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Originally Posted by Liam-

I think people need to wrap their heads around the fact that people don’t have an automatic right of access to their grandchildren, if you’re not in contact with your children for whatever reason (he’s not in contact with his daughter because he’s a money hungry fame *****, who can’t keep his mouth shut about her) if they keep their kids away from you, that’s their decision, if you can’t treat your children properly, you shouldn’t expect to have a relationship with their kids

I think perhaps seeing a lonely, dying man begging for scraps of contact with his family due entirely to his own past behaviours and actions hits a little too close on the anxieties of some people maybe. Easier to make it "not his fault", the evil daughter's wrongdoing, take some of the edges off those hooks, make it a bit easier to wriggle off of them.