Freddy Brazier has spoken out on the explanations behind his fractured relationship with dad Jeff Brazier.
The TV presenter, 46, is a dad to 20-year-old Freddy and 22-year-old actor Bobby Brazier, each of whom he shares with the late Jade Goody.
In latest months, the Brazier household has made headlines, with Jeff reportedly taking authorized motion to stop his youngest son from seeing his grandmother, Jackiey Budden.
Freddy was then allegedly seen out in South London, smoking a joint along with his nan, issuing an announcement yesterday to substantiate he was coming into rehab, having been ‘addicted’ to smoking since he was 12.
Now, Freddy has given an interview wherein he declares he ‘doesn’t wish to see’ his dad, accusing him of being image-obsessed with out consideration for ‘his personal sons’.
Dropping bombshell after bombshell whereas chatting with the Each day Mail, Freddy started: ‘It feels to me like he solely cares about his personal picture. He doesn’t take into consideration something that impacts anybody else, not even his personal sons.
‘I don’t wish to see him, and I gained’t see him subsequent week on Father’s Day both.
‘However that’s as a result of I really feel like I’m being frolicked. I don’t actually deserve it.’
Freddy, who was simply 4 when his mum died from cervical most cancers in 2009 at age 27, additionally make clear the dynamic between him and his older brother Bobby.
He claims they’re ‘all barely talking,’ which is a stark distinction to the supportive scenes the nation witnessed when Freddy and Jeff cheered for the cleaning soap star within the Strictly Come Dancing 2023 viewers.
There’s one member of the family Freddy stays near, nevertheless, and that’s Jackiey.
He says they’ve ‘correct enjoyable’ whereas collectively, clarifying that, regardless of what Jeff allegedly believes, he didn’t begin smoking weed as a result of he spends time along with his nan.
As a substitute, he took up the behavior ‘years in the past with [his] mates’, however now finds ‘peace’ in doing it.
‘Supposedly, he’s (dad Jeff) taking authorized motion to cease me from seeing my nana, however nothing will cease me doing that. She’s my household,’ he said.
‘And my mum can be upset if she was right here to see him doing that. He nonetheless tries to deal with me like I’m 13. I’m 20 years outdated.
‘He doesn’t let me do something for myself.’
Insisting that he’ll ‘at all times’ keep in touch along with his nan, he vows to maneuver to a different nation if Jeff’s injunction – which Freddy claims he realized about by means of the press – is profitable.
In the meantime, Jackiey has additionally made her emotions about Jeff clear. In a earlier specific rant, she branded him the C-word a number of occasions.
I really feel like I’m being frolicked. I don’t actually deserve it
She added to MailOnline: ‘I do know what that is all about. It (the scenario with Jeff) doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter.
‘Do I wish to see Freddy? In fact I do. I see Freddy all the time. I’ll see him.’
Freddy and Jeff participated within the Movie star sequence of Race Throughout the World collectively final 12 months, travelling to southern Chile.
Through the journey, they tried to bond as Freddy nonetheless processes his mum’s dying, nevertheless it was clear to viewers that there was stress at occasions.
One second noticed Jeff inform cameras that Freddy ‘isn’t at house masses.’
And whereas Freddy praised his dad, who introduced him up, for ‘every little thing he has completed for [him]’, he added: ‘At occasions the place I’ve pushed him away, he has pulled even more durable to tug me again in.’
This Morning presenter Jeff additionally ‘stormed off’ at one level when Freddy confessed their household isn’t as shut as viewers would possibly assume.
Freddy now says they filmed the present earlier than their huge fallout, however ‘solely as a result of [Jeff] actually needed to do it’.
Sustaining that he ‘didn’t’ wish to participate, he mentioned his dad has an ‘obsession with picture and earning money,’ which he believes is why his father desires to distance him from Jackiey, who has spoken overtly about her personal dependancy struggles prior to now.
‘It’s at all times all about picture. It’s all about cash. That’s why Bobby moved out of my dad’s place, too. He’s dwelling in London now as an alternative, doing his personal factor,’ Freddy claimed.
‘Me and Bobby don’t communicate a lot both. I despatched him a message to want him a cheerful birthday, however that’s it.
‘I was the intermediary between my dad and everybody. However now I can’t be bothered. I don’t care what occurs. He’s the fiery one; I’m chilled out—I zone out and stroll away once we argue.’
Freddy’s tell-all interview, wherein he mentioned he’s ‘in a very good place’, comes in the future after his Insta Story assertion wherein he promised to work on his household relations by ‘slicing down’ smoking.
In a part of his put up, he wrote: ‘I wish to be clear so I can life fortunately and have wholesome relationships with folks and be there for all of my household relatively then feeling like I’m within the center and have to decide on a aspect.’
He continued: ‘I haven’t been in a position to really feel love correctly as I’ve by no means cherished myself and it begins now I wish to play soccer and take up boxing I wish to be glad and be in a wholesome relationship and have a wholesome relationship with my Nana and my father’.
The final time Freddy was seen along with his dad was on June 4.
Wanting downcast, Jeff met up with Freddy in Essex, and so they have been noticed having a tense assembly at a barbershop, participating in an animated dialog earlier than leaving collectively.
Reps for Jeff Brazier have been contacted for remark.
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