David Eason Defends Killing Jenelle Evans' Dog In Unsettling Video

Jenelle Evans and David Eason are telling their side of the story.

In the first of a multi-part video series, Evans and Eason break their silence on the controversies in which they were embroiled in 2019 — from the tragic death of Evans’ pet dog, Nugget, who Eason confessed to killing late last year, to the tailspinning custody battle that caused the couple to temporarily lose possession of their children, including their daughter Ensley, 3, the Teen Mom 2 star’s son Kaiser, 6, and Eason’s daughter, Maryssa, 13.

Evans opened the lengthy clip accusing Child Protective Services of subjecting her family to “distress” and “trauma,” and revealed she’s using this video “to expose the truth.” Moments later, Eason gets on camera to explain and justify why he decided to kill his wife’s French Bulldog after it bit Ensley.

“She was a loving dog to me, but she was not loving toward our kids at all,” the 28-year-old recalled. “I loved the dog, the kids loved it. But she didn’t love the kids. Any time we were taking a video of the kids riding their bikes, playing outside, we’d have to delete the video, not even be able to post it because she didn’t play nice. She would bite their feet, she would bite the wheels on her bicycle.”

As Eason explained — and as shown in the video — when Ensley tried to give Nugget a kiss on the head, the dog snapped at her. (The clip also shows Ensley’s reddened face from the incident.) Considering it wasn’t Nugget’s first time reacting this way, the incident proved to be the final straw for Eason.

“I took it upon myself to put the dog down, and that’s the way my family has always done it when the dog bites somebody,” he explained. “There’s been dogs in the past that bit me and my dad put the dog down. … A lot of people around here — if your dog goes running in their yard, they’ll just shoot it. They’re not gonna call you and tell you. … It happens a lot.”

Although he was only acting to protect his family, Eason said, “I regret it, but sometimes that’s the way it works. I wish it hadn’t have had to happen that way.”

The confessional clip comes just months after Eason was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon in June.

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