Jenny McCarthy’s son called cops on her for texting & driving, she took away his phone

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I finally gave in and got an iPhone this spring. I needed to be able to text my friends back quicker, because my old phone was too hard to use. Now that I have a decent phone, I struggle with not checking it when I’m driving. I’ve promised myself that I will never text and drive and that I will not check the phone even when stopped at a light. I see other people texting and driving all the time, and I’ve seen my friends do it. (I will tell them to cut it out.) Even though texting and driving is illegal almost everywhere, it’s hard to resist. I hope I will never do it, and I hope I can teach my son not to text and drive or even check his phone. One moment of not paying attention while you’re driving and you can seriously injure or kill yourself or someone else. Cars are no joke.

Loudmouth Jenny McCarthy apparently told her 12 year-old son, Evan, that it’s illegal to text and drive. The kid took her so seriously that he called the cops on her when he witnessed her doing it. Evan is autistic, and from what I understand people on the autistic spectrum can take things literally and see them in black and white. So what did Jenny do? She threw the kid’s phone out the window.

On her show, Dirty, Sexy, Funny, McCarthy said that one time she was texting a [sic] driving, which has become a big no-no on the road. Her son, well aware of this legal snafu, decided to call the police from his own cell phone to report the crime.

He said to the men in uniform, “‘My mom is texting and driving right now.’ True story.”

Because texting and driving is a huge offense, the TV personality knew there was only one thing she could do not to get arrested or receive a ticket – throw her son’s phone out the window.

She also let told her listeners about the time she snuck out for a cigarette, only to be caught by her law-loving son once again.

“He called 911 and said, ‘I am alone in the house. My mom abandoned me,’” McCarthy said. “I go back in the house and it’s 911 and they’re like, ‘Your child just called. Is there an emergency?’ I’m like, ‘What? No! Everything is fine.’”

Fortunately for the future-Mrs. Wahlberg, she has yet to be obtained [sic] as a result of her son’s complaints.

[From Radar Online]

I get that Jenny needs little anecdotes to tell on her show so she can get press, but this is ridiculous. Yet again she’s violating her son’s privacy by telling an embarrassing story about him. Also, this makes her come across as an a-hole as usual. Her son called the cops so instead of explaining to the 911 operator that he’s autistic, or instead of owning up to her mistake and getting a ticket, she ditched the poor kid’s phone. What kind of lesson is that teaching him? Don’t tell on mommy or you’ll pay and she’ll tell the whole world about it.

The “mommy abandoned me” story sounds like she’s not telling Evan when she’s leaving the house. Even if she’s just popping out to have a smoke, she needs to explain it to him so that he understands.

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  1. Kiddo says:

    The kid did the right thing. He might be autistic, but he has more common sense than his mother.

    • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

      This woman should seriously consider shutting up.

      • Size Does Matter says:

        Agree, especially because I think she’s taking some less dramatic and/or funny truth and blowing it up into something more for attention. Who would actually throw their kid’s phone out the window?

      • JenniferJustice says:

        Exactly! For a an autistic child to have a beloved possession yanked away and thrown out a car never to be seen again – I’ll bet he went ballistic and unneccessarily. If it’s true, she’s a jerk. If she’s embellishing, she’s a liar, and still a jerk for using her child for material. Sounds to me like she teaches him one thing – what’s right, but does as she pleases because the rules don’t apply to her. Must be one confused kid. And for the record, I can honestly say, I have never once texted while driving. I find it reprehensible – no justification ever. Pull over if a communication is that important.

      • K says:

        People with autism often attach huge significance to objects that matter to them. She’s horrible, I’m sorry but this really upsets me. My son needs us to keep his things safe and every single care provider he has had, even before he was diagnosed, instinctively understood that and would promise to store his lego models until he’d finished with them, even.

        A core symptom can be an inability to screen out most of the noise and activity in the world around the person, so much as small kids need security objects, so do possessions ground many autistic people. It grounds my son and offers him a sense of stability to have his possessions reliably there and where he left them, in a world he often finds exhaustingly, confusingly fast-paced. To throw a phone, which is so important to all of us but even more so to him… wow. Just wow. The lack of empathy is so upsetting. My son needs extra careful and extra mindful treatment, not less. And she thinks doing this to him is funny? The other thing: the paed told us that children on the spectrum, if intelligent, know that they can’t gauge risk accurately, so normal fears loom hugely large. My son questioned me intensely on what would happen if giant waves swamped us, if food supplies ran out, if I went blind driving the car… so to tell him how dangerous texting and driving is and then not doing it?! He once sobbed when I jay-walked. In a village, where the crossing is only there for the school and it was late in the evening, and jay-walking is legal here, anyway. All he knew was the road safety we’d drilled into him, and I was flouting it. He was terrified. No wonder her son called 911.

        I would say some people should get puppies instead of children, but I actually really like dogs, too.

    • TheOriginalKitten says:

      I cannot imagine what it’s like having an overgrown child for a mother.

      Makes me so thankful that my mom was a MOTHER, not a self-involved, attention-seeking woman-child.

      • Ag says:

        i know, right. how HORRIFYING would it be to be a teenager (which is such an awkward phase to begin with) with a mother who constantly acts like this? poor kid.

      • Trashaddict says:

        Dayum! The special diet worked! He is turning out smarter than she is!

    • I Choose Me says:

      Right? I can’t stand this woman but I want to give Evan all the hugs.

    • (The original, not CDAN) Violet says:

      This.

      Texting and driving is incredibly dangerous. If Jenny had an ounce of sense, she would be ashamed of herself and proud of her son. Props to Evan for trying to keep the roads safe from his irresponsible mother.

  2. Delta Juliet says:

    So, I’m confused. I thought she cured him? Was she wrong all this time????

    • Badirene says:

      Pity she didn’t cure him of having a jackass for a mother.

    • Lisa says:

      Amen, Delta! She’s full of shit! Her son is totally on the spectrum, she’s the one who needs the f-ing help!

    • ella says:

      I know! Last we heard, he was either cured or had been misdiagnosed in the first place. Now all of a sudden we’re getting daily “Evan is autistic” anecdotes.

    • Hayley says:

      THANK you! I was just coming here to say that! I’m legit confused, I thought she said she cured him with macrobiotic food or veganism or something. Such a liar, she needs to get her stories straight.

      • paranormalgirl says:

        I thought she said he was never autistic to begin with, just misdiagnosed. She really should get her stories straight. People might think she’s a liar. Oh wait.

    • Deedee says:

      I thought she smoked e-cigarettes (Blu). Why did she need to leave the house to smoke?

  3. Lucy2 says:

    I hope when they got home, he called and reported her for littering too.

  4. launicaangelina says:

    I can’t help but wonder about how involved Evan’s father is. I remember him from the Weird Science TV show.

    • mayamae says:

      Supposedly, he couldn’t handle the autism and skipped out. I’m inclined to believe it.

      • launicaangelina says:

        Oh wow… Really? That’s horrible.

      • RobN says:

        I’m inclined to believe that he couldn’t handle what an idiot he’d had a child with and skipped out.

      • It happens too frequently. Data shows that when a child has a physical disability or other special needs, the father is the more likely of the two parents to leave.

  5. eliza says:

    I don’t buy her story because even if she threw his phone out the window, the 911 dispatch would have a record of the phone number and would have investigated.

    Another story from a thirsty z-list celeb.

    As far as texting and driving. I am not so sure what is soooooooo damn important in anyone’s lives that people feel the need to text and drive. As if the world at large hinges on that text, that minute. Are texts and returning them that important people are willing to risk their lives and the lives of others? There are some HORRIBLE stories of one word texts having caused fatal accidents. Not worth it. Pull over if it is that urgent.

    • Kiddo says:

      Thank you. Nothing is that important.

      • eliza says:

        I have a friend who is a real estate agent and she gave me a ride to the airport not long ago. While I appreciated the ride, I did NOT appreciate the three times she almost wrecked while texting. I said ” WTF. Could you either pull over and deal with those or let me out and I will call a cab? !” All offended that I dared say anything, she said ” I am a BUSY agent and time is money” UGH! Needless to say I will NOT be catching an airport ride from her in the future. The funny thing is she BEGGED to take me to the airport. Maybe she was trying to get rid of me on a permanent basis?!

      • lisa2 says:

        Sad thing is if you have ever seen those tragic stories of people dying when they are on the phone; posting their last messages..
        I don’t have a “smart phone”. I’m one of the rare breeds that just uses my phone for emergencies and calling once in a blue moon. When you are not someone that is plugged in 24/7 you see how obsessed people are with talking or playing with their phones. It is the craziest thing and sad that they can’t interact with the person right in front of them and spend more time on the phone.
        I won’t ever let that be me.

      • Lucy2 says:

        Ugh, that’s awful Eliza! Maybe next time remind her she won’t be such a busy agent if she’s dead or in jail!

        I can listen to and dictate texts through the sync system in my car, but even that can be a little distracting.

      • eliza says:

        @Lucy- The odd thing is she had that capability of syncing like you BUT chose to do the texts on her phone.

        She is a great person BUT even not distracted, an awful driver. I seriously offer to drive OR met at destinations in separate cars. When she drives, between her texts, her phone conversations and super poor driving skills, I am always strapped in and white knuckling it, saying a prayer! Lol.

      • msw says:

        Professionals who work in their cars are more likely than teenagers to text and drive. Its sad.

      • Kiddo says:

        @msw, True, but I don’t recall giving them consent to injure or kill me due to important business. Do it on a road, alone, with some cliffs.

      • Lucinda says:

        A friend was driving me and my kids (and her kids) to the zoo and started answering texts, long texts, while driving. It took me telling her to stop 3 times and finally saying, “my kids are in the car and you are endangering them” before she finally quit. I never rode in a car with her again.

      • msw says:

        @kiddo, believe me, I am in no way excusing it. It is unacceptable and stupid. I worked from my car too. For business, I pulled over or waited until I was done driving. Its not worth the risk, and no one deserves to be hit by a distracted driver.

      • Kiddo says:

        @msw, I realized that you weren’t advocating for it.

    • Nicolette says:

      There was a sad story a couple of months ago about young woman who had to text while she was driving that the song “Happy” made her happy. Moments later she was involved in a fatal crash. Incredibly ironic and tragic. Had she only waited until she reached her destination none of it would’ve happened. Nothing is so urgent that you must text and drive, and if it is pull over.

    • sonalaceae (Nighty) says:

      + 1 billion.. I never use my phone while driving, even if someone calls me.. They’ll have to wait until I park the car… But ever since I saw a guy driving a van while toothpicking his teeth, nothing surprises me anymore. People are so oblivious of the fact that a car is actually a weapon…
      The kid was so right, and her phone should be the one being thrown out he window, not the kid’s…

      *sigh*

      @lisa2 , I’m also one of those rare people who doesn’t have iphones, ipads or whatever… let’s form a club… 😀

    • Petee says:

      Lisa2.I am not a phone person either.I have one because you need one these days.I can certainly do without all the texting and picture stuff.I guess we are just old school.lol.

    • zinjojo says:

      Thanks Eliza, this is so true. Every day I see people texting and driving, and it’s always obvious because they’re the idiots who are driving at erratic speeds and are weaving around and can’t stay in their lanes. I have a 16 year old with a learner’s permit and we talk about not using your phone in the car this all the time!

      And Jenny McCarthy is a self-absorbed jerk. Here’s part of her quote: “We’re driving in the car and of course I text and drive…” Of course I text and drive?!! And she throws her autistic son’s phone out of the car? That would be upsetting for any child, and for a child on the spectrum, I would think it could be fairly traumatic. I feel for him.

    • I Choose Me says:

      Thank you!

      I’m also going to rant about pedestrians walking and texting. Look where the frig you’re going. Don’t almost walk into my car then yell at me.

    • Lucinda says:

      The problem with the smart phones (I’ve been guilty of this I’m afraid) is not the texting for me but the apps. A music app or a map app can distract me before I even realize it. You think the music app is just like adjusting your radio but it really isn’t.

      • sonalaceae (Nighty) says:

        The problem is not the smartphones, it’s people knowing when to use them or not… (nothing against what you’ve said)….

    • here's Wilson says:

      I work for 911… and unfortunately if mom through the phone out of the window in these circumstances that would have been the end of it

  6. Miffy says:

    Given my experience with my autistic niece (even taking into account the spectrum and where a child with autism may be on it), I would imagine that firing one of their belongings out of a moving vehicle would be incredibly distressing for them… Or any child for that matter!! Or any person of any age for that matter.

    What was the point of that little anecdote? That she’s a quirky, flawed mom who makes mistakes? No, you’re an asshole who has no problem throwing another human’s belongings out of a moving car because you were doing something you shouldn’t have been.

    • lisa2 says:

      And what if it hit another car or some passerbyer.. What if the broken pieces punchers someone’s tire.
      You don’t throw things out of windows. Take the phone and then have a conversation with your child.

      I wasn’t upset with her about that last story of bullying. Some children that are autistic don’t know when they are being dissed by another child. That could have begun a good dialogue. But Jenny doesn’t seem to be the best messenger for any real issues

    • Nicolette says:

      Many children on the spectrum including my son, are very attached to their tech gadgets. Obsessed really. Throwing one of their phones, ipods, tablets or game device out of a moving car window would be incredibly distressing and might (God forbid) cause them to react by opening the door to try and retrieve it without thinking just as an instinctual reaction. Very dangerous thing for her to have done.

    • Audrey says:

      My cousin is 24 years old

      He still has large Rubbermaid bins filled with every toy he has ever owned.

      My aunt tried to get him to give ONE away to a friend’s baby and he was physically ill from the stress of thinking about it

      Having his belonging tossed would likely be extremely distressing for him

  7. Audrey says:

    Thanks for telling everyone about how you endanger your son’s life

    Texting and driving is way more dangerous than vaccines

    • Belle Epoch says:

      Preach, AUDREY!

      Hard to fathom how stupid she is. She really needs to shut up. Glad the kid is getting the correct info from someone (clearly not her!).

    • Anthea says:

      Absolutely.

      She’s a ghastly woman. I can’t think of a single thing she’s done that is worthwhile.

      I do like the sound of her son though. He seems like a cute kid. I hope she doesn’t mess him up too much.

    • raptor says:

      As is smoking.

      • Audrey says:

        Yupp :/

        But vaccines!

      • janie says:

        I’ve always like her and sort of defended her, this is ridiculous! Why would you put your child in danger and then laugh about it on the radio? This woman has mush for brains.

      • Trashaddict says:

        Haha speaking of which, I saw a woman in the lane next to me texting AND smoking. Needless to say, I put as much distance between us as possible.

    • Miffy says:

      That’s such an excellent point I want to fist bump your comment on the screen.

    • Lucinda says:

      Exactly! I can’t stand this woman.

  8. itsnotthatserious says:

    I love that boy already

  9. Annika says:

    Poor Evan 🙁

  10. MrsBPitt says:

    Can someone please sew her mouth shut! She is a f–king moron! I officially want to elect JM as the biggest famewhore on the planet!!!!!! STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR KID, ASSHOLE!!!!!!!

  11. Tammy says:

    She might be embellishing these stories because if my aunt threw out my cousin’s (hes autistic) cell phone, he’d be so upset for days it could set him back. It’s not easy to raise an autistic child & it’s not that simple to “explain” anything to an autistic child.

    • Nicolette says:

      My son is very high functioning and takes everything as being literal. We have to teach him about nuances, innuendo, sarcasm, expressions etc. It’s a challenge because you have to keep reiterating everything over and over. Everything is black and white and it’s the grey area that they have trouble with. Her son reacted the way I would expect a child on the spectrum to. She told him something was illegal, he witnessed her doing it and did what he thought was right.

  12. Bernice says:

    She is using him like a prop. He is going to grow up and be unhappy with her. Seems like narcissism on her part.

  13. Lilyvanilli says:

    I thought she cured him through diet of his autism spectrum disorder?

    • lisa says:

      yes this

      he was autistic
      then he was cured
      then he was misdiagnosed and never had it
      now i guess he’s autistic again because it fits her made up oversharing attention grabbing stories

      whatever is or isnt up with evan, i wish she would let him have some anonymity

  14. AlexandraJane says:

    I am sure she loves her son, but she is coming across as a crappy mum, some kids need extra care and attention to details. Not to be used as a highlarious punch line for her shows

  15. Neelyo says:

    I live in NYC and it infuriates me when I see people texting and walking. Most people can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, like they can read and write while moving? It’s also incredibly selfish to think that everyone else will look out for you because you’re too busy to do it yourself. Driving and texting is a different level of stupid.

    I feel sorry for any kid who has celebrity parents, but this one especially.

    • Nicolette says:

      It frustrating being a driver and having someone who is too engrossed in their stupid phone to take a moment and pick their head up as they cross the street. Can’t tell you how many times I will have a green light and they just keep walking out into the street totally oblivious.

    • TheOriginalKitten says:

      Oh my god–YES to both of you! A girl almost walked straight into me this morning because she was staring at her phone.
      I mean, is it THAT hard to periodically look up when you’re texting and walking? If you can’t text and still pay attention to your surroundings then don’t text!!
      Same with driving and talking on the phone or texting. Just don’t do it. Drivers in Boston are dangerous enough WITHOUT the damn phone.

      You said it perfectly Neelyo–the most frustrating part of those scenarios is that the person who is texting is basically telling all of us to look out for HER/HIM but taking no responsibility to look out for us or to pay attention to anything except for their phones.

      Makes me so f*cking mad.

    • insomniac says:

      I refuse to move out of the way of the walkers-and-texters. If you can’t be bothered to look up to see where you’re going, I can’t be bothered to avoid bumping into you.

      • Neelyo says:

        that’s my attitude too. I don’t move out of the way either and my bony shoulders will hurt like hell when i clock you.

    • Ange says:

      I always stop walking and move out of the way if I have to text because I can’t stand aimless meandering and I refuse to add to it.

  16. hutter says:

    She might just be making it up. She was on Conan years ago and told a RIDICULOUS story about breaking into the Pope’s private apartment in the Vatican and trying on his clothes. It was so obviously a lie and she didn’t tell it tongue-in-cheek, either.

  17. Ag says:

    CB – it isn’t at all clear that her son is autistic – she has made various claims regarding the matter, stating at different times that he is autistic, that he was misdiagnosed and actually has a different disorder, and/or that he has been “cured.”

    as far as this story is concerned – she comes off as an a$$hole who endangers children, as usual.

    • Mitch Buchanan Rocks! says:

      and just a little manchausens – the book got her a lot of attention.

  18. Snazzy says:

    I never really cared much for her before, but with all these stories coming out I am really starting to dislike this woman, and I really feel badly for her son

    • Gen says:

      I never really liked or disliked her before. Didn’t know much about her. But I agree; as these stories are coming out, I am really starting to dislike her a lot!

  19. msw says:

    The irony. All that fuss of vaccines and not concerned about texting and driving.

    I make a point to show my daughter when we are out who looks like they aren’t paying attention to the road–and then when we pass them, she notes what they were doing (talking on the phone, texting, eating, talking to their friends). I want her to know in no uncertain terms what kinds of behavior lead to unsafe driving. And I get it back tenfold. Once, I tried to pull up a map on my phone on an empty street, and I still get crap from her about it months later. I copped to it and agreed I should have pulled over, even on an empty road, instead of looking at my phone for even five seconds. I’m glad she gets it.

  20. Chris says:

    That bowling ball photo is ridiculous. Yes Jenny it’s a bowling ball. Get over it.

  21. MOT says:

    I listened to her Sirius radio show for 10 minutes while I was driving. Oh lord it was bad. It was the episode in which she kept talking about kids acting like d*cks. She kept repeating it over and over and she used Louis ck’s stand up bit about kids being a**holes as her opener and justification for this.

    When Louis ck did it I wasn’t offended and thought it was kind of funny, but her asking repeatedly if your kid is big d*ck or a little d*ck was just so off, try hard, and offensive

    I have been somewhat of jenny apologist but I am now with the rest of you….she needs to STFU!!!!!

  22. Marianne says:

    She should have owned up to her mistake and instead of throwing away his phone. Is she trying to teach her son that she’s above the law. I get no one likes “tattle tales”, but you can’t tell him its against the law and then go ahead and do it yourself.

  23. Ninks says:

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  24. chaine says:

    she’s such repulsive, horrible person. the poor kid.

  25. HappyMom says:

    I thought she’d been fired from the View? Why is she everywhere all of the sudden with these awful anecdotes?

    • pwal says:

      She has that stupid Sirius radio show now, therefore there’s no opportunity for McCarthy to ‘go dark’ and re-think where she’s going wrong, in terms of her public brand. She didn’t cut it as a comedic presence, so she decided to parlay her pregnancy/motherhood/mothering a special needs child into her brand-unfortunately, she just can’t let go of her dream to be a comedic force, hence these so-called ‘funny’ stories about her personal daily foibles with being a mother.

      Naturally, it’s a FAIL, because instead of taking responsibility and resolving issues, she just saves the stories and spill them in the desperate hope of getting a laugh.

  26. Mitch Buchanan Rocks! says:

    Evan Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Texting and driving sucks – all who do it should have their licence Removed.

  27. Merritt says:

    How is this an embarrassing story about him? He did the right thing. She is an egotistical jerk. No one should text and drive. I suspect the story is not completely true, but she probably does text and drive. She is a terrible person and that is the sort of thing terrible people do. She enjoys putting the lives of others at risk. She is responsible for numerous infections due to her anti-vaccine campaign that far too many people bought into. I have no doubts that she is a reckless driver, putting lives at risk on the road.

  28. Maria_spain says:

    The “mommy abandoned me” story sounds like she’s not telling Evan when she’s leaving the house. Even if she’s just popping out to have a smoke, she needs to explain it to him so that he understands.

    I have an austistic Child too and thats exactly the way we have to behaves with her. She takes everything word by word , so if something is not allowed is not allowed for everyone thats includes mum and Dad .
    I feel sorry for that Child if mummy is still on denial

  29. Jenny12 says:

    She loves the attention she gets for being the parent of a special needs child. She made sure that she and Jim Carrey were photographed at a lot of functions when they were together. She seems to see the poor kid as some kind of prop or anecdote, not as a person.

  30. Shelley says:

    I don’t see the hullabaloo about her “bad” parenting. It seems like she’s become an easy target for anything and everything

    • FingerBinger says:

      I agree and I’m not even a fan.

    • Izzy says:

      Really? Her son is autistic, and therefore perceives and handles things very differently than other kids. Instead of learning to manage this, she just reacts like a spoiled child having a tantrum – throwing her kid’s cell phone out the window, FFS.

  31. Nicolette says:

    I will have one of my kids or anyone else in the car with me text for me, or answer the phone if I get a call. If I’m alone, I wait until I get to where I’m going. There are way too many things to be looking out for when you’re on the road to be worrying about your phone. To think it wasn’t all that long ago that cell phones did not exist and someone trying to reach you had to actually wait until you got home. Now everyone expects to be able to contact you immediately and get annoyed when they can’t. I kinda miss the days of being able to drop off the radar for a while because now even if you don’t respond, that voicemail or text still comes through.

    • Jenny12 says:

      I agree. My kids were watching the Paul Newman hockey film with their dad and they were fascinated when he had to get out to find a payphone. Mardou was like, “He can’t just use his cell?”

    • I Choose Me says:

      I kinda miss the days of being able to drop off the radar for a while because now even if you don’t respond, that voicemail or text still comes through.

      Completely agree.

    • Lucky Charm says:

      When I have someone else in the car with me, I’ll have them text or use the phone for me. My son has a really warped sense of humor, so I never know what to expect to see that he’s texted “from me”, lol! When we get to our destination and I check my phone, it’s often hilarious, and of course the person at the other end has no idea at the time that it’s not me.

      I have used the phone when in the car by myself, though. I almost ran into a car once while checking it (in the few seconds it took me look at my phone, traffic in my lane suddenly stopped to wait for a car ahead to turn left). That scared me so much and was a huge wake-up call. Now I don’t do that anymore, I just wait until I get to my destination or can safely park the car.

  32. word says:

    The kid did the right thing. I can’t stand it when people text and drive. Have some respect for other people’s safety !

    And seriously, having to “resist” not texting while driving is such a first world problem. Come on, just keep your phone in your purse and keep your purse in the back seat. Most of us are old enough here to remember not having cell phones at all or not being able to text at all…we survived !

    • Esmom says:

      Exactly. I always tell my kids there’s no text or call that can’t wait until the car is parked. Hard to back it up when they see people texting and driving all around us. It makes my blood boil.

  33. Izzy says:

    I’ll preface this comment with the following: I am not a parent. Nor am I a step-parent. I have no children (well, no two-legged ones).

    But even I recognize that this woman is a candidate for Idiot Mother of the Year. I have several friends with children on the autism spectrum. NONE of my friends would behave the way this idiot woman does with her child. It seems to me, that she has never undergone any kind of counseling or training on how to raise a child with autism. There are certain challenges that come with raising a kid on the autism spectrum, challenges which can be overcome with the right intervention and therapies.

    Jenny McCarthy doesn’t seem to have availed herself of any of them. And one who loses out the most is her son Evan, because he ends up with an idiot for a mother whose behavior will just confuse him more.

  34. lunchcoma says:

    I suspect this story is made up, and I still really dislike her for it. This is the sort of story that she thinks is amusing – one that normalizes texting and driving and that throws her kid under the bus.

    I really wish we could all agree to ignore this vacuous, thoughtless woman’s blabberings.

  35. kri says:

    Evan=my new hero. Jenny=turd circling the bowl.

  36. weirswalker says:

    Why does she have to “pop out” to have a smoke ? Isn’t she the face of the eciggie vape ? I can’t stand her…this kid is going to really light her fuse in a few years….

  37. Pandy says:

    I’m cutting her some slack. Stand up comics mine their personal lives for material so why shouldn’t she use her personal life for her show? I’m sure she takes creative liberties with it too – ie, she didn’t throw his phone out the window, but saying it made her bit funnier.

    • Izzy says:

      She had a tantrum when she was called out by her son for doing something illegal, and threw a hard object out of a moving vehicle onto a roadway with other drivers and vehicles. Yes, it’s hilarious.

  38. Anon says:

    Mom is going to have the kid so stressed out about when to report a crime or call for help, in fear of punishment. He won’t when and if the time is needed.

  39. LAK says:

    At least she is teaching him about being safe and he is listening, but it’s also stupid for her not to follow through on the rules she’s teaching him.

  40. Leaflet says:

    Jenny isn’t doing anything wrong, imo. There’s nothing wrong with Jenny enjoying parenthood and telling the public adorable stories about her son. Grant it, she shouldn’t be texting and driving, but I find it hilarious that she panicked and threw her kid’s phone out the window when he called the cops. I’m sure she bought her kid another cellphone. She should give her son some excuse when she steps outside for a cig break, maybe tell him she’s going to check the mail or water the plants or something. I don’t think that Jenny McCarthy should stop sharing fun stories about her son to the public just because some snotty nosed brats at Evan’s school like to pick on him. Nay, rather than that, she should have a conference with the school administrative staff, and the bullies’ parents. McCarthy teaching her son to stand up for himself is one of the best lessons a kid can learn from their parents. No need to give the bullies all the power to where she can’t enjoy silly memories about her son. That’s giving the bullies the power.she should continue to because these memories make parenthood enjoyable.

  41. Carrie says:

    Remember though, her son isn’t Autistic, you guys! Jenny McCarthy MD cured that years ago!

  42. SamiHami says:

    So not only does she text and drive, she does it with her kid in the car.

    Why is she even allowed to have custody of this child?

  43. Amanda says:

    Evan’s smarter than his mom.

  44. Trillion says:

    And she thought this would be a “good” story to tell her “fans”?

  45. melain says:

    She is such a biznatch. So she likes to embarrass family members like her son and her cousin Melissa…it’ll be fun to see what she blabs about Donnie Wahlberg and his family once she marries him. Actually, I’m really ready for her to get a good taste of her own medicine.

  46. Lil' Sausage says:

    I would never wish for that poor child to be motherless, but I do wish she would just disappear.