Deon Derrico Says Karen Derrico Legal Drama Feels Like "Someone Died"

After Karen Derrico's attorney accused her ex-husband Deon Derrico of fabricating alleged emails in which the mom of 14 threatened to kill him, the patriarch reflected on their family dynamic.

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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."

Karen was accused of threatening to kill her ex and any of their children if they sided with the patriarch, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the outlet. Authorities alleged that the reality star violated the temporary restraining order obtained by Deon by sending him several emails "unrelated to parenting matters," per the court records.

"I want you dead," she allegedly wrote in one message. "I could kill you and it won't even bother me to go to jail and I'll kill any of my kids if they take your side."

In another instance, Karen allegedly threatened her ex, per the criminal complaint, by "telling him to watch out, that she is getting a gun and/or will have someone kill him before he can go to court."

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Karen pleaded not guilty to charges of violating a temporary restraining order, harassment, aggravated stalking and preventing or dissuading a witness from testifying or producing evidence with immediate threat or use of physical force, according to court records.

In response, her attorney Jess Marchese slammed the allegations that her client had sent those emails.

"The allegations are completely false," Marchese previously told Oxygen.com, "and we will prove they were completely fabricated by Mr. Derrico."

Karen is scheduled to return to court Aug. 6, according to court records.

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