Brody Jenner says Caitlyn recently apologized for 'first time' over 'invasive' “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”

Brody Jenner is sharing an update on his complicated relationship with Caitlyn Jenner and their family's fame.

"Just recently, I got a real sincere apology," Brody said on Wednesday's edition of Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. “That was the first time in my life that I've ever gotten an apology, you know, I'm sorry for not being there. And, honestly, it meant a lot."

Over the years, Brody has been open about feeling that Caitlyn was not always there for him. The former star of The Hills has even gone as far as saying that he hoped to be the "exact opposite" type of parent to his own daughter. He and fiancée Tia Blanco welcomed Honey Raye on July 29, 2023.

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After Brody performed well as a leader in a challenge on the reality competition, members of the DS, or directing staff, called him in to see what was behind his drive. The conversation quickly turned to his family and what it had been like for him growing up.

"I had an incredible mother," Brody said of Linda Thompson. But he added that Caitlyn "wasn't around that much." And after his parents split, Caitlyn "met a woman. She had kids as well, the one that he met, and then they had kids together."

Of course, he was referring to Kendall and Kylie Jenner as those kids. With Caitlyn's marriage to Kris Jenner in 1991, Brody himself became stepbrother to Rob, Khloé, Kim, and Kourtney Kardashian — who made up the cast of the popular Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The E! reality show aired from 2007 to 2021 — Brody appeared in some episodes — and many incarnations followed.

When the DS asked how that had made him feel, Brody admitted that he felt "a bit abandoned" over those years, but acknowledged that Caitlyn also had personal struggles when she was transitioning. "Then all that was put on TV. And there were these moments that we would have, and it was all filmed," he said. "It felt very invasive and not very genuine."

Brody shared in a confessional interview that when he found out that Caitlyn wanted to transition "it was sort of a relief" and that "there were a lot of things that started to make sense" about why his parent had not been as present for him.

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"I think when you have kids, you need to accept a little bit of the responsibility that the things you do are also going to reflect on them as well," he remarked. "I think it really has shaped me to do everything different. And to really be there and to be present to my little girl."

In the last minutes of the episode, it became clear that not everyone in the cast had been aware of who Brody was, even at that point. Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton told another recruit that he'd just figured out the connection and now sees how much Brody resembles Caitlyn.

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"I never put two and two together,” Newton told Golden Tate, another former NFL standout. “I knew exactly who he was. I remember watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians 10 years ago and seeing him."

They imagined the situation was difficult for the reality star.

“That’s intense right there, man," Tate said.

Special Forces airs Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.

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