Deon Derrico Says Legal Drama With Karen Derrico Feels Like “Someone Died”

Deon Derrico isn’t mincing his words.

Two weeks after the Doubling Down with the Derricos alum allegedly received threatening emails from his ex-wife Karen Derrico amid a contentious family dynamic, he addressed her attorney’s claims that those exchanges were fabricated.

“It’s absolutely egregious,” Deon told Oxygen.com in an interview published July 1. “I think it is absolutely absurd and preposterous. I have no ability or no way of hacking her email.”

The claims come two years after he and Karen—who documented their lives with their 14 kids on the TLC show from 2020 to 2024—announced their breakup following 19 years of marriage. As to where they stand today, the patriarch mourned the bond they once shared, saying it felt like “someone died.”

“I feel [that way] because something died,” he told Oxygen.com. “Something that I loved died and that was us as a unit, as a whole, and our family is torn in two. So something has died. What has died was the way we once were, and we’ll never be that way again.”