Lydia Plath wants viewers of last week’s season-eight finale episode of Welcome to Plathville to have a little bit of context before they judge her husband Zac Wyse.
In a video posted to her social media channels on Friday, Lydia addressed criticism over Zac interrupting her during a confessional interview.
“I don’t watch the show. I don’t need to see an edited, dramatized version of something I already lived through, but I have gotten lots of messages and I did see a clip that I thought it would be good to bring you guys in on some context,” she began. “Personal, it’s quite ironic that one week I’m getting all of these messages saying, ‘How dare you judge your family’ for things which I’ve apologized for, everything’s good, and then the next week people messaging me saying, judging my husband saying I need to leave him, like, what? Don’t get me started.
“So I thought I would just bring some context to an interview you guys saw at the end of the season where, ‘Oh my goodness, your husband interrupted you, how dare you,’” Lydia continued. “OK, so, I had been in the interview chair for 14 hours that day, I was completely exhausted, completely drained, Zac had been there for seven hours, we were both just emotionally shot, you can see our eyes are literally red just from, yeah, being emotionally drained, and it had been like five repeated questions that I was just like, ‘I’m so done. Next question. I have nothing to say to this.’
“It was like the fifth time of me saying that that Zac was like, ‘Please, just get to the question,’ because he knew he had to get up early for work in like six hours and if I continued this, we were never going to get out,” she went on. “So, he answered the question and he did a great job, better than I could have in the moment because my mind was fried, and so, that happened, and people are so upset that my husband interrupted me, but I’ve also interrupted my husband as well, and, like, isn’t that marriage where you do things, you get on each other’s nerves, you do things the other person didn’t like and you’re like, ‘Hey, I appreciate if that didn’t happen again,’ you apologize and you grow, that’s marriage, and my husband and I are learning what marriage looks like, we are still newlyweds, I guess.
“Also, on top of that, like, just imagine this, the whole interview that day was 14 hours, the entire season is 14 hours, so maybe that would give you a little context of how much is edited” Lydia added. “Anyway, so I hope that just brings a little context to you guys, I was not offended by my husband answering the question because I, emotionally, couldn’t. For people to be messaging me saying I need to leave my husband and these things is absolutely insane.”
All of this was in response to Lydia and Zac’s interviews with producers following a tense sit-down with most of the Plaths regarding the couple’s judgement toward the family and Zac’s habit of telling family members, particularly the youngest sisters, how he felt certain things they were doing were wrong.
“I just hope next time, if conflict does arise, that I’m not misunderstood, I guess,” Zac said in the confessional.
“How are you going to ensure that you’re not misunderstood?” a producer asked.
“Well, at this point, I can’t think about if,” Lydia responded before Zac jumped it to say, “Let me answer, please. Yeah, I mean, if we’re continued to be misunderstood, then we just won’t keep trying.”
As viewers of the series have seen over the past few seasons, Zac and the Plaths have had a rocky road. Season of eight of ‘Welcome to Plathville’ began with Lydia confronting her family over their treatment of Zac, including their judgement of him and the way they acted around the couple’s wedding, as The Ashley reported.
“Before their wedding, I was just saying what I saw and what I felt,” brother Ethan told viewers in the season eight premier. “Just like Isaac and Micah, we were just encouraging Lydia to not rush into something, especially with not knowing really what their physical attraction is.”
Then there was the fight between brothers Micah and Isaac following the wedding that led to Micah being hospitalized. Last week’s episode was filmed on the first anniversary of the wedding and the fight. In a confessional interview, Lydia said of the day, “A year ago today was one of the hardest days of my life, so, I’m just kind of in a cloud right now. That’s that.”
Following the sit down with the family, and an immediate-family-only memorial for late brother Joshua, the episode continued with the Plaths pulling together an impromptu celebration for Lydia and Zac’s anniversary.
Lydia finished out the episode talking in confessional about her relationship with her family and what she hopes for the future, saying, “We’ve all definitely come a long way since what happened last year at this time. You know, there have been rough patches, but it’s ultimately been good, and we’ll, you know, continue growing and continue to just leaving it open-ended without any expectations. I think that’s the biggest thing we’ve learned, cause you’ll just wind up hurt and confused. Honestly, I’m tired of working on relationships, I just kind of want to be for a little bit, and see who floats in and out of my life, see who comes over, with no expectations.”
Last month, Lydia and Zac announced they were moving from Florida to Colorado, which will make it a little harder for her family members to “float in.”
‘Plathville’ fans were also critical of the couple’s move and accused Zac of separating his wife from her family. Lydia addressed those views in Friday’s post as well.
“Also, my husband didn’t, like, just take me away from my family,” she said. “I’ve always loved Colorado, I’ve wanted to move here since I was, like, 12, and all my older siblings have moved away, so I don’t know why me moving away from my family is different from my other siblings moving away, like, doesn’t everyone leave the nest and grow?”
(Photos: TLC; Instagram)
3 Responses
Lydia and Zac are the only 2 I like. I can’t stand Ethan, he is weird as ****. You 2 are doing the right thing by moving far away, good luck to both of you. Anyone seen Micah’s lately, if so you now know why he isn’t on the show anymore.
I defended Zac because I literally hate the Plath’s and I hate the way they took such joy bullying him for no reason.
People aren’t reacting to the polite interruption (according to her) For me I think he is judgmental and can be condescending if you don’t do exactly what he thinks you should do, say or think. Lydia was raised to be a meek and submissive trad wife. Zac would not be married to anyone who would stand up for themselves.
Exactly. I felt similarly. He’s a stereotype in the evangelical community. Frankly, they both are. He’s been prepped his whole life to think he’s something special in the eyes of God. Those who’ve dubbed him “youth pastor” are pretty spot on.
It is annoying to the outside, “real” world that this guy thinks the knowledge of the world rests on his shoulders now that he’s married. He’s a MAN now! Hopefully life humbles him as it does to all of us and he keeps his trap shut.