One photo of Billy and Ami Brown has ignited two controversies.
First, as previously reported, Alaskan Bush People fans analyzed the photo below on Facebook and determined that Ami Brown is in Colorado with her family.
Why would this be cause for controversy?
Because Brown sadly has stage four lung cancer and she had been spending the past several months in California, under the best doctor supervision possible.
Would her loved ones really have moved her away just so they could start filming a new season of Alaskan Bush People?
It’s unclear, but there has been a lot of talk these days that filming will resume shortly.
Elsewhere, meanwhile, other fans who took a close look at the picture above focused less on where Billy and Ami are and more on a certain something in the former’s pocket:
Yes, that’s a pack of cigarettes.
And, yes, as previously mentioned Ami has lung cancer.
Put those two facts together and you can understand why folks are peeved, can’t you?
“He actually has a pack of smokes in his pocket?” one person asked in the Comments section of Facebook in response to the image.
Added another critics:
“Ohhhhh wait…. I thought none of them smoked, and Ami’s cancer is from cooking over all of those campfires for 30 years. I guess he forgot to hide his smokes.”
As you can see below, though, Billy does have his defenders.
We can’t really know what someone in his situation is going through, can we?
We need to be careful when we judge others.
Earlier this year, Billy opened up to People Magazine about the struggles he and his kids are going through.
Whoile gushing over his sick wife at the same time.
“She’s the strongest person I know, so if she’s saying it hurts, it really hurts,” the reality star said, adding at the time:
“She tries to hide it from everybody but four or five times a day she bends over like a baby and cries. She bends over and tears run down.
“She put out seven babies without a grunt. I’ve always had a lot of respect for Ami, but I’ve got a lot more now.
“She makes me feel like a wuss.”
This is then what Ami said in her own interview with People:
“Worrying about it only makes it worse. There is hope and that hope is having faith in God. You can’t give up. I tell people be happy. Just be happy. It’s a choice.
“Things can be hard and you just want to curl up but you have to shine.”
We wish her nothing but the best.