Brian McFadden confirms custody battle with Kerry Katona…but doesn’t actually sound that keen
Brian McFadden touched back down on European soil this week and last night broke his silence on the whole Kerry Katona issue.
The former Westlife star appeared on Ireland’s ‘The Late Show’ and confirmed that he would be fighting Kerry for custody of his two daughters.
“I’ll fight to get custody of my kids and bring them to Ireland.”
On the whole cocaine snorting issue Brian told TV host Ryan Tubridy: “It is manic. Kerry’s also just got arrested.”
‘She was always troubled but of late it seems to be escalating into something ridiculous,’ he explained.
However I wonder if Brian really wants his kids, or is he just doing this now because it is expected from him. He admitted last night that if he won custody he would return to Ireland but he actually would rather stay in Australia if given the chance..
‘I don’t have a career here,’ he said. ‘My career is destroyed in UK and Ireland. How am I supposed to look after my kids here?
‘How am I supposed to feed them. I can’t make money here, get a job on a building site. No one can get a job on a building site how am I going to get one.’
He then went on to suggest that his mum takes custody of the girls temporarily until Kerry gets herself sorted. Suggesting an out of court arrangement he added:
”ll bring them back here [Ireland] so me and my mum will look after them for the next six months to a year.
‘Let her go sort her life out and whatever problems she is having she needs to go get it fixed and in six months to a year they can go back.’
So in essence, Brian doesn’t really want the girls, but he knows if he leaves them with Kerry people will start to ask questions. She has become so messed up that he can no longer turn a blind eye, so he is hoping that she will hand the girls over to his mum for a year, dump Mark, get clean and take them back. I feel so sorry for those two little girls, they haven’t got a decent parent between them!
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You know, I’ve always wondered why McFadden never pushed for custody. Kerry’s rarely been in the media except for her dysfunctional lifestyle, and whenever she’s particularly bad, the rumours of a custody battle always surface, but it never ever happens.
I loved Trudy’s take on this over on the forum:
I understand if he can’t have a career here in the UK, so why not move the children to Australia where he does appear to be working in the industry? It’s not much wonder people are starting to criticise the ‘caring dad’ act when he doesn’t follow through with appropriate actions.
Brian is all talk, his relationship with Delta is more
important to him than his kids, apparently it is strained at
the moment and having the kids will put more of a strain on
it. Perhaps Brian should have realised that kids are for life
and not just to parade in front of the media when he needs
publicity. If he finds being in a relationship a strain perhaps
he should realise that it cannot be easy for Kerry to bring
them up especially with her bi-polar disorder. I am not defending
Kerry for her behaviour and drug involvement it is completely
wrong but she has not had any good role models in her life
everyone she cares about lets her down, her mum, brian, mark
so who can she turn to? If Brian was that interested he should
have got help for Kerry a long while ago before it got that far.
Also you do not need lots of money to give kids a good
upbringing love and feeling wanted and cared for is much more
important. Both of their parents and grandparents have let these
children down, I know as a mum and grandparent I love my kids
and grandchildren enough to know I would have stepped in to
help a long time ago, its not criticism Kerry needs but help.
Brian is very content to be a long distant father where he does
not have to take responsibility, even now he’d rather a private
arrangement than a court one as he can then hand them too his
mum and back to Kerry as soon as would look acceptable to the
public,Brian is one very selfish person and if I was Delta I’d
be worried about his ability to put anyone first but himself.
[...] appeared on an Irish chat show earlier this month and revealed his intentions to gain custody of his two daughters after Kerry’s recent cocaine [...]
Mc Faddens “star” is on the descendant and this sorry episode gives this waster the oxygen of publicity he doesnt deserve.