Rory Feek’s Daughter Hopie Reveals He is Not Her Organic Father, Calls Out Dad’s Response

After Hopie shared final week that she took a DNA check that exposed Rory is not her organic dad, Rory posted a prolonged weblog put up in response, during which he detailed his response, whereas additionally diving into the household’s historical past — which didn’t go over effectively with Hopie.

Rory raised Hopie and her older sister, Heidi, after he cut up from their mom. In his weblog put up, Rory shared particulars about his ex, which led Hopie to slam her dad on Instagram.

Now, with Hopie publicly calling out Rory, it seems the household is getting right into a public feud for the second time. Rory acquired right into a dispute with Hopie and Heidi simply final September over the sisters’ issues about their youngest sister, Indiana, 10, whom Rory shared along with his late spouse, Joey Feek.

Learn on to see how the newest drama went down.

In a video shared to her Instagram on February 8, Hopie publicly revealed that she had taken a 23andMe DNA check that exposed Rory just isn’t her organic father. She stated her actual father is a person she known as “B.C.”

“Most of you realize me by my household and their story. I’ve all the time felt slightly bit totally different and now I do know why. So I took a 23andMe check and I acquired the outcomes I by no means knew I wanted. Seems, that is my dad,” Hopie stated, earlier than exhibiting a photograph of herself smiling subsequent to an older man. “Not the one that everybody is aware of, and his title is B.C. And over the past six months, him and I’ve gotten actually shut and gotten to know one another. And it is so unusual as a result of we’re a lot alike.”

She shared that she discovered B.C. on social media. “Inside 24 hours of discovering him and messaging him on Fb, he was right here at my doorstep simply to offer me a hug and to satisfy me,” Hopie recalled, including, “I’ve by no means skilled unconditional love like that earlier than. There’s a lot extra like to my story than I ever thought there was.”

Hopie went on to share that she additionally “reconnected” along with her mother prior to now 12 months.

“She’s freaking superior. And discovered simply how a lot she loves me and the way a lot she wished to be part of my life however by no means actually may,” she stated. “To a dad who I by no means realized I had, who simply instantly cherished me and is so excited to name me his daughter. And that’s what he calls me, daughter.”

“I do know that you just guys in all probability have a variety of questions, and I did too and I nonetheless do,” Hopie added. “I am simply actually grateful for all of this and the individuals, the brand new individuals I’ve in my life and the brand new household that love me for who I’m.”

A couple of days after Hopie posted her Instagram video, Rory shared a put up on his weblog, which he titled “a distinct dad.” Within the prolonged put up, the nation singer recalled studying the information that he is not Hopie’s organic father, earlier than he then dove into his previous relationship along with his ex-wife, particularly when Hopie was born.

“On Thursday morning I used to be sitting within the kitchen, Rebecca was making breakfast and Indy was getting dressed for the day, and my cellphone rang. After I picked it up, I noticed my center daughter Hopie’s title… I can not inform you the final time she referred to as me,” he started.

“I had been praying that she, or Heidi would name. Many instances, ” continued Rory, who’s a member of Homestead Heritage, an “agrarian and craft-based intentional Christian neighborhood,” that many on-line have accused of being a cult. “And unusually, earlier that morning particularly. I hadn’t seen both of the ladies in a 12 months and so they’d not spoken rather more than a sentence at a time to me in additional than two. So to see Hopie’s title come up on my cellphone felt like a solution to prayer.”

Rory stated he and Heidi sat down for a dialog collectively for the primary time in “two and a half” years” on a bench the place his ex-wife, Joey Feek, is buried.

“I had no thought what she wished to speak with me about. And actually, it did not matter to me. I simply wished to see her,” he recalled. “To have the chance to look into her eyes and her look into mine, with hopes that she may understand that we aren’t enemies. And that I like her deeply.”

“And searching again now, I can’t assist however assume my want got here true. Though in a approach that I by no means anticipated,” he wrote.

Rory recalled Hopie relaying the information of her DNA check to him, admitting that he “was not anticipating to listen to that,” however stated he wasn’t utterly “shock[d].”

“‘I didn’t know’ I advised her, and I did not. ‘However in one other approach Hopie, it doesn’t utterly shock me,’” he wrote.

Rory went on to element what allegedly went down earlier than Hopie was born, writing that he recalled the “reminiscence” with Hopie throughout their dialog.

In accordance with Rory, when he returned from a six-month deployment with the Marines in 1988, he and his ex-wife, Hopie’s mom, “weren’t doing effectively,” however shortly after, she discovered she was pregnant. He stated when Hopie was born, he believed she had arrived “per week or two earlier than her due date,” whereas the nurse advised him the child was “per week or two overdue.”

Rory stated he did not actually give it some thought once more till a few 12 months later when he and his ex-wife divorced, writing that he requested her if Hopie was his daughter.

“I pleaded along with her to let me hold each of you ladies, however she insisted on taking you. And so it was then that I requested her if you happen to have been mine, or if one thing had occurred after I was gone abroad,” he recalled telling Hopie. “She advised me repeatedly that nothing had occurred and that sure, you have been mine. And that was that.”

“You and her acquired on a aircraft and Heidi stayed with me. However we wrote your mother letters and referred to as her, all the time asking if I may come get you, so you would be with Heidi and I,” he continued. ” And I defined how someday a number of months later, your Mother referred to as and stated I may come get you. And so I flew to Florida and picked you up and from that second on, I stored you and I raised you.”

Rory stated he advised Hopie that whereas “part of me knew” Hopie wasn’t his, “I advised her I didn’t care.”

“That this information and this blood check doesn’t change something for me,” he continued, “‘I like you as my daughter and I all the time will.’”

In the meantime, Rory then recalled how Hopie and Heidi solely allegedly noticed their start mother “twice in all of the years” he raised them, earlier than they later related with their mother after highschool, and, once more for dinner at his farmhouse.

Now, whereas reflecting on his dialog with Hopie, Rory stated he is “grateful” he discovered the reality, and finally that he was given the “probability to let Hopie understand how a lot I like her.”

Nonetheless, he wrote that he is “disenchanted and unhappy that it took three a long time to study this. However the fact is…I principally harm for Hopie.”

“Hopie has such a young coronary heart, stuffed with child-like marvel and light-weight, even within the darkest of days. It is heartbreaking that she has needed to take care of such an unimaginable quantity of ache and loss in her comparatively brief life,” Rory wrote. “Far more I believe than most individuals do in a lifetime. That is going to be laborious for her I do know. Making sense of one thing that’s laborious to make sense of. Discovering out that who you have been, and in addition ‘whose’ you have been, just isn’t what you’ve been led to imagine your entire life.”

“And I additionally harm for Hopie’s Mother. Realizing that she carried that secret round all these years. I can solely think about how laborious that was, and the way scary it will need to have been for her to lastly inform the reality,” he added. “All these years later, I don’t fault her Mother now for holding this from Hopie, and from me. I’m certain she had her causes. She was younger and I’d wish to assume did one of the best she may with what she had and who she was on the time.”

In a while Tuesday, Hopie took to Instagram to handle her father’s weblog put up, calling it “extraordinarily disappointing.”

“After I had the dialog with Rory, my one request was for him to be variety and never disgrace my mother. At this time, he shared her non-public historical past in his weblog, which is extraordinarily disappointing,” she wrote in an announcement.

“I shared my story as a result of I could not hold the key all to myself anymore,” she continued. “I am actually not a public individual, however as a result of Rory is, my non-public life turns into content material for his followers (who are sometimes unkind on-line).”

Hopie then recalled her father’s alleged response to when she got here out as bisexual and claimed he “satisfied” her to permit him to incorporate the knowledge in his 2018 memoir As soon as Upon a Farm.

“After I privately got here out to him as bisexual, he was hateful and judgmental. Later, he satisfied me to let him write about it in his ebook. I remorse that,” she wrote. “When his ebook got here out, he had large help and I had the other. Extra hate from his followers. The issues he wrote in that chapter nonetheless harm.”

Her subsequent slide in her Instagram put up included an audio clip from Rory narrating a chapter in his ebook, during which he recalled how he reacted to Hopie telling him about her sexuality. Rory admitted that he was judgmental, citing his Christian beliefs, and in addition added he was going to “want to guard” his daughter Indiana “from sin.”

“With all the pieces occurring proper now, this clip made a variety of sense. He was already making an attempt to maintain me from Indy,” Hopie wrote, referring to her and her sister Heidi’s claims that Rory minimize them off from contacting their 10-year-old sister, and put her in harms approach. “It is like he was already making an attempt to push me out of his life.”

As she continued her message, Hopie then accused Rory of “us[ing] my story to promote his books.”

“Any more, I simply want my tales could possibly be my very own to inform and share,” she continued. “I wish to transfer ahead and discover happiness with the individuals who love me, far-off from this on-line hate.”

She captioned her put up, “My intention has by no means been to harm anybody with this new info. I simply wanted to get it out. That is the final I’m going to say about it…for now. Please respect my privateness.”