His sister & mother are/were vile, said terrible things and Tiger has refused to meet them (his Mum has passed away). She has met his brother Rhett and had contact with her Grandad before he died. Read into that what you will.
His mother abandoned Rhett completely and gave her kids a difficult childhood. She didn’t really have any right to criticise.
I’m not sure that’s correct though?
Patricia (Michael’s mother) had Tina during her first marriage, she then remarried Kelland Hutchence and had Michael and then Rhett. The family moved to HK when Michael and Rhett were young, returned to Australia when Michael was a an teen and the couple were married for 17 years - so it doesn’t seem like a horrible childhood?
Rhett has spoken about not being as close to Tina (there’s an age gap anyway and Tina relocated to the states), and he’s spoken about Patricia taking a teenage Michael to the states on a trip after his parents divorce (as part of furthering her career) and that equated to him feeling abandoned - but leaving a young kid at home with his father, isn’t the same as abandoning him in my view. I’ve never heard of the Hutchence kids having awful childhoods. To the contrary, the family seemed close when Patricia, Michael and Kelland were alive. Kelland was one of the last people to see Michael alive and Rhett remains close to his stepmother, susie (who Kelland married after his divorce from Patricia).
it was Tina (his sister) who was more critical of Paula in the piece, not his mum. She mentioned that his mum was close to his previous girlfriends whereas Paula refused to take their calls.
as for Tiger Lily’s relationship with her grandparents.. I don’t think that is reflective on them as people nor of their relationship with Michael. It was pretty selfless of them to agree to Bob having custody because it was overall better for Tiger. They also sought to protect tigers well-being when Paula had in her Australia amidst concerns of Paula’s drug use.
considering tiger was brought up in the U.K., it isn’t surprising she didn’t have a traditionally close relationship with them, and she was a child when Patricia died, so I don’t think that says much about them as people.