Rachel Dolezal's mother: “I think she has some very serious issues, yes"

The parents of the embattled ex-NAACP official spoke with Fox News on Monday night

Published June 16, 2015 12:11PM (EDT)

 Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal (Fox News)
Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal (Fox News)

On "The Kelly File" Monday night, host Megyn Kelly interviewed Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal, the parents of Rachel Dolezal, in an attempt to discover why their daughter would have spent the past twenty years passing as African American.

Kelly decided to begin at the beginning, asking them if their daughter was "born in a teepee." Her father replied that she was not, pointing to his right and saying, "she was born in the room next to us, in our home." He also said that while Rachel didn't grow up hunting for food with a bow and arrow, he did.

Ruthanne said she was shocked to discover in 2007 that her daughter was passing as black. Her father responded to Kelly's question about race being "a more complicated issue than we understand" by agreeing with his daughter, saying it must be "because she has assimilated herself into black culture and the black community for the last twenty years."

Kelly asked about the timing of the revelation, and Rachel's claim that her parents "outed" her because of pending litigation against Isaiah, the adopted brother living with her that she had been calling her son. Ruthanne said that the charges against him "are totally false and malicious, fabricated, and we hope the courts will deal with them as they should be dealt with."

The reason that she and Larry spoke to the media about their daughter's ethnicity was "because she was under investigation from law enforcement in Spokane for claims that she had hate crime-mail in the NAACP mailbox."

Kelly had one more question to ask, "do you think she's pathological?"

Ruthanne replied, "I think she has some very serious issues, yes."

Watch the entire segment below via Fox News.


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