Roloff Family Feuds: 'LPBW' Fights, Drama, Disagreements

Family drama! The Roloff family is no strangers to drama. Fans have watched some of their family feuds play out on Little People, Big World, while other falling outs have happened behind the scenes.

One feud that has been heavily featured on the TLC show is between Matt Roloff and Amy Roloff. They tied the knot in 1987 and remained married until their divorce was finalized in 2016. While all four of their children – twins Jeremy and Zach, Molly and Jacob – were legal adults by the time of their split, Matt and Amy have remained parts of each other’s lives as they both continue to star on LPBW and work on Roloff Farms.

Both Matt and Amy have been open about their problems with each other, while the Roloff matriarch has cited her ex’s relationship with Caryn Chandler as a sore subject in their relationship.

Meanwhile, Matt wasn’t invited when Amy married Chris Marek in August 2021. She’s also made it clear she “would prefer not” to attend Matt’s wedding to Caryn if they ever become engaged.

Another feud that LPBW fans have watched unfold is between Matt and Zach. The father of three previously expressed interest in buying Roloff Farms from Matt, though was apparently blindsided when the Roloff patriarch put the property on the market for $4 million.

Zach didn’t hide his frustration and slammed Matt in the comments section of an Instagram post announcing the sale. He called out his dad’s “extremely misguided and false” post and shared insight into the family’s feud.

“My dad is manipulating the narrative right before the season comes out,” he wrote via a comment on Matt’s Instagram post in May 2022. “Once again, like he has for most of his life, [he is] not taking responsibility for his own actions and blaming others. Dragging the family drama that he created and then manipulate the fanbase to make himself come out OK. This post is a new shocking low of cowardice and manipulation of his family and kids for his own gain.”

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Matt later admitted in a July 2022 Little People, Big World episode confessional that he was “very disappointed” when the “farm deal fell apart with Zach.”

“It just feels like it just wasn’t meant to be,” he said. “This is one of the toughest decisions of my life. Of course, I’m going to have mixed feelings about it all.”

Keep reading to learn more about the Roloff family’s biggest feuds.

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Matt and Amy

While Matt and Amy’s new romantic relationships put a strain on how they get along, the exes also struggled to find common ground when Matt tried to buy Amy’s portion of Roloff Farms in 2019.
The negotiation process was documented on LPBW. During a September 2020 episode, Amy admitted she was intimidated by Matt as they tried to reach a business deal.
“I don’t know how the mindset like he does and I feel a vulnerability and I do not feel strong or tough … or the confidence that I always thought I had dealing with Matt and I think that’s happened for so many years that yeah, he intimidates me and he can intimidate me very easily or I allow him to do that,” she said. “I don’t think he’s trying to hurt me. I just don’t think he’s aware of what he does.”
Amy said in a July 2022 episode that “if I had known” ex-husband Matt would “eventually sell that north side” of Roloff Farms “to someone outside” the family, she “probably would have hung on to it longer” or “bought him out” before seeing “if one of the kids eventually wanted it.”

“Leaving the farm was a very hard choice and decision for me. But, you know, in the back of my mind and everything else, I had hoped that maybe it would go to one of the kids,” she shared during a confessional, explaining the events that led up to her husband and son’s feud. “You know, they’d be able to negotiate with Matt and one of them would buy it.”

In a preview released ahead of the episode, Amy told a friend that “the pressure I got from him negotiating, I could have stuck it out for more money and said, ‘BS, man.'”

“I was hoping though by [selling him the farm] I would make it more palatable that maybe of one of the kids … I had no inkling, what is happening now … it blows me away,” Amy added.

In the season 23 finale, Matt and Amy butt heads in a big argument about the land sale. “This whole land thing … you really created a hornet’s nest,” she told him in their face-to-face meeting. “There’s 93 acres in this family,” Matt said, with Amy pushing back, “No, there’s 93 acres for Matt Roloff.”

“I don’t see any kind of ownership on Matt’s part,” Amy went on to tell cameras in a confessional.

After the former couple later pointed fingers about their kids’ “entitlement,” Matt said, “I’ve talked a lot about my mistakes. Have you talked about your mistakes?”

Matt and Zach

In addition to voicing his complaints on social media, Zach has spoken about his feud with Matt during season 23 of LPBW. In one episode, Zach said he was “offended” his father wouldn’t sell him a parcel of the farm.
“Knowing we want to grow our family, and Jackson and Lilah are getting older, we want to be somewhere that we can see our family a long time and where we’re at right now is not that place,” Zach claimed in a confessional. He then said he hoped to raise his kids – whom he shares with his wife, Tori Roloff – on the farm, adding, “I think the farm would be a great place for Jackson and Lilah to grow up.”
The feud hasn’t been resolved yet, as Zach recently snubbed Matt on Father’s Day. Later, in July 2022, Matt would open about feeling disappointed that negotiations with Zach fell apart. However, despite the friction, Matt assured Caryn that he was certain selling the farm was the right thing to do.
Tension surrounding the sale of Roloff Farms seems to thicken in a preview clip for a July 2022 episode of the Roloff’s reality TV show.

“Emotions are all over the place as Matt considers selling part of the farm,” TLC captioned the preview post.

In the clip, Matt appeared distressed as he gets closer to selling Roloff Farms. “Do you know how much you’re selling it for?” Amy asked in the video. “I don’t know yet,” Matt Roloff replied.

Zach and Jeremy

Zach and Jeremy always had a sense of sibling rivalry, though they got along when they both starred on LPBW. However, their relationship seemed to change when both brothers expressed interest in taking over Roloff Farms.
While Zach and Tori expressed their interest in buying the farm on the family’s reality show, Jeremy’s wife, Audrey Roloff, revealed that they put an offer in on the property. However, the mother of three said Matt shut down their bid.
In August 2021, an insider told The Sun that Jeremy and Zach were no longer on speaking terms following a blow-out fight. According to the source, Zach didn’t feel Jeremy respected or supported him in the way his family should.

Audrey and Tori

One family feud that hasn’t been discussed on LPBW is between Audrey and Tori.
Neither of the women has confirmed the falling out, though fans have noticed the sister-in-laws don’t seem to get along and regularly ignore each other on social media. Suspicions of their feud grew when Tori didn’t publicly acknowledge Audrey and Jeremy’s third pregnancy announcement in July 2021.