Jesse Ridgway, also known as McJuggerNuggets, is an OG YouTuber with 4.35 million subs. He is best known for viral videos of destroying stuff under the persona as the kid with a “Psycho Dad.” Back in June, he announced his that he and his wife murdered their unborn child following a Down syndrome diagnosis. This stood in sharp contrast to the also highly publicized efforts to save a dog and maintain its quality of life.
Now, the Ridgeways are back with a vengeance to do damage control following the fallout from among their family, fans, and industry colleagues.
Jesse Ridgway begins his by expressing how he did not expect the story to explode the way it did. Hate poured in, especially from devout religious people who see no excuse and insist he heads for hell. Ridgway pushes back that the choice still meant losing a child and that grief belongs to the parents. Critics hold no claim on someone else’s child, bills, or decision. He denies any play for views or money. Ridgway states he has not needed money since around 2017. The video went up to cut stigma around abortion and hard family calls.
The video shifts to people Ridgway once counted as close. Clips show the Waffle Bone brothers from post-news livestreams. They mocked Ridgway’s appearance, cracked Down syndrome jokes, accused him of faking tears for the camera, compared the termination to a serial-killer documentary, and joked “RIP Jesse Jr.” They claimed the choice probably was not Ashley’s and riffed that it looked like a preference to “kill tards.” Ridgway had helped them with YouTube work and considered them friends. He had planned to feature them in Survival Series season 2. That bridge is gone for good.
Next Ridgway takes on Boogie2988 and Keemstar during a LoCal Live segment. The pair called the decision evil and eugenics in motion. Every child deserves a chance to live, they said, and God will find a way. Boogie pointed to Ridgway’s effort to keep a sick dog alive and asked why the same effort did not go to the child. Ridgway notes a long private call with Boogie on the first day of 2026. He once viewed Boogie as a close friend. Now Ridgway accuses the pair of mining the story for donations and clout. He blocked Boogie. The friendship is finished.
A longtime fan named Noel also drew fire. Ridgway says Noel posted material that painted him as evil after years of personal attention. Ridgway has blocked a large number of people over the fallout.
The story reached TMZ, People magazine, and even drew a mention from the Speaker of the House. Ridgway faults TMZ for digging up old videos to paint him in a worse light. He notes that Down syndrome rates sit near zero in some countries because of high abortion numbers in places like the UK and Canada.
Ridgway reads a long text from Ashley’s brother Nathan in full. Nathan accuses Ridgway of manipulating Ashley, damaging her family, blocking her graduation, family events, and teaching career, and trapping her at home during COVID. Nathan adds that people have speculated about abuse in the household. Nathan claims Ridgway is profiting from ads after publicly announcing the termination, calls the move “absolutely horrible,” tells Ashley she must choose, prays she leaves Ridgway, and ends with “may God help you.”
Ridgway and Ashley state the message arrived right after the termination while online attacks were at their peak. Ashley pushes back that no abuse or brainwashing is happening. The abortion was her decision, and she favored it more strongly at first. Her family is not religious. Ridgway and Ashley declare that the relationship with that side of the family is over.
They close the video by saying they are trying to get pregnant again. The hardship exposed fair-weather friends, fans, and family. Ridgway states they will not welcome back anyone absent during the worst stretch.
The people who turned their personal life into content and then also an abortion into content pretend to have the moral high ground as they attack religious people and objections to murdering a child. The brother, Nathan, is attacked for invoking prayer as a hypocrite, but this is no meaningful excuse for their dismissal of his words. Jesse Ridgeway is the psycho dad persona, and that they are trying for a second child is unfortunate.
