'Teen Mom' Alum Kailyn Lowry Shares Her Estranged Father Is Dying
Kailyn Lowry is unpacking conflicting feelings.
The Teen Mom alum—mom to Elliot, 15, Lincoln, 11, Lux, 7, Creed, 5, Rio, 2, and twins Valley and Verse, 16 months—recently shared that her father Raymond Lowry has entered hospice for stage four chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but she wasn’t sure how to feel considering their estranged relationship.
“I am joining the dead dads club,” Kailyn said on the July 29 episode of her Karma and Chaos podcast. “Raymond has COPD, stage four.”
However, Kailyn—who confirmed her breakup from Elijah Scott earlier this month—admitted she already feels a part of the club, noting, “He’s deadbeat so same thing.”
Despite their fractured relationship, though, Kailyn admitted she felt conflicted about her father being at the end of his life.
“It’s layered,” she explained. “Obviously I don’t have a relationship with him, I never did. But I feel like I didn’t ever get the answers I’ve been looking for.”
Indeed, the 33-year-old described attempting to fix their relationship as recently as 2019, but her father shut it down, which added to her resentment.
“I feel like, ‘You don’t get to die without answering all the questions I have,’” she added. “I want to know why he left, I want to know why he didn’t try harder. I want to know why he just gave up.”
Kailyn admitted that her father’s decisions have always been difficult for her to understand.
“I’m mad at him,” she admitted. “I want to know how someone walks through this Earth and does the bare minimum to get by in life. You procreated multiple times and you don’t care? I just want to know where your head is at."
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She directed a pointed question toward her father, “‘How did you walk through this Earth, giving the bare minimum, and you didn’t give a f--k?’”
For her part, Kailyn has shared insight into how she has navigated parenthood—previously emphasizing how important it is for each of her kids to feel loved and seen.
“We really do a good job at making sure that we're balancing family time with individual time,” Kailyn explained to People in September, adding of her kids, “I want them to feel all of their needs are being met, so that's just something that we've always put at the forefront of everything.”
