When one fan asked how Fred reacted to the firing, Kayla explained that he didn’t have much say in the matter. "Fred needed the money as [he and my mom] had just bought a house," she shared, but noted that this will "probably be his last season."
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Before Fred signed on for another year, the pair talked things out. "He had my blessing," Kayla told the curious Twitter follower. "I’m not going to jeopardize the show, crew members, and production to prove a point."
As Gold Rush: White Water viewers have seen in past episodes, the duo hasn’t always gotten along. "He was a cool person until the moment he married my mom [in 2016]," Kayla said in a 2020 interview with Monsters & Critics.
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"Work Fred and stepdad Fred are two different people," she added. "And I found it very difficult to work with Fred because he’s old school and I’m this know-it-all 30-year-old."
But their relationship improved after Kayla completed her first dive on the show. "Fred was absolutely amazing [in that pivotal moment]," she recalled. "He took control of the com system and was speaking to me. He was calming me down."
The Oregon resident stated that her stepdad is much kinder than he appears on the series. "Fred is the most sincere, genuine, caring person I’ve ever met, truly," she gushed. "And I wish the show kind of depicted that a little more because he would give the shirt off his back to anybody."
New episodes of Gold Rush: White Water air Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on Discovery Channel.
