Laura Ingraham has by no means been a stranger to controversy, so it is most likely no shock that elements of her private life have been fairly messy, too. Making issues all of the extra scandalous, certainly one of her fiercest critics is her brother Curtis Ingraham — a large blow as, as soon as upon a time, she spoke about how he taught her to be extra tolerant. 

It is hardly an untold reality that Ingraham has been referred to as out for homophobia on many events. Nonetheless, what some could not bear in mind is that again in 1997, she used a Washington Submit op-ed to share how studying Curtis was homosexual and assembly his associate and their associates had pressured her to rethink lots of her views. In actual fact, Laura even admitted that she’d come to really feel dangerous about elements of an investigation she’d arrange throughout her Dartmouth Evaluate days. ICYMI, Laura had gotten certainly one of her reporters to attend an nameless Homosexual College students Affiliation assembly so they may report again on what had been talked about. Maybe unsurprisingly, the write-up had used extremely inflammatory language, and Laura wrote in The Washington Submit, “I now remorse that at Dartmouth we did not contemplate how callous rhetoric can wound.” 

Fortunately for Laura, even along with her shady background, Curtis had been extremely gracious in direction of her, and he or she shared in her op-ed that they turned nearer after he got here out. She additionally shared that she’d been by his late associate’s aspect as he confronted AIDS-related sicknesses, and he or she admitted that she’d been devastated to listen to Curtis inform hospital workers he was his associate’s caretaker. “Though I understood the phrase had change into a part of the AIDS lexicon by necessity, figuring out what that they had been by means of collectively made it sound antiseptic, nearly an insult,” she wrote. Sadly, it appears sooner or later Laura’s tolerance stage reverted considerably, and this time, Curtis wasn’t as forgiving. 

Laura Ingraham and her brother could have been shut after he got here out to her, but it surely’s secure to say that is modified. In actual fact, again in 2018, Curtis Ingraham launched on a months-long social media campaign in opposition to her. 

The primary of Curtis’ very public condemnations of his sister got here in February 2018. In response to a video rant in opposition to Laura posted to The Breakdown’s Fb web page, Curtis made it clear they weren’t on good phrases. “Our father was a Nazi sympathizer, racist, anti-Semite and homophobe. Like father like daughter? I can solely apologize for conduct that’s past the pale,” he wrote within the feedback part. Yikes. 

A couple of months later, Curtis doubled down on his claims that their dad had fostered a really illiberal setting of their residence rising up, and he painted a tragic image of the Ingraham family. In an interview with “Vice Information,” he recounted, “We have been raised in a household that was very abusive — alcoholic father, a Nazi sympathizer. I bear in mind discovering a replica of ‘Mein Kampf’ on the bookshelf, and I discovered a Nazi armband, a Nazi helmet within the cellar. There was a Accomplice flag. That is the familial soil.” In response to that, a spokesperson for Fox Information confirmed to “Vice” that Curtis was estranged from Laura and the remainder of their household. Granted, the assertion did have some shady wording in it, too. “The household hasn’t seen Curtis in years and is extraordinarily anxious about him — they discover it very unhappy to see him exploited by media shops for their very own political ends,” it learn. 

Laura Ingraham has by no means made a secret of the truth that she adopted her children. In actual fact, she’s spoken very overtly about adopting internationally, and he or she even gave an interview to The Wrap concerning the significance of conserving politics out of the method. An essential sentiment, little question. Nonetheless, let’s simply say the richest feminine Fox anchor’s feedback did not precisely give her brother the nice and cozy and fuzzies. 

Talking to “Vice Information,” Curtis Ingraham lashed out at his sister’s stance on immigration, calling it hypocritical. In response to Laura’s now-infamous criticism of immigration (ICYMI, she lamented that immigrants have been being “foisted upon the American folks”), Curtis clapped again, “She mentioned that letting immigrants in may change or dilute our nationwide expertise, our American lifestyle. And I assumed, ‘Hypocrite. You’ve gotten three adopted youngsters. One from Guatemala, two from Russia. How will you make an announcement like that and sit there and know that you’ve children which are themselves from different nations?'” 

It would not be the final time Curtis used Laura’s children to make a degree. In 2019, he referred to as her out for her assaults on Greta Thunberg. Taking to X (then generally known as Twitter), he ranted, “Clearly my sister’s paycheck is extra essential than the world her three adopted children will inherit.” It does bear mentioning that on this explicit occasion, Curtis himself was criticized, too — and never simply by those that sided with Laura’s perspective. “So petty to name her children ‘adopted.’ If she adopted them, they’re her children. This tells me all I must learn about you,” wrote one pissed off X consumer. Laura didn’t reply.

One significantly unhappy element concerning the drama between Laura Ingraham and Curtis Ingraham is that again within the ’90s, the previous had spoken about her political views and private emotions not at all times lining up neatly. Particularly, in her op-ed for The Washington Submit, she referenced a tense trade she had with then-congressman Barney Frank, noting that he’d been livid to be taught of her involvement within the Homosexual College students Affiliation scandal. She added that Frank had been unmoved by her retort that she’d been supportive of her brother and his associate. “The disconnect between my public persona (the caricature of conservatives as unwaveringly illiberal towards gays) and my private life (my relationship with my brother) hit me like a proper hook,” she wrote. 

Laura went on to put in writing about how she was making an attempt to reconcile her public and private lives and concluded that she’d stopped being as dismissive of homosexual marriage. She additionally hinted at Curtis with the ability to see past her politics, writing, “I used to be glad to know that, regardless of my in-your-face political/journalistic agenda throughout school, he trusted me sufficient to speak in confidence to me.” 

What a distinction just a few years make. In his 2018 “Vice” interview, Curtis clarified that he not believed there was any distinction between Laura’s private and non-private personas. “Somebody requested me, ‘Is that basically your sister? Is she simply taking part in a media persona?’ and I feel it’s who she has change into,” he nodded sadly. After all, he hasn’t confirmed that IRL, since they’re estranged, and he advised the outlet he wasn’t open to a dialog simply but. No shock, there — he’d beforehand advised The Every day Beast, “She doesn’t pay attention to grasp — she listens to reply. And her response is at all times an assault.”

Within the wake of the whole lot her brother has mentioned (and continues to say) about her, it is most likely no shock that Laura Ingraham has spoken out — and we’re not simply speaking about her aforementioned assertion to “Vice” through Fox. 

Talking to The Every day Beast, she shared comparable sentiments, although this time with out a shady “We’re anxious about him” line. “My siblings and I are shocked and saddened to be taught of those false and hurtful on-line postings. Though we have been estranged from him for a few years, we love our brother and miss him very a lot,” she advised the outlet. Suffice it to say, the message wasn’t precisely taken to coronary heart. Along with his feedback throughout his “Vice” interview, which aired after Laura gave an announcement to The Every day Beast, Curtis Ingraham has continued to trash his superstar sibling on social media. He is not simply weighing in on her most controversial musings, both. Curtis commonly posts direct responses to Laura’s X posts, tagging her as he does so. 

We guess time will inform if these two ever handle to take a seat down and work issues out. Nonetheless, at the very least on the time of this writing, we’re not banking on the siblings seeing eye to eye anytime quickly. 

Given the whole lot Laura Ingraham’s brother has mentioned about her, it could make sense to suppose that lots of her former relationships (familial or in any other case) ended on a really acrimonious observe. Nonetheless, it would not appear as if that is the case. 

Although Laura has by no means walked down the aisle, she has been in two critical relationships — and at the very least one led to an engagement. That exact relationship, with James V. Reyes, ended whereas she was receiving most cancers remedy. Nonetheless, chatting with C-SPAN in 2005, she had nothing however good issues to say about her ex. “It was for the very best, and he is really a very good man and I really like his household. So we’re each good,” she shared. Likewise, she’s additionally spoken extremely of ex-boyfriend Dinesh D’Souza, going so far as vouching for his character to a decide whereas he was dealing with authorized woes. After all, it’s value noting that at the very least in D’Souza’s case, their politics intently aligned. As many know, D’Souza is the filmmaker behind a number of right-wing documentaries, in addition to a political commentator in his personal proper (and, notably, was concerned in the identical Homosexual College students Affiliation scandal as Ingraham — each of them have been editors at Dartmouth Evaluate on the time). 

With neither Laura nor Curtis sharing when precisely their sibling feud started, we will not speculate over whether or not the previous’s continued friendship with D’Souza (who is not particularly remorseful over the Homosexual College students Affiliation scandal) performed any half in it. Nonetheless, it is pretty secure to say that Curtis would not imagine his sister has modified all that a lot from her days at Dartmouth, in spite of everything.