Heidi Feek has a message for fans who have overstepped their bounds amid a family feud with her father, Rory Feek.
The singer-songwriter, who along with her sister Hopie has made headlines in recent months for falling out with their father over the care of their younger sister, shared a picture on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, October 15, showing the alarming message that d received by mail.
“If you don’t like me, just unfollow me. Don’t send this home to me like a psycho,” she captioned the photo. “Also a Firekid fan would never…we all know who you (sic) fan.”
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Heidi Feek.
Heidi Feek/Instagram
The anonymous sender signed the message from “Your former follower Firekid,” referring to Feek’s music project with husband Dillon Hodges.
The message appeared to be written on a postcard and prompted Feek, 38, to call her dad Rory, 59, and “‘apologise’ for the chaos you’ve created” in a “grown-up conversation”, while he also shamed her.
Heidi and her singer-songwriter father have been at loggerheads over the care of his daughter Indiana, 10, as Rory has banned Heidi and her sister Hopie, 36, from contacting Indiana due to what he says are their different worldviews.
Amid her struggle to re-establish a line of communication with Indiana, Heidi claimed the child is not safe, as Rory and his new wife Rebecca are raising her within Homestead Heritage, a religious community that Heidi claimed in an Instagram post has a “troubling history.” relating to the safety of children — a claim the group vehemently denies.
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Rory, Indiana, Heidi and Hopie Feek.
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Heidi sued Homestead Heritage for defamation in September, but said she would continue to speak out for her sister’s sake.
Rory Feek says he drove to visit daughters amid argument, but they wouldn’t talk without a mediator: ‘We’re at a dead end’
That same month, Rory wrote in a blog post that he drove two hours to meet with Heidi and Hopie at their home in Alabama in hopes of working out their differences. He claimed that no one answered his knock on the door, so he left two bouquets of peace lily flowers on the doorstep and drove home. He says he later got a text from Heidi saying she and her sister would only talk to Rory with a licensed therapist or lawyer present.
Heidi later told PEOPLE that she wasn’t home when her dad stopped by, and the visit was “terrifying” because she set “really clear boundaries.”
“It’s so hard for us to communicate with him and feel like he’s hearing us that we really don’t feel like it’s possible without a third party,” she said. “[Visiting] he was never for us, because if he was trying to reach us, he would have done it the way we asked him to, or at least he would have texted us and said, ‘Hey, I’m coming.'”
Heidi and Hopie have taken legal action against their father to fight for time with Indiana, although details of the filing remain confidential because the child is a minor. The legal proceedings are still ongoing.
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