How would you feel if you learned your dad wasn't actually your dad? That would probably drastically alter a relationship. If their parenting was still good, it might not matter. Regardless, they were the father figure you needed at the time. However, lord forbid you don't have a close relationship with them, there's some complicated feelings there. That's the case for Rory Feek's daughter Hopie, who currently grapples with the fact that the singer isn't actually her biological dad.
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Recently, Rory posted a blog, where he details his suspicions about one of his daughters not truly being his own. He gets particularly candid and extremely vulnerable, to the point where Hopie was a little caught off guard.
In a conversation with PEOPLE, she recalls some of her feelings reading Rory's blog. "In his post, he managed to call my mom a liar and made it seem like she didn't want to be in our lives. It was also hurtful that he said he was 'frustrated' when he found out I was going to be born. Like I was always unwanted," she laments. "I tried to be as upbeat as possible in my announcement, hoping to find a positive path through this difficult situation."
Hopie Feek Wants Nothing to Do With Dad After How He Treated His Mother
Currently, Hopie holds a distant, strained relationship with her father. However, it's not because of the DNA test or anything of that nature. If anything, she would treasure the idea of having a father figure, regardless if it's biological. Rather, it's Rory and his insistence on airing out the family's dirty laundry and not going to therapy with them about it. "My relationship with my dad is broken. Not because of this new revelation, but because he refuses to go to family therapy," she says.
"Him taking the two most vulnerable conversations of my life (coming out to him, and telling him we're not biologically related) and publishing them to the world, is something we need a professional to help us navigate," Hopie adds.
