Zoe Lavely, ex partner of Tyler Brodsky, Oklahoma father who had cops called on him in viral video by upset stranger at QuikTrip gas station restroom accuses her ex of being a deadbeat dad, not making child support payment and exploiting their daughters for cash.
The mother of the young girls who were confronted by an angry stranger after their father took them into a gas station women’s restroom has led to her accusing her ex partner of exploiting the couple’s daughters for attention and money.
Oklahoma father Tyler Brodsky had stopped at a QuikTrip last weekend and taken his daughters into the restroom when an ‘irate’ stranger confronted him in a video that has since gone viral. The stranger, since been identified as Robert Buckner of Mississippi ended up becoming the ire of the internet, with many criticizing him of overkill.
The episode led to him being fired by his real estate employer for ‘non alignment’ of values after the video going viral.
Gas station restroom ex of Ok father accuses him of being deadbeat dad
But there was more to come…
Zoe Lavely, the mother of the girls in Brodsky’s viral video, in a shared post on Facebook, Friday night said she did not ‘love this outcome’ and accused Brodsky of exploiting their daughters for cash.
‘I see their dad approaching the man that scared my girls just for the video,’ she wrote.
‘I see my girls being capitalized for money. I see people offering money to a man that hasn’t paid 1 penny to those girls just this year.’
Lavely, who said she was the girls’ custodial parent, wrote that she was ‘heartbroken and overwhelmed,’ though she acknowledged that Brodsky had ‘handled the situation well.’
‘Everytime [sic] I open my phone I see my 3 year old daughter in tears,’ she wrote. ‘It destroys me every single time.’
Lavely insisted that she would ‘never blast my children on social media’ as she took aim at Brodsky.
‘It could have been a simple video explaining the situation without my kid’s faces all over the place,’ she wrote.
Lavely also suggested the entire interaction could ‘have been an audio recording’ instead.
Oklahoma dad responds to ex’s accusations
Responding to his ex’s claims, Brodsky told the dailymail, ‘I’m not going to get into a public back–and–forth with the mother of my children. My focus has always been, and will continue to be, our daughters.’
He firmly rejected Lavely’s claims that he was ‘capitalizing off this situation’ with their daughters.
‘As for the financial accusations, those are simply not accurate,’ Brodsky added.
The father–of–two insisted that he would not discuss private family matters publicly ‘because my daughters deserve better than that.’
Brodsky said that he never expected the video to receive so much attention, but that he was trying to ‘use it in a positive way by encouraging more family restrooms and advocating for parents with young children.’
‘At the end of the day, I hope this conversation shifts away from conflict and toward making public places more accommodating for families,’ he told the dailymail. ‘That’s the outcome I’m hoping comes from all of this.’
