Brody Jenner Claims Caitlyn Bailed On Attending His Wedding The Week Before Ceremony

Brody, 35, and his wife, Kaitlynn Carter, got dinner with his brother, Brandon, and their mom, Linda Thompson during the episode. Conversation turned to Caitlyn’s absence from Brody and Brandon’s lives.

“My dad and I have never really had a great relationship,” Brody said of the 69-year-old Olympian. “Through all the ups and downs that my family has had, my mom has always been the rock.”

But it was Linda, 69, who urged Brody to forgive Caitlyn for skipping his wedding. Brody and Kaitlynn, 30, wed in Indonesia in June 2018. 

“Right before our wedding, Brody's dad cancelled on coming to the wedding, like a week before,” Kaitlynn explained. “Brody kind of brushed it off, but he has to have felt something. But he doesn't express it.”

“Not having my dad at the wedding, it was a bummer,” he finally admitted. “Honestly, it really did hurt and I would have loved to have her there, but she had better things to do. Apparently.”

Linda urged her son to “let it go,” saying that she had forgiven Caitlyn for their acrimonious split.

“I was so happily married to Bruce Jenner. I had this great normal life here in this little house in Malibu, until that fateful day… where Bruce said to me ‘I want to transition,’” she recalled, using Caitlyn’s dead name. “My life just did a 180. In my mind, I had lost my normal, my family, my wonderful husband that I thought would be forever. I had just lost my marriage and the father of my kids. I was devastated.” Caitlyn didn’t come out publicly until 2015.

She continued, “But that was just a momentary reaction. My greater sympathy had to go out to Caitlyn.” Still, Linda said she doesn’t excuse all of her ex’s behavior.

“I don't give Bruce, or Caitlyn, a pass for not being a father,” she said. “I don't think there's any excuse ever for not being there for your children.”

On an earlier episode of The Hills, Brody said he learned “not to expect much” from Caitlyn, who had been unreliable for years.

He also previously claimed that sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner never even bothered to RSVP for the wedding.