Rory Feek Denies “Cult” Ties, Allegations of Endangering Daughter Indy

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Rory Feek is telling his broadside of the story.

In the aftermath of the allegations made against him by his eldest girl Heidi Feek, the state vocalist penned a enactment to some Heidi and his second-eldest girl Hopie Feek successful an Aug. 31 blog post titled “love, dad.”

Noting that helium felt the net was “not the spot to settee household disputes,” the 59-year-old called retired his older children for making accusations against him writing, “It is incorrect successful each way. My conjecture is that 1 day, my older girls, erstwhile they are adjacent older girls, volition look backmost and privation they had recovered a mode to bash this differently.”

He claimed that aft 2 years of allegations from Heidi, helium antecedently opted not to respond due to the fact that “I emotion my kids.”

But successful the aftermath of new claims and ineligible action from the 37-year-old, Rory broke his soundlessness connected the matter, saying of their dispute, “Love is the lone answer.”

“If you’re asking if Homestead Heritage oregon Greycliff is simply a cult, the reply is no,” Rory wrote, noting that determination are “bad apples” successful each community. “Those folks are conscionable surviving successful a mode that different radical don’t similar oregon understand, and it’s a full batch easier to telephone thing a cult and disregard it than it is to look deeper into and really find retired what it is they are doing and wherefore they’re doing it.”

He besides accused his daughters of not speaking to him astir the allegations against Homestead Heritage.

“What saddens maine astir the accusations against them the astir is that nary 1 reached retired to maine to inquire astir them oregon anyone else," helium explained. "They conscionable looked online, recovered radical saying atrocious things that frustrated ex-members and strangers person said done the years, and ran with it arsenic truth.”

This comes aft Heidi and Hopie made accusations against Rory successful a Taste of Country interrogation and on societal media.

“Rory often near Hopie and I with radical who took vantage of america – Hopie acold worse than me, but she isn’t acceptable to archer that communicative yet,” Heidi wrote connected Instagram connected Aug. 29. “Recently Indy was near successful the attraction of a radical with a good documented past of carnal and intersexual maltreatment of children.”

Rory, who remarried Indy’s teacher, Rebecca backmost successful July, added that his youngest kid “has ne'er been much loved oregon amended cared for than she is close now.”

Rory wrote, “For the archetypal clip successful her life, she has a mother,” aft Joey died erstwhile Indiana was conscionable two.

When Rory and Rebecca went connected their honeymoon, they near Indiana successful the attraction of the household that Heidi expressed concerns over, though Rory defended them successful his blog post, calling the mates the “kindest, astir beauteous radical I’ve ever met successful my life.”

He went connected to enactment that Indiana, who served arsenic a angiosperm miss successful her sister Hopie’s 2018 wedding, “absolutely” misses her sisters aft helium banned her from visiting them.

“Every mates of months, I utilized to fto Indiana walk a nighttime oregon 2 with her large sisters successful Alabama, but astir a twelvemonth ago, I stopped allowing that,” Rory wrote. “Mostly due to the fact that they refused to respect my wishes erstwhile she was there.”

Acknowledging his differing viewpoints with his older children, the self-proclaimed blimpish Christian said that Heidi and Hopie didn’t respect his wishes erstwhile it came to boundaries helium acceptable for Indiana. Then things got adjacent much heated amongst the family.

“When Child Protective Services called maine retired of nowhere, saying that it had been reported that Indiana was being neglected, on with different accusations, Heidi and Hopie forfeited their close to talk to their small sister,” Rory wrote. “The concern had escalated to them taping the conversations they were having with her and starring her connected truthful they could find ammunition to usage against me, and it had go wide that Heidi wasn’t looking retired for Indiana’s champion interest—she was looking for revenge and a mode to wounded me, nary substance the cost, and I was nary longer going to fto Indiana beryllium a portion of it.”

In effect to her father’s post, Heidi and Hopie took to Instagram, penning to their father, “As bittersweet arsenic it is to say, we’re conscionable blessed to perceive from you.”

Heidi added that Rory’s statements implicit Indiana’s attraction near her “heart broken,” and spoke successful the defence of her precocious stepmother.

“My bosom aches for Joey,” Heidi wrote. “You went connected to say, ‘For the archetypal clip successful her beingness she has a mother.’ How tin you accidental that?”

Heidi and Hopie person created a GoFundMe leafage to assistance with ineligible fees arsenic they prosecute ineligible enactment against their begetter and to assistance Indiana.

“Hopie and Heidi are successful a ineligible conflict to guarantee Indy receives the attraction and extortion she desperately needs,” the leafage reads. “This process is complex, emotionally draining, and incredibly expensive. They wouldn’t beryllium warring this conflict unless it was perfectly indispensable to support Indy safe.”