After making quite a few allegations about their very personal upbringing, Heidi, 37, and her sister Hopie, 35, say they’re considering licensed movement in the direction of their musician father, whom they declare has decrease 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 talked about 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 inside 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 moreover included a screenshot allegedly exhibiting quite a few unanswered textual content material messages to her dad that had been despatched at diversified elements in July asking about Indiana, whom Heidi says she closing observed in June.

Elsewhere inside the letter, Heidi continued with a list of points for which she and her sister “forgive” Rory, along with the time he allegedly “deserted” his daughters in the midst of the night as youngsters and boarded a Greyhound bus.

Rory discusses this incident in his audiobook, saying he went to the follow station with out telling anyone and requested for a ticket to “wherever however right here.” He talked about he dreamed of a life “that did not have the duties” he had as he rode the Greyhound, nevertheless later returned residence after questioning who would enhance 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 moreover talked about that she felt “heartbroken” by Rory’s declare that Indiana’s care has certainly not been increased, notably with regard to Rory’s late partner (and Indiana’s mother) Joey, who died in 2016, when the child was merely 2 years earlier.

Rory has since married a girl 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 talked about Indiana has “at all times identified that she has an actual” mother, nevertheless talked about the woman “would not actually bear in mind her” and has “desperately needed and wanted a mom in her life.”

Heidi moreover spoke about her issues over Homestead Heritage, a self-described “agrarian and craft-based intentional Christian group” that Rory and Rebecca are a part of. Plenty of members so far have been arrested and charged with toddler abuse; Rory admitted there may very well be “a couple of dangerous apples” in huge groups, whereas the group itself talked about 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,” together with, “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 private addressed to Rory, by which he spoke on the nation singer’s alleged decision to stop allowing Indiana to spend the night at Heidi and Dillon’s dwelling in Alabama.

In his weblog, Rory talked about that Indiana “completely” misses her sisters, and asks about them “on a regular basis and would like to see them.” Nonetheless, he talked about he’d stopped allowing sleepovers on account of Hopie and Heidi “refused to respect my needs when she was there,” and that the crux of the disagreement was the varieties of leisure each get collectively wanted to disclose 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 moreover 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’s unclear if Heidi and Hopie have actually taken any licensed movement in the direction of their father, Rory continues to say that he’s doing his best for Indiana, even when he wasn’t always a “good father” to his two eldest daughters after they’d been youthful.

“I do know they’re offended and pissed off and need justice for the wrongs they suppose have been completed,” Rory wrote in his extended 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.”