About His Dad

Joel then admitted that his relationship with Richard Mason was complicated and that the two had not spoken to each other in over three years. What was surprising, however, is that the origins of their long-lasting dispute was not Mason’s feud with his mother.

On the contrary, it was his father’s behavior that led Joel to this decision. “He’s a very manipulative man, not the kind of person you want to be with,” he revealed. It was something that Joel noticed as early as age 15, so Mason may have been wrong about why his two sons had decided to stop talking to him.