Rory Feek is responding to accusations from his older daughters about their concern over the well-being of their youthful sister.
On Saturday (Aug. 31), the 59-year-old nation star wrote a prolonged weblog submit, titled “love, dad,” during which he responded to accusations from his daughters Heidi, 37, and Hopie, 35, that their youthful sister, Indiana, 10, resides in unsafe circumstances with him and his new spouse.
“I’ll do my finest to attempt to reply to a couple of of the issues which can be being mentioned, with hopes that one thing in what I write may be useful,” Rory started his 3,500-word submit.
In late August, Heidi and Hopie shared on Instagram that they have been threatening to take authorized motion towards Rory relating to their little sister Indiana “Indy” Boone, who has Down syndrome.
“We’re pursuing authorized motion as a result of we not consider Indiana is protected below our father’s care, and her well-being stays our prime precedence,” reads Heidi’s Aug. 23 submit on Instagram.
Billboard had not been in a position to find a filed lawsuit at press time.
Following Rory’s marriage to Indiana’s instructor Rebecca on July 14 in Greycliff, Mont., Heidi shared posts on Instagram indicating that the 10-year-old had been left with unfamiliar members of the family whereas their father and his new spouse have been on their honeymoon within the Treasure State, Style of Nation stories.
Rory’s first spouse, Joey, died at 40 in 2016 after a battle with cervical most cancers. The duo carried out below the identify Joey + Rory. She was first identified with cervical most cancers in 2014, and he revealed the next yr that that they had determined to finish remedy.
In one other Instagram submit on Aug. 29, Heidi reportedly expressed considerations that Indiana was being “left within the care of a gaggle” recognized as Montana department of the Homestead Heritage, which calls itself an “agrarian- and craft-based intentional Christian neighborhood.” A Texas Observer report in 2012 alleged abuse throughout the Waco area-based group, together with the sexual assault of youngsters, which the Homestead Heritage has denied.
In his weblog submit on Saturday, Rory wrote that whereas on his honeymoon in Greycliff, Indiana was left with two households that each had youngsters near his daughter’s age, and that she “had a ball” throughout the expertise.
“I’m not an ideal father, however I’m additionally not an fool,” the singer wrote.
He additionally famous that Homestead Heritage shouldn’t be a cult. “These of us are simply dwelling in a approach that different folks don’t like or perceive, and it’s an entire lot simpler to name one thing a cult and dismiss it than it’s to look deeper into and really discover out what it’s they’re doing and why they’re doing it,” the musician wrote.
Rory admitted, nonetheless, that each neighborhood, church and household has its justifiable share of “unhealthy apples,” however that “we must be a tradition of redeeming folks, not of canceling them.”
Elsewhere in his weblog submit, Rory defined that Indiana is not allowed to go to Heidi and Hopie in Alabama, however that she is allowed to talk to her older siblings on the cellphone.
“Each couple of months, I used to let Indiana spend an evening or two along with her massive sisters in Alabama, however a few yr in the past, I ended permitting that,” he wrote. “Principally as a result of they refused to respect my needs when she was there.”
Rory goes on to clarify that he’s a conservative Christian and his daughters consider one thing “utterly completely different,” and that they have been exposing Indiana to films and music that he didn’t approve of.
“Indiana is my daughter, and I do know what Joey would need, and I’m standing firmly on not compromising the values and ideas which can be vital to me to boost Indy with,” the artist wrote. “I inform her that hopefully quickly, we’ll all be again collectively, and she or he’ll get to speak to and see them once more. I do look ahead to that day virtually as a lot as Indy does.”
On Saturday, Heidi responded to her father’s weblog submit on Instagram, writing that she and Hopie had been attempting to achieve him for months however he had not responded to their offline makes an attempt. She additionally shared a screenshot of unanswered textual content messages and audio of a cellphone dialog the place they allegedly begged him to attend household remedy.
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