Fans of Kim Zolciak’s “Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding,” know that Zolciak and her mother, Karen, have a tense relationship. The two spent most of the show’s first season arguing with each other and during the season finale, Zolciak kicked Karen out of her wedding. Now, their feud has taken a turn for the worse as Zolciak is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with both of her estranged parents.
The trouble began earlier this week, when Karen told RadarOnline that Zolciak has kept her and her husband, Joe, from seeing their grandkids for the past year and that Zolciak is using the kids as “pawns.”
“We are taking our daughter Kim to court to get visitation of our grandchildren,” said Karen. “Kim has always used her kids as pawns and she makes us jump through hoops to get to them.”
However, Zolciak quickly fired back, saying that her parents are trying to exploit her kids to help sell a tell-all book about her and that they have now committed a crime by lying to the court.
Zolciak is “heartbroken and saddened by the derogatory and spiteful statements made by her mother and father, Karen and Joe Zolciak,” said her rep, Jack Ketsoyan. “It is clear from the pleadings filed by Mrs. Karen Zolciak that by claiming she is indigent she has committed perjury, a felony in Georgia, which holds a sentence of not less than one year of imprisonment but not more than 10 years imprisonment, a $1,000 fine, or both.”
“This alone should alert everyone that this Grandparent’s visitation lawsuit is for nothing more than publicity to drive up the price of her purported ‘tell all’ book about her daughter,” added Ketsoyan.
However, Joe recently weighed in on the legal battle and claimed that his daughter is denying them the right to see their grandkids because Zolciak is jealous of Karen.
“Kim has shown a lot of disrespect to her mother. Her mother is very attractive, she looks fantastic and I think that Kim is jealous of her mother!” Joe said.
Well, clearly this is a mess of a family feud, but they aren’t the only celebrity family on the outs. Check out some other family feuds below. –nicholas robinson
