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Jenelle Evans' Ex August Keen Claims Jail May 'Teach Her' a Lesson After She Tossed Out His Ex's Mail: 'She Needs to Grow Up'
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August Keen said jail may teach Jenelle Evans 'the lesson she needs.'
Feb. 11 2025, Published 11:10 a.m. ET
August Keen — who in the midst of a contentious split from Jenelle Evans — exclusively spoke to OK! about why his ex-girlfriend Cristal Herrera filed a police report against Evans.
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Jenelle Evans was accused of throwing out August Keen's ex-girlfriend's mail.
The Ashley’s Reality Roundup confirmed Herrera went to the cops over allegations Evans threw out her mail while she had been living with the estranged couple.
The report noted that “she doesn’t know what was thrown away,” but “she was waiting for important mail.” It also mentions the police instructed her to file a report with the postmaster.
Evans took to X to defend herself, claiming she never met Herrera in real life and they never resided together. “IDK what mail she’s talking about,” she claimed. “I don’t get her mail delivered to my house. I don’t throw any mail away unless it’s mine, but making up stories is falsifying police reports.”
OK! obtained an exclusive alleged message between the Teen Mom 2 alum and Herrera where the former told a different story.
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Jenelle Evans allegedly admitted to throwing out Cristal Herrera's mail in a text message.
“Hello there,” Evans said in the alleged message. “You left some mail in his car and I threw it away for you.” Herrera responded sarcastically, telling Evans she’s “so sweet” before telling her to “grow up” and that she’s “too old to be acting like a teenager.” “Yeah just like your pics you want to blast all over the internet,” Evans retorted. Keen’s ex asked what pictures she was talking about before asking to be left alone and blocking Evans.
Keen spoke to OK! to explain more about what’s going on.
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August Keen shared he doesn't want to see Jenelle Evans go to jail.
“Cristal is pissed that Jenelle is lying about everything,” he shared. “She would have left her alone, but Jenelle keeps attacking me and since Cristal is someone who cares for me, she doesn't appreciate her behavior toward me — especially because she knows how close me and Jenelle were, and she thinks it's a huge stab in the back.”
He clarified a part of the original story on the police report, noting Herrera isn’t claiming to have lived with him and Jenelle, but rather she lived with him for “two years” and not all of her mail was forwarded to her new address.
“When I picked up my mail, I threw it in the car without looking at it,” he dished on how Evans came into contact with Herrera’s mail in the first place. “Jenelle cleaned my car and saw the mail the next day. She told me she threw her mail away, and that annoyed me, but what can I do? I apologized to Jenelle.” While he acknowledged Herrera needing to file the report with the police and the postmaster, he asked her to “fall back and slow down” because he “doesn’t want Jenelle to go to jail because she has kids to raise.”
“I’m not a monster like she is,” he said. “I can think normally and understand consequences and, if Jenelle goes to jail, the kids will suffer because she is their source of income — and the kids love her very much.”
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August Keen shared he is 'not a monster.'
While he’s playing nice for now, Evans’ former boyfriend acknowledged if she continues “her diabolical antics,” he will have no other choice but to get revenge. “Jail might teach her the lesson because she needs to grow up and love herself,” he added. “She will have two felonies on her record, and she will go to jail for both wiping the [my] phone and [tossing] Cristal’s mail, both of which are federal crimes.”
Keen dished everyone keeps telling him to “call CPS and put her in jail” but, for now, he’s not taking any action out of respect for her kids. However, he said if he inevitably feels that would be the better option “in order to make her grow up and change for herself and the kids,” he won’t hesitate to “continue with next steps.”
Regardless of the situation at hand, he said he would “never call CPS on Jenelle."
“The kids and Jenelle and I became an instant family,” he added of their time together, “and that's not an easy thing to figure out. But the kids are happy children.”