Inside Rory Feek’s Nasty Public Battle with Eldest Daughter Over Youngest Youngster

After making a number of allegations about their very own upbringing, Heidi, 37, and her sister Hopie, 35, say they’re contemplating authorized motion towards their musician father, whom they declare has lower them off from contacting their 10-year-old sister, and put her in harms means.

In response, Rory, 59, revealed a weblog submit titled “love, dad” Sunday, by which he mentioned his daughters’ allegations have “damaged my coronary heart,” and maintained that Indiana “has by no means been extra beloved or higher cared for than she is true now.”

Heidi then wrote an open letter to her father in response to the submit, saying she and Hopie are “simply comfortable to listen to from him” after allegedly reaching out repeatedly to no avail.

“You are proper after all, on-line is not the place to settle this. We do not know if you’re conscious, however we have been attempting to achieve you for months now offline, however you have not been responding,” Heidi wrote within the letter, which was shared to Instagram.

“Our hope is that this letter will discover you, so you may know the place our hearts are. Love is motion, not phrases. We forgive you to your unkind phrases. You referred to as us cowardly in your weblog submit for not going through you. We forgive you.”

She continued, “The final time we sat right down to have this dialog, and not using a mediator as you requested, you advised us you had been completed being our father. We forgive you.”

Heidi additionally included a screenshot allegedly exhibiting a number of unanswered textual content messages to her dad that had been despatched at varied factors in July asking about Indiana, whom Heidi says she final noticed in June.

Elsewhere within the letter, Heidi continued with a listing of issues for which she and her sister “forgive” Rory, together with the time he allegedly “deserted” his daughters in the course of the evening as kids and boarded a Greyhound bus.

Rory discusses this incident in his audiobook, saying he went to the practice station with out telling anybody and requested for a ticket to “wherever however right here.” He mentioned he dreamed of a life “that did not have the duties” he had as he rode the Greyhound, however later returned residence after questioning who would increase Heidi and Hopie.

“We discovered peace in our personal lives and have taken the lengthy journey of therapeutic,” Heidi wrote in her letter. “Now we have come out stronger on the opposite facet of our childhoods.”

Heidi additionally mentioned that she felt “heartbroken” by Rory’s declare that Indiana’s care has by no means been higher, particularly with regard to Rory’s late spouse (and Indiana’s mom) Joey, who died in 2016, when the kid was simply 2 years previous.

Rory has since married a lady named Rebecca in July.

“My coronary heart aches for Joey. You went on to say, ‘For the primary time in her life, she has a mom.’ How will you say that?” Heidi wrote. In his submit, Feek mentioned Indiana has “at all times identified that she has an actual” mom, however mentioned the lady “would not actually bear in mind her” and has “desperately needed and wanted a mom in her life.”

Heidi additionally spoke about her considerations over Homestead Heritage, a self-described “agrarian and craft-based intentional Christian group” that Rory and Rebecca are part of. A number of members up to now have been arrested and charged with little one abuse; Rory admitted there could be “a couple of dangerous apples” in massive teams, whereas the group itself mentioned in an announcement that “in each case of abuse we have ever encountered, it was our ministry that uncovered and reported the crime.”

In his submit, Feek denied the group was a “cult,” including, “These people are simply dwelling in a means that different individuals don’t like or perceive, and it’s a complete lot simpler to name one thing a cult and dismiss it than it’s to look deeper into and truly discover out what it’s they’re doing and why they’re doing it.”

“Love is motion. And we love our little sister Indiana greater than something on the planet. So we’re taking motion,” Heidi and Hopie concluded. “Love, your daughters.”

Along with their letter, Heidi’s husband Dillon Hodges wrote a letter of his personal addressed to Rory, by which he spoke on the nation singer’s alleged resolution to cease permitting Indiana to spend the evening at Heidi and Dillon’s home in Alabama.

In his weblog, Rory mentioned that Indiana “completely” misses her sisters, and asks about them “on a regular basis and would like to see them.” Nonetheless, he mentioned he’d stopped permitting sleepovers as a result of Hopie and Heidi “refused to respect my needs when she was there,” and that the crux of the disagreement was the types of leisure every get together needed to reveal Indiana to.

“Whereas I attempted my finest to respect your needs when Indy came visiting us (we by no means allowed her to have a look at screens, and at all times prayed earlier than meals, and many others), I will admit that I frequently let her hearken to Disney songs (and generally even Whitney Houston) on my iPhone,” Hodges wrote. “I do know you mentioned no music, however please do not punish the women for my actions.”

Hodges additionally admitted to recording conversations between Rory and his older daughters.

“I’ve been shocked and appalled by the way in which you’ve gotten handled all of your kids, so I felt the necessity to doc it,” he wrote. “You might be no hero. You might be no sufferer.”

Whereas it is unclear if Heidi and Hopie have truly taken any authorized motion towards their father, Rory continues to say that he is doing his finest for Indiana, even when he wasn’t at all times a “good father” to his two eldest daughters after they had been younger.

“I do know they’re offended and pissed off and need justice for the wrongs they suppose have been completed,” Rory wrote in his prolonged weblog submit. “But when I’ve realized something in my practically 60 years, it is that it would not work this fashion…. I’ll readily admit that I wasn’t an ideal father after they had been younger, however I attempted to be a superb one. And I proceed each single day to do my best for Indiana.”