Jesy Nelson’s ex-fiancé Zion Foster has broken his silence after facing criticism over comments he made about their twin daughters’ devastating medical diagnosis.
The singer shared a series of emotional posts on Instagram, insisting that claims he had abandoned his responsibilities as a father were ‘simply not true’.
His statement comes after, in Amazon Prime Video documentary Jesy Nelson: Life Changing, Zion admitted he felt ‘out of my depth’ after learning daughters Ocean Jade and Story Monroe had been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most severe form of the rare genetic condition.
The remark sparked debate online after it leaked ahead of the doc’s release, with some interpreting it as him stepping back from parenthood. Now, Zion has said that was never what he meant.
‘I’ve stayed quiet because my focus has always been where it should be – on my children,’ he wrote on Instagram Stories.
’Reading some of the comments over the last few days has been incredibly painful because they simply aren’t true.
’When I said I was “out of my depth”, I wasn’t saying I was walking away from my children or abandoning my responsibilities as a father. I was talking about the overwhelming reality of suddenly facing a rare and complex medical diagnosis that I knew nothing about.
‘I was being honest. I didn’t have the knowledge. I didn’t have the experience. I was scared.’
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