Katie Ritchie has an older brother and three younger siblings. During her September 2023 appearance on the “C&Whit Podcast,” she revealed that her three younger siblings had all been placed in foster care and were living with an uncle. She said this was because her stepfather had put methadone in a bottle of Gatorade, which her youngest sibling, Eli, took a drink from. While giving her TikTok followers the short version of her life story, Ritchie said that the drug almost killed him, and her mother and stepfather were ordered to undergo court-ordered rehab.
Sadly, her stepdad died of an overdose not long after his rehab stint ended. Ritchie was present when her siblings learned the news. “Dylan, the one I basically raised, like that was actually my child, was the same age that I was when I found out my dad died,” she said on “Was That TMI?”
In addition to losing her husband, Ritchie’s mother was unable to regain custody of her children immediately. But after an August 2023 court hearing, a tearful Ritchie took to TikTok to tell her followers that the kids were returning home with them. “I literally can’t stop crying,” she said. She revealed that her siblings had spent over a year in foster care. In another video, Ritchie confessed to being removed from the courtroom for wearing a dress with spaghetti straps. Luckily, they brought along a long-sleeved blouse that made her outfit dress code compliant.
