Simone Biles’ birth mother criticized for refusing to call gymnast despite claiming she wanted to reconcile with her

Simone Biles’ biological mother says she hosted a celebration in her Ohio backyard where her family and friends could join her as she cheered on the daughter she allegedly abandoned throughout the Paris Olympics.

The 143 cm tall athlete didn’t disappoint – she won three gold medals and one silver in international competitions, thus retaining the title of essentially the most decorated American gymnast of all time.

In an exclusive interview Speaking to DailyMail.com, her mother, Shannon Biles, said she was left with the difficult reality that she would have to have a good time in Columbus and never with her daughter, Olympian, son-in-law, Jonathan Owens, or Simone’s adoptive parents.

Shannon has been estranged from Simone for years, ever since she was adopted as a baby by Ronald Biles, their biological grandfather, and his wife Nellie. But the bad blood between Shannon and her talented daughter goes back to the difficult years when she suffered from addiction and when her children were taken away from her.

“It was hard for me to abandon my kids, but I had to do what I had to do,” Shannon said, before admitting, “I wasn’t able to take care of them. I was still using, and (my father) didn’t want me coming in and out of their lives when I wasn’t OK.”

While Simone and her younger sister Adria went with their father and stepmother Shannon, her other two older children, son Tevin, 29, and daughter Ashley, 34, stayed in Cleveland with their aunt, Ron’s sister.

Now sober, Shannon is being slowly and thoroughly welcomed back into the family. She says she now speaks often to her father and youngest daughter Adria. But not to Simone. The gymnast has not provided her mother with any way back into her life, much to her mother’s disappointment.

“I would personally like to repair things with Simone,” said Shannon, who can be patiently waiting for her younger daughter. “I talk to Adria more than I do to Simone. I would just ask her to forgive me. Can we move forward? Don’t judge me by my past. Let’s move forward.”

However, Simone, who spoke openly about it, struggles with anxiety and mental health, he seems to still be nursing scars from his past.

In her Facebook Watch series titled “Simone vs. Herself,” she didn’t shrink back from reminiscing about her difficult childhood years before her grandparents got here along.

“Growing up, my siblings and I were so focused on food because we didn’t have a lot of it,” she recalled. “I remember there was a cat in the house and I was so hungry. They were feeding the cat and I was like, ‘Where the hell is my food?’”

To make matters worse, Simone recalls that her mother seemed to favor the cat greater than her own children, stating that she “always fed the cat, but never us.”

Things got so bad that at age 3, Simone and her siblings were placed in foster care until Ron and Nellie adopted Simone and Adria when Simone was just 6. That decision paved the best way for Simone’s storied profession, but memories of her neglect proceed to haunt her, appearing in nearly every interview about her life.

“Her mother had a lot of issues — whether it was drugs or alcohol,” Ron told NBC in 2016. “The kids were eventually taken away from her. We took them in like family because they were family.”

Ron reportedly not only took the ladies away from their mother, but additionally cut off contact with her because he didn’t want Shannon to disrupt the brand new life he and his wife had created for her children.

However, the only mother had mixed feelings concerning the way her past was portrayed, especially by her father and stepmother.

In 2016, she told TMZ Sports, “I feel like they’re defaming my character. Because I know what happened.” Shannon said, “I had problems then, but I’m better now. Life goes on and it’s my past, it should stay in the past.”

Shannon feels her father might have been way more gentle when talking about her addiction or sharing her struggles with the press.

“I feel like he didn’t have to be so harsh about it. I’m his firstborn and he could have been a little more elegant,” she told TMZ. “He didn’t have to beat me up like that. I mean, I’ve been through my struggles and everything, but you didn’t have to go through it the way you did.”

Now 52, ​​Shannon is more understanding and admits that her father’s strict love was obligatory.

“I was stubborn. I didn’t care, I was screaming, I want to see my children, why are you doing this to me?” I didn’t understand on the time, but years later I understood why. I had to deal with myself first,” she said.

Shannon’s best hope is that after greater than 20 years of separation, Simone will finally forgive her.

“I’m waiting for an opportunity, but I’m waiting until it can come to me. Let’s sit down. I have to be patient,” she said.

Shannon told the Daily Mail that as well as to repairing her relationship with Simone, she hopes Simone will reconnect with her biological father, Kevin Clemons.

“We both want to see her. I talk to him all the time. He says, ‘If you talk to Simone, give her my number. I’d love to talk to her,'” but the fact is she cannot do it herself and can have little opportunity in a broken relationship to bring them together.

“I want her to reach out to me,” Shannon said of Simone. “She’s 27 now. She’s married. I’d love to be a part of it, but I have to wait for her. You can’t push anyone.”

Shannon said she hopes at some point she can “talk” to Simone and answer questions Simone might need about her childhood and the sordid details of her drug- and alcohol-addicted mother’s parenting decisions.

“I am addicted, I will always be addicted,” Shannon exclaimed.

The day after Shannon’s interview was published, Spiritual Word quoted fasting from Biles, hitting back at people for buying her an expensive Hermes Birking bag. She said: “My parents bought me an Hermes bag. Don’t be mad at me, be mad at your parents.”

However, many took it as a rather snide comment to her biological mother. One person said: “It wasn’t for us, it was for her biological mother,” while one other added: “She’s basically telling the woman who birthed her, ‘She’s the good one here.’”