Meanwhile, he's really close to his mom, who sometimes went out with him and stayed out later than he did when he was younger. Back in 2003, he said, "I think that's part of my problem with girls. You keep searching for somebody as good as your mother, and that's a losing battle."
That love is permanent in more ways than one, since JT has a tattoo on his back of an angel holding a banner with his mom's initials in it.