Ryan Zofay

Well, I mean, my dad essentially disowned me.

I remember giving him a phone call because I didn't really remember what happened.

And as I'm in the chapel calling my father, he pretty much was like, look, I already lost a daughter.

And...

It looks like I just lost my son.

And I just remember just feeling so devastated.

Never really felt like I got the support from him that I deserved, that I wanted.

And here I am in the most difficult time of my life, and I felt like he just turned his back on me.

Wow.

I mean, look, and looking back, I get it because I had 21 felonies.

I was in and out of juvie.

I used to steal from him.

I was just reckless.

I was a reckless kid, and he had a hard time understanding that he was a big contributing factor to my behaviors.

And so I'm sure he was just devastated at the time because he did lose his daughter, and now he believes his son's going to spend the rest of his life in prison.

When you say contributing factor, in what ways do you think he was contributing?

Yeah, so father was an alcoholic.

Mother was a drug user.

They divorced after my sister passed away.

Mother was in and out of very abusive relationships.