Gospel singer Kirk Franklin has opened up about the relationship between him and his eldest son, Kerrion, following a

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appeared on the Tamron Hall Showyesterday (March 17) alongside his wife, Tammy Collins, to publicly address hisrelationship with Kerrion, 33, for the time.

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Franklin said Terrion had been in and out of therapy for over two decades and

that his aggression towards the Stomp

singer increased as he grew older.

Franklin told Hall, “Now that he’s about to

be 33 as a grown man the relationship at times can become very agitated and

very frustrated…but I’m not going to stop trying to help.

“He’s my son, he’s my firstborn, and I never want him to feel what I felt not having a father…It’s important for me because what if that call is the call that things change.”

Despite expressing regret at the language

used to address his son in the leaked audio, which he apologised for in an

Instagram video on the weekend, Franklin said he is not his son’s equal.

“I respect Kerrion. I’m not Kerrion’s equal

though. I’m not his equal, I’m his dad,” he said firmly. “And when you talk to

me, especially about things that you say that you want from me, I can’t hear

you when you are extremely aggressive when we’re communicating, and that’s why

a lot of times, Kerrion and I haven’t talked sometimes for a year or two.”

He shared that their relationship has been “toxic”

but that he should have responded better. “In that fight, it can become so

difficult that my humanity, unfortunately, that day, won,” he said. “And I’m

going to keep trying, while still continuing to admit that I am an imperfect

man fighting to serve a perfect God.”