Teen Mom 2 alum Kailyn Lowry revealed her estranged father, Raymond Lowry, has entered hospice care.
“I have a small update for anyone who cares. I am joining the dead dads club,” Kailyn, 33, said on the Tuesday, July 29, episode of her “Karma and Chaos” podcast. “Raymond has COPD, stage IV.”
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic lung condition caused by damage to the organ, according to the Mayo Clinic. The tissue damage results in swelling and inflammation within the lung, which limits airflow.
According to Kailyn, she somewhat feels like a member of the “dead dads club” already, since she is not close to Raymond.
“He’s deadbeat, so now he’s minus the ‘beat,’” Kailyn said. “I feel conflicted. It’s layered. It was sent to me in the weirdest way. I sent my cousin money for something, and her sister was like, ‘Don’t send her money.’ Then, she told my aunt, [who] is my dad’s sister. My dad’s sister sent me a message, ‘I know your heart was in the right place, but don’t do that.’ In the same message, [she said], ‘Just an FYI, your father has stage IV COPD. He’s on hospice.’ It was all the same message.”
She continued, “It’s layered in that, obviously, I don’t have a relationship with him and never did, but I feel like I didn’t ever get the answers I’ve been looking for.”
Kailyn last reached out to Raymond in 2019, asking whether he would take a DNA test.
“He told me he would, and then I sent him one and he refused to take it,” she claimed. “I feel like, ‘You don’t get to die without answering all the questions that I have.’ I want to know why he left, I want to know why he didn’t try harder, I want to know why he gave up [and] I want to know why he didn’t just do it to me but turned around and did the same thing to my sister. I feel like my sister never really had answers.”
