Casey Aldridge’s Uncle: “They Messed Up”
Casey Aldridge’s uncle says he hopes his 19-year-old nephew will wed Jamie Lynn Spears, who shocked fans Tuesday by announcing she was pregnant at age 16.
“We’re sort of … the word is not a hurt … but we’re sort of depressed the situation has turned out like it has,” Odus Jackson, 71, a pastor in Gloster, Miss., told Usmagazine.com in a phone interview Thursday.
“We were hopeful that if they were planning for a future marriage, that it would be something that we could all look forward to in time and that it would not be a forced thing even if it happened,” he said. “I don’t know that it even will happen.”
“We’re taken aback by it, but we’ll survive.”
Odus described Casey (see his high school yearbook photo here ) — who briefly attended a junior college in Mississippi but now works for a pipe-laying company in Baton Rouge — as “a fine guy. You couldn’t ask for a finer young person.
“I know he has a 16-year-old who’s pregnant with his child, how can you say he’s a fine boy? Well, he is. They messed up.”
