“I wanted to be there as much as I could,” she explained. “We had been through almost 25 surgeries together, and then all of a sudden, he didn’t want me at surgeries… everything started getting covered in a thick veil. It was like there was a force field around him that I couldn’t get through.”
Following this shift, Brooke said that she and her dad had “respectful disagreements that took an emotional toll,” which, along with her high-risk pregnancy, led her to “step away” from their relationship.
“I know in my heart I did everything I could,” she added. “He knew I would run through a burning building for him. And in many ways, along the path of life, I did. He knows how deeply, how hard and how purely I loved him. I am at peace knowing this.”
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