Kim Plath is willing to speak about her late son, Joshua, but chatting about him with son-in-law Zac Wyse is anything but fun.
“I’m aware that Zac likes to have really deep conversations, but I don’t know that ‘excited’ is the word I’d pick,” Kim, 53, tells the cameras in Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek on the Welcome to Plathville season 8 finale, airing Tuesday, June 16.
Despite being uncomfortable, Kim sits down with Zac, 24, who tries to elucidate how “excited” his wife, Lydia Plath, is to “just have the opportunity to share this along with her family who experienced it along with her.”
Zac reveals it’s “awesome” and “great” that Kim is willing to seek advice from not only Lydia, 22, but everyone else about Joshua, after Lydia claimed her parents never spoke about him once he died. (Joshua died in 2008 when he was 17 months old following an accident on the family farm during which Kim was driving and ran him over.)
Kim Plath and Zac Wyse. TLC; Instagram
“I’ve given up trying to sort things and make every relationship work and each relationship perfect,” Lydia tells the cameras, noting that only “time” will tell whether Kim and Zac “decide to spend time together and grow or not.”
Zac, for his part, says in a confessional that he doesn’t “understand” Kim and the way she “operates.”
“I’m trying to know lots of the choices she’s making, however it just doesn’t click for me,” he admits, seemingly referring to Kim’s alternative to not relive her heartbreak with Joshua publicly like Lydia did during a January podcast. (Lydia’s brother Ethan Plath, meanwhile, revealed during a June episode that he doesn’t prefer to speak about Joshua “publicly unless it’s remembering him for who he was when he was alive,” saying it was “disrespectful” to talk about his actual death.)
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Zac and Kim stumble through their conversation, with Zac telling his mother-in-law, “Grief is unquestionably more complicated, I feel like, at times.”
Kim explains throughout the heart-to-heart that she’s going to “at all times be a parent that lost a baby.”
She notes, “There’s no amount of considering, talking, writing, what, praying, anything that would change that.”
Kim reveals that she appears like she “lost a lot” of her life throughout the yr after Joshua’s death that she doesn’t prefer to return there.
Zac Wyse and Lydia Plath. TLC
“You don’t need to be in that place again,” Zac says, to which Kim replies, “Yeah.”
Kim, nonetheless, notes that if her other nine children, whom she shares with ex-husband Barry Plath, do “need me to return there for some time, I’ll do it.”
Zac is completely happy to listen to that, responding, “That’s good,” since his wife has been asking Kim to speak about Joshua an increasing number of.
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“Lydia over the previous few years just worked really hard to actually just be seen within the family. And I don’t feel like Kim really attempt to see her or tried to even see [her],” Zac tells the cameras, getting choked up. “I don’t need to speak about this because I don’t. I can defend my wife, but in all honesty, I don’t know what they’ve been through. Period.”
Kim, meanwhile, says in her confessional that she understands where Zac is “coming from and he means well,” but she’s still unsure what he “needs from me so as to feel accepted [and] loved.”
Welcome to Plathville’s season 8 finale premieres on TLC Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET.