Courtney Stodden Says Father ‘Does not Need Me In His Life’

Stodden, after all, rose to fame after she married The Inexperienced Mile actor Doug Hutchison in 2011, when he was 50 and she or he was simply 16. The 2 met after she signed up for one in every of his on-line appearing workshops in 2010, earlier than issues between them escalated. They first break up in 2013, earlier than reconciling and finally breaking for good in 2018; the divorce was finalized in 2020.

She’s lengthy joked about her “daddy points,” suggesting they performed a task in her marriage to Hutchison and even releasing a track of the identical identify. And whereas she’s spoken up to now about being estranged from her precise father, Alex Stodden, her new Lifetime film, I Was a Youngster Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story — on which Stodden served as an government producer and by which she appeared as narrator to her personal life — advised a reconciliation occurred between them.

In reality, Stodden says they began transferring towards that whereas the movie was being written, however issues have since gone south, once more.

“I do know the film portrays my father and I to be type of at a peacemaking proper now and throughout the writing course of, this was about two years in the past, my dad and I had been making an attempt to have a reckoning, some type of one thing, as a result of all I ever wished was my dad,” Stodden advised TooFab.

“In case you do the mathematics, it does not take rocket science. I used to be a sixteen yr previous marrying somebody who was older than their father … the story begins with a woman craving her father’s love,” she continued, “and the onerous half for me right this moment, on this second as an grownup with a completely developed mind, is realizing that my father does not need me in his life, and that’s the hardest factor for me proper now. It utterly shatters my coronary heart on a regular basis.”

Stodden stated she by no means realized she truly had “daddy points” earlier than, saying her track was simply one of many methods she was “making a caricature about my ache, as a result of I wasn’t sufficiently old to place the dots collectively.” She had hoped that since she and her father had been “making an attempt” to reconnect when the film was being written, the pair can be “at peace” by the point it was launched.

That, nonetheless, wasn’t the case.

“He simply will not reply to me in any respect. He’s so damaged himself and so damage by what occurred,” she defined to TooFab, saying she believes her father — who walked her down the aisle at her wedding ceremony — thinks every little thing that occurred to her with Hutchison and the aftermath was all his “fault.”

“He was so damage to the the purpose that he went to my childhood dwelling and ended up taking all my movies, my VHS [tapes], my first birthday, my third birthday, all the best way as much as once I was 12. He took them to the dump and utterly threw me away like trash,” Stodden claimed. “So I haven’t got any childhood reminiscences anymore and, at this level in my life, I really feel like I’m making an attempt to beg for some type of love. I believe that is going to be the toughest half for me transferring ahead, making an attempt to heal from that.”

Fortunately for Stodden, issues between her and her mom Krista Keller are in an excellent place now — regardless of her mother taking some difficulty along with her portrayal within the Lifetime film.

“My mother has been … she’s constructed of metal, that girl, I do not know what makes her so sturdy,” Stodden advised TooFab. “That is the factor I like about my mother, it doesn’t matter what, she is there and I do know looking back she would by no means log out on this once more and she or he regrets it on daily basis.”

“I love her for that, that takes a variety of accountability as a result of no dad or mum needs to confess they’re flawed,” she added. “Relating to my dad, that is an entire totally different story.”

I Was a Youngster Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story is streaming now.