About a month ago, Jenelle Evans celebrated some surprising personal news:
She now has full custody of her son Jace.
Since birth, the 13-year-old had been living with the former reality star’s mother, Barbara, due to her mother’s history of substance abuse and irresponsible behavior.
Now that Janelle is taking care of her oldest, though, she’s hearing from someone who is unexpected… but also important to the young man’s life.
On Friday, Andrew Lewis spoke to The Sun about the lack of any kind of relationship with Jess.
And who is Andrew Lewis?
He is the father of Jais.
“Janel, Barbara, whoever’s listening right now… just let Jess see me,” Lewis said during a rare video interview with The Sun. “Let me see Jess.”
The 16 And Pregnant alum – who welcomed Jess with his high school girlfriend in August 2009 – hasn’t seen Jess since the baby was six months old.
He told that his family is also pressurizing him to have a relationship with the teenager again.
“My cousin, my nephew, my niece, my sister. You know. Just let me see Jess,” Lewis said, while his mother Diana Lewis, who joined via telephone, said she[wants] to be a part of [Jace’s] life.”
“But they don’t want us, and I don’t understand it,” she said.
“Problems, yes, I’m sure. Jenelle had hers, Andrew had hers. Life goes on. Get over it. Grow up.”
Lewis claimed that he has attempted to connect with Janelle about their son over the years, but nothing has come of it.
The mother of three – who shares son Kaiser with ex Nathan Griffith and daughter Ainsley with husband David Easton – previously revealed that Andrew “signed over their custody.”
We haven’t heard her name in any relevant capacity in over a decade — and we’re a celebrity gossip site that covers all things teen mom.
“He never comes to see his son, although he still calls and says he wants to,” Evans wrote in his 2017 memoir, Read Between the Lines. “That never happens … I don’t know if he’ll ever be in his son’s life again.”
But Lewis, as you might expect, has a different take on the situation.
“Let me talk to him. Give me some … It’s not MTV bull-tee anymore, it’s reality,” he told The Son of Evans.
“Stop being on cloud nine and drop the f—k down to reality, okay?
“That’s where I’m at. You’re not. I’m not trying to be rude to you, I just want to let you know. Please, let me meet Jess. That’s all. That’s all I ever Wanted to have.