“You need to be accountable for the issues that you just did and did not do as a father or mother,” Thompson recollects lately telling Caitlyn, including, “I am not so certain she’s as accountable as she needs to be.”
Linda Thompson is opening up about her son Brody Jenner’s relationship along with his father, Caitlyn, following his current feedback about their previous estrangement.
Whereas talking with Us Weekly at a fundraiser earlier this week, the previous actress shared the place Brody stands with Caitlyn, and in addition revealed that she confronted her ex about taking accountability for being “not there” when their sons had been rising up.
Thompson was married to Caitlyn from 1981 to 1986, and welcomed Brandon and Brody. Throughout his current stint on Season 3 of Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at, Brody, 41, opened up about feeling “deserted” by Caitlyn throughout his childhood after she went on to marry Kris Jenner in 1991.
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Thompson, 74, agreed along with her son’s feedback.
“He was completely proper. [Caitlyn] was not there. That is once we knew [her, and she] was not there when Brody was rising up, or Brandon,” she advised Us Weekly.
“Brandon is the one who taught Brody trip a motorcycle, throw a baseball and do all of the issues {that a} massive brother will train his little brother,” she continued. “However there have been years that might go by when [Caitlyn] did not name them, did not see them, no ‘Blissful Birthday,’ no ‘Merry Christmas’ [and] no, ‘You guys OK after the Northridge earthquake?’ Nothing.”
Thompson went on to share that she and Caitlyn, 75, lately had a dialogue about her obvious absence in Brody and Brandon’s childhoods.
“I stated, ‘You understand, typically fact comes round to chew you within the butt. You need to be accountable for the issues that you just did and didn’t do as a father or mother,'” she stated she advised Caitlyn, including, “I am not so certain she’s as accountable as she needs to be. She’s a piece in progress, however Brody and Brandon are very forgiving.”
“All of us are, and Caitlyn involves all household occasions and all of us love her. All of us want her properly. The reality hurts typically and she or he was not there,” Thompson stated.
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Brody has spoken out about his sophisticated relationship along with his father previously.
Throughout an episode of Particular Forces: World Hardest Take a look at, which aired final month, the fact star mentioned their strained dynamic and shared how Caitlyn’s transition in 2015 impacted their relationship.
“I had an unimaginable mom. … [Caitlyn] wasn’t round that a lot. They cut up, after which he met a lady [Kris]. “She had youngsters as properly. The girl that he met … that they had youngsters collectively,” he stated, referencing to Kris’ kids: Kourtney, Kim, Rob, and Khloé Kardashian, together with Kendall and Kylie Jenner, whom Kris and Caitlyn welcomed collectively.
“I believe not having Bruce round rising up and her doing that transition, it was powerful simply being her son,” Brody continued. “I’ll say he was going by his personal struggles, transitioning, and it was all that was placed on TV, and there have been these moments that we’d have that was all filmed, and it simply felt very invasive and never very real, I’d say.”
In a confessional, Brody shared extra ideas on his relationship with Caitlyn.
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“Once I came upon that Caitlyn, or Bruce, wished to be Caitlyn, it was type of a reduction,” Brody admitted. “I believe that there have been a variety of issues that began to make sense, you understand, simply in my life, about my father, and possibly why he wasn’t there all these years.”
He continued, “And I believe when you will have youngsters, it’s good to settle for a little bit little bit of duty that the stuff you do are additionally going to replicate on them as properly.”
Brody additionally opened up about how his relationship with Caitlyn has had an impact on his relationship with daughter Honey, whom he welcomed with fiancée Tia Blanco in July 2023.
“I believe it actually has formed me to do every little thing totally different and to actually be there and to be current to my little woman,” he shared.
Whereas he is maintained previously that he needs to be the “precise reverse” type of father or mother Caitlyn was to him, Brody stated that he and his dad have since reconciled, with the fact star revealing that Caitlyn apologized to him for not being there when he was rising up.
“Only recently, I bought an actual, honest apology,” Brody shared. “It was the primary time in my life that I’ve ever gotten an apology. You understand, ‘I am sorry for not being there,’ and truthfully, it meant so much.”
