn’t seen one of his kids for years because he’s legally barred from doing so. He strangled his stepson. We’ve heard 911 recordings of Jenelle and Ensley hiding and barricading themselves away from David. The fact that David has been laying low lately shows that he is in control of his violent behavior, he just feels entitled to use physical violence to control people who are physically weaker than him— like children and women. Jenelle is a terrible mother and human, no doubt. David is also a terrible father and human. We all wish Ensley had a safe parent she could turn to. She doesn’t.
Have you ever met a single human being ever? People do this crazy thing call change. They’ve been doing it since the beginning of time. When two awful people exit a marriage and one person continues doing awful things yet another shows a complete change in energy, behavior, and actions you don’t “assume” they are just “in control” of their ANGER ISSUES. Drug addicts do horrible things and turn their lives around all the time. Spouses cheat and lie and then turn their lives around all the time. Mothers screw up as mothers and then do better all the time. Shall I go on? No need to. When two awful people exit a marriage and one person continues doing awful things while the other shows a COMPLETE change in character, it’s ok to act like they’re as human as the rest of us and stop being such a hateful judgement person. People are allowed to change and they do it ALL THE TIME.
Anyone can hate David for his past and continue to hate him for anything they choose. We all have free will. But it’s also ok for someone else to believe someone can change because it happens all the time. If two people suck at parenting and one is passing out on drugs and putting kids in danger, while the other seems to get his crap together, people are allowed to stop hating David and hope he does better for his kids. I won’t say anymore on the matter. I had a horrible mother who never changed and an horrible alcoholic father who never changed. But I watched my extremely abusive husband completely change who he is through God and some random words on the internet won’t convince me that doesn’t happen all the time. Stay hateful, it’s not my issue.
Well my gosh, Ryan Edward’s was far more dangerous to Mac but him and his new drug addicted woman that he met in rehab who didn’t even raise her almost grown son, sure did receive far more grace and acceptance. But you know, it’s clearly David’s fault for not being born with a different face cause that’s how this world decides who is and isn’t worthy. But hey, that’s why Gods opinion is all that matters in the end. Because people will always choose a scape goat for the hate in their hearts and David is doing far better than Ryan and Kenleigh is far nicer than Amanda but hey, again, how dare they with the faces. One day you’ll all meet God and I hope you’re all as perfect as you pretend to be.
RIGHT?!? Haven’t heard a PEEP from him in so long. And you know we would have! It makes my skin crawl even THINKING about him getting custody of Ensley, but if Jenelle keeps up her bullshit (as she does) she’s going to wind up losing that little girl. And I know it takes a lot for courts to take custody from mom (most of the time and depending on the state), but she’s literally giving him the smoking gun. All he has to do is take screen shots of her and August arguing online.
He’s on his best behavior with the new willing victim.
She holds the purse strings so he stays in line. Once that dynamic changes, expect headlines.
Oh I know. I don’t believe he’s changed even a little bit. But he’s following instructions and letting Jenelle hang herself at the same time.
I believe Lurch was docile with Chinelle in the beginning too. They call that being on “company manners”. Once you really get to know someone, that’s when their true colors start to show. As with her and September, they knew each other but had never met. It almost seems like as soon as they met in person BAM, they moved in together. Once you do that, you can only hide your addictions for so long before the other person realizes that you’re not just a good time girl, but a full-blown addict and everything goes to $hit real quick
He really has come out on top and I’m not sure how to feel about this.. he murdered a dog! BUT this gross man got to live off Janelle, now he’s living off some young girl with money who totally has his back! He’s winning right now tbh and I bet Janelle is suffering inside herself.
Agreed. Here’s the thing, if David was up to LITERALLY ANYTHING, you know it would be viral. Anything at all. If he had a hair out of place then the world would know. People CAN change. Jenelle is a really bad person in my opinion and no matter what anyone says bad about David or his GF, if he traded a really bad woman for a good woman, that could and does change men in the biggest ways.
I don’t believe a single thing either of them says. He was fine staying with her while she was unfit parent. Never called for help instead defended her and lied. Now their not together and you want to tell everything. Get off the internet and call CPS.
My goodness, this man is stirring up a whole lot of drama over his sneaky link. Wasn’t he in a “committed” relationship and Jenny from the Swamp was his client/side piece. I recall his “real” girlfriend wanted to press charges over her mail tampering. Now they were playing happy families?!
Oh, you sad little sweet pea, everyone knows she’s not in the running for Mother of the Year. No one finds your truth bombs surprising. It’s time for you to write your self published exposé and crawl back under your rock.
They are both POS and he lied to protect her several times so his credibility is a little tarnished but hers is absolutely tarnished so I completely believe everything he says she’s done
Ah yes, “a plant” we watched you go to rehab for. Ok hun.
Trash, trash, ya both trash.!
Does she not know that a drug can be a plant and still be a drug?
Cocaine comes form plants and so does heroin. She’s an idiot.
Heroin comes from a plant too, that’s why she thought it was okay to shoot up on camera back in the day.
She’s so obviously doing way more than just smoking weed but she’s going to keep on lying.
At this point I’m no longer surprised about anything negative/damaging that Jenelle does to her kids. If someone were to follow her around, 24/7, I bet does several cr*ppy and probably illegal things to her kids. All she does well is pays the pills and takes them tot restaurants. Nothing else is good..
I’m not the least bit surprised by all of these accusations about Jenelle. We’ve all known for years what a horrible parent she is. What bugs me is why the hell doesn’t he file reports to the Children’s Service Division, or whatever it’s called in Vegas? Maybe they wouldn’t ignore these serious issues with her parenting the way they did in North Carolina! I mean, come on! Everyone knows her reputation with neglecting her kids and her drug addiction. Why does he just give interviews but not do something important like get her in trouble and possibly lose her kids? That would show her!!
CPS already knows all of this about her, she has an extensive file. She’s already been investigated at least once while being out there. It’s the reason she had to go get Kaiser after shipping him off. CPS can’t question him from states away and he had to be questioned after the other incidents (especially any involving Jace and the schools). They are still, very much, in the system out there, the system just doesn’t much care to do its job properly, as a whole, and is extremely slow to respond.
I’ve always believed that one of the main reasons she moved to Vegas is because they are just as lax there (and by they, I mean CPS, family court, and most associated with them) as NC is about actually doing their jobs. There are some states where this whole system simply works better, for a myriad of reasons. There are some states where they manage to fail nearly every step of the way, NC is one of those states, as is Nevada, and even more specifically, Clark County where Vegas happens to be. It’s notoriously lax when it comes to the protection of children.
CPS very much can go state to state depending on the charge and how badly they want to speak to the children. She sent Kaiser to Tennessee thinking she could avoid him being interviewed. If Nevada CPS wanted to, they could contact Tennessee CPS to interview him and it would be up to DORIS to allow the interview. That’s why she brought him back to Nevada. So they’d need her approval to interview him.
I mean, they SHOULD be able to simply rely on local offices, but they won’t, and they don’t, they require whoever currently has legal custody to do the traveling (if necessary) or make the child available for the interview. Since Doris never had legal custody, she wouldn’t have been able to consent to begin with even if they did things this way (which is really how it should be done). You can’t give legal consent in cases like that without a legal order stating you have that ability. I only know that bit because of one particular case where the paperwork was still being finalized and a lot of things we couldn’t legally consent to, yet, because of it (stupid, I know, but it’s how things work).
We have had to travel quite a bit for different interviews from one state to another because we don’t always live in the state where one of the children has an open case file. I wish it worked the way it should work, but it rarely, if ever, does. Most of the cases involved for us, have been very bad (including extensive abuse) so, it would’ve made far more sense to not have us travel and instead use representatives from the local offices to do in person interviews. It just doesn’t work that way, or at least never has in any case I’ve seen.
Then it hasn’t worked in YOUR case, but they CAN and HAVE done so in the past. AND they don’t have to have parental consent to speak to a child regarding a case. Which is why they show up at schools when a parent has been accused of abuse. Which means, YES, Doris could have made sure the interview happened if approached.
It doesn’t/hasn’t worked that way any case I’ve been part of, not just with children that I have fostered or adopted, but all cases, for many years, across numerous states. Can it happen? Sure, but it’s highly unlikely, like slim to non and slim just walked out for a pack of smokes.
It really isn’t as easy to get two departments in two different states to actually work together at all. I wish it were different, honestly, because it is a pain in the ass that it doesn’t. Just because they CAN do something doesn’t mean they will. More times than not, they’ll say it costs too much (really, as idiotic as it sounds, that’s usually the excuse) or that caseloads are too heavy. It’s one, of many, issues when you’re dealing with cases that cross state lines. It’s hard enough just to get different offices to send case files over-and that takes seconds, at best. Most offices already have ridiculous caseloads, they won’t willingly add to it unless they’re forced to. We have had to fight NC tooth and nail just to get records sent to another office. Nevada is just as lax as they are about it. It’s not a knock on CPS workers, it’s a knock on the whole damn system, which needs a serious overhaul.
At this point, whatever you say. You always come on these posts “full of knowledge” even though you’re wrong. Sooooo, okay hunny, you’re right. Whatever you need to hear, kay?
I imagine one problem is there’s many Jenelle’s in any city, in any state, at any given time.
Since her kids are fed, have a roof and attend school fairly regularly, she’s very low on the list of priorities. Unfortunately.
But yes, he should have been calling the authorities. I imagine an on- the- spot drug test would answer a lot of questions and lead to a lot of solutions.
Oh man I bet the lawyer David’s lawyer Jenelle 2.0 paid for is loving this beef! Screen shot galore my man! Jenelle defending herself…..yup she’s on drugs for sure
Jenelle thinking that saying every ex of hers accuses her of taking drugs is a flex 😂That’s almost as good as the time she thought she had clapped back at haters by saying she had “only” been in jail three times.
I do have to question though why if AugustSeptemberOctober knows she’s getting HIGH HIGH and drinking and letting her non licensed 15 year old drive, why wasn’t he contacting CPS?
Exactly! You weren’t too concerned when you praised her to the media….just sayin
Mmhmm!! And he protected Jenelle from the police before.
They’re both trash, but I believe March. Jenelle doesn’t have a maternal bone in her body.
March? You mean November? 😉
She means Daniel Miranda.
He needs to use his government name and not same stage name.
Thank you @Ashley for always adding his government name. Does Daniel know his criminal history still follows him with or without his alias?
He’s been “March” for six days now. If this beef is still going on next month, I’ll have to find a way to differentiate him from Catelynn’s mother.
It’s March 5.
Shouldn’t Jenelle be filing for divorce in NC??
Or is she too high and drunk to come back here and straighten out her shit?
Janelle telling August he needs “to focus on not hitting women…” Now I know you should never put your hands on anyone but I doubt the Pope himself would be able to resist smacking this POS if he had been putting up with her for even a day! She pushes people and she doesn’t know when to stop and she’s not exactly hooking up with any Sir Galahads. Just waiting for the day she ends up in prison and can no longer torment her children.
Best comment ever
I’m sorry but I couldn’t do it. I would be in jail.
I wish I could reach thru the internet.
I mean…she sucks and he suck’s but I believe him.