He’s scary, violent, aggressive, rude, controlling, homophobic, transphobic, selfish, inconsiderate … the list of his terrible attributes goes on and on and on.
Like, we can’t think of a single positive thing to say about the guy, except maybe that it’s impressive how he continues to keep getting worse every single day.
He’s just so, so bad, and in a surprising new development, Jenelle has admitted that she’s aware of that.
It’s just that she doesn’t care.
Dang It, David Jenelle began dating David in the fall of 2015. Things have been going downhill ever since.
A Change? In the beginning of their relationship, a lot of casual Teen Mom 2 fans believed that David was good for Jenelle because she wasn’t getting arrested so much anymore, and because they got together about a month after she broke up with Nathan Griffith, and hey, who wouldn’t look good next to that guy, right?
Meanwhile … (MTV) Hardcore viewers decided to look into the guy a little further though, and what they found … well, it was bad
A Bit of a History It turns out that David’s mug shot collection is almost as impressive as Jenelle’s — he’s been arrested numerous times for charges like breaking and entering, possession of drug paraphernalia, and a few DUIs. He’s served two separate jail sentences, both for four months.
Bad News And in some official court documents, David’s ex and the mother of his son claimed that he’d been choked her and threatened to kill her while she was pregnant. He was found not guilty of any crimes, but remember, for a long time he wasn’t able to see his son because of a restraining order, so it would seem that a judge determined that something was amiss.
Again: The Worst (Getty Images for MTV) So yeah, not such a great guy, right? And we’re only on his life BEFORE Jenelle so far.
Problems with Nathan (Getty) As we saw on David’s first season of Teen Mom 2, he had a very, very big issue with Nathan from the get-go. Maybe because he was Jenelle’s most recent ex, maybe because they had Kaiser together and, unlike Jace, Jenelle had custody of him and had to deal with Nathan on a regular basis, or maybe just because he’s an insecure jackass.
Super Healthy (Getty) Whatever the reason, David wasted no time in insisting that Jenelle and Nathan go through him for everything concerning Kaiser. Because that’s just what good boyfriends do, right? They refuse to allow you to speak directly to your child’s father after you’ve been dating them for a few months and instead handle everything themselves. Totally normal.
Good One, Barb This is a good example of why Barbara Evans has repeatedly stated that David is Jenelle’s worst soulmate ever — because he’s so controlling. Other stuff too, but man, David’s need to control every single aspect of Jenelle’s life has stood out for a long, long time.
Poor Kaiser David is so awful and he’s always had such a big problem with Nathan that he’s always seemed to have something against Kaiser, too. Who could forget back in his early days on the show when he called poor Kaiser, who was maybe two years old at the time, “a screaming little bitch”?
Yikes Oh, and remember that one episode where Barbara came over to Jenelle’s house to see Jace playing outside unsupervised, and Jenelle stayed locked in her bedroom while David came out and accused Barb of trespassing and then proceeded to call the police on her? Seriously, this guy …
Wonderful! And of course there was that classic moment when Jenelle got pregnant with David’s baby less than a year after they first met, and her pregnancy was announced in a police report. What joy that man has brought to her life, right?
What Romance! When they got married last year, they nearly broke up right before the wedding because he thought she was being lazy with the preparations and she felt like he wasn’t taking enough time to talk to her about her feelings. Their fight was so bad that she even took her engagement ring off. And if that wasn’t a sign of how things would go for them, who knows what would be?
It Never Ends More ways in which David is terrible … shortly after that nightmare wedding was when they attended the taping for the Teen Mom New Year’s Eve special, where David thought an appropriate reaction to being cut off at the bar would be to loudly announce he’d be leaving to get his own booze, then to pull out a pocket knife and stab a bunch of balloons when he couldn’t figure out how to walk through them. Another totally normal, not at all alarming thing that he’s done.
… No That season’s reunion was filmed the same weekend — that’s when he called Dr. Drew a f-g and made Jenelle leave early because of his senseless rage.
SUCH a Mess Looking back on it, David really ramped up his awfulness last fall, huh? This was also when Nathan’s mother, Doris, first filed for emergency custody of Kaiser with claims that she had proof that David had been abusing the boy. She even said that Kaiser had told her that he’d punched him in the head.
This is Exhausting Doris eventually gave up, but of course she’s giving it another go now — just last weekend, she refused to turn Kaiser over to Jenelle and David after her visit with him because she’d seen suspicious bruising on him. Nathan claimed that Kaiser had told him that David had hit him with a stick.
Come On But after a quick CPS investigation, complete with drug tests, Kaiser was returned to Jenelle and David. Because justice is a lie.
Where Does It End? Since we’re jumping around a little bit, it’s also worth mentioning that David is responsible for getting Jenelle into guns, and without him, there’s a good chance she wouldn’t have been able to pull a gun on a stranger after following him to his house during a serious case of road rage.
Also This And while we’re talking about guns, of course we can’t forget that a debate about guns led to David’s awful homophobic tweets — the ones where he said he’d teach his kids to stay away from gay people because “if you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas,” among other bits of hateful nonsense. And those tweets led to his firing.
Wow So that’s a lot, right? And that’s by no means a complete history of David’s many, many faults and bad moments. Not even close. But, for a quick recap, he’s an ignorant bigot, he’s been accused of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend, he’s been arrested several times, he’s been filmed being mean (at best) to Jenelle’s children and very controlling towards her. He’s not a good dude, and that’s a fact.
Oh Hell No But don’t you dare try to come up to Jenelle Evans Eason with some facts!
Riiiiiight Jenelle recently shared this nauseating photo with the caption “‘You make it easy, lovin’ up on you.’ #ToTheMoonAndBack,” because they’re trying to make “to the mooon and back” some hashtag to signify their love for each other and their children.
Same Someone commented on the photo with “I’m sorry but there’s something about that guy I don’t like,” and … yeah, that’s a good observation.
Classic Jenelle’s response? “And IDGAF.” (In case you’re unfamiliar with the way kids are talking these days, “IDGAF” stands for “I don’t give a f-ck.” Because of course she doesn’t).
Hmmm … It just seems like a really strange way to respond to something like that, especially when no one would bat an eye if she didn’t respond at all. She has nearly three million followers on Instagram, and many of them aren’t following her because they love her, you know? It wouldn’t be a big deal to just let that comment slide.
Oh, Jenelle It’s also interesting that she’s no longer trying to defend David — remember when she used to go on and on about what a good man he was, and how she’d never dated such a great guy? It’s funny how she’s gone from that to basically saying “yeah, I know he’s a creep, but whatever.”
Great Point One of her followers pretty much pointed out how strange her stance is now by telling her “It’s obvious you dgaf, your poor children … what a prize you have picked for them.”
Well, Yeah Another follower pointed out “Maybe you should gaf.”
What a Burn One particularly savage person simply told Jenelle “Jace was right,” no doubt referring to the recent scene from Teen Mom 2 in which Jace told Barbara “Mommy and David are pieces of sh-t.”
In Conclusion … We didn’t really need Jenelle to directly say that she doesn’t give a f-ck — her actions for the past decade or so have made that pretty clear. But for her to say that right now about David, when he’s been accused of beating her son … it’s just not a good look, to say the least.