Lisa Frank’s Son Hunter Explains Why He Has No Relationship with Her: ‘I Knew Something Was Wrong’

James Green and Lisa Frank’s older son has shared his truth.

Hunter Green appears in Amazon MGM Studios’ docuseries Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story, now streaming on Prime Video. During the docuseries, the 29-year-old recalls his parents’ divorce and how it was something he was well aware would eventually happen.

“The divorce happened when I was 10 years old. I remember, I knew my dad wasn’t coming home that night. I just knew something was wrong,” Hunter says.

“I give him a call, even though I knew the answer, I asked him, ‘Hey dad, are you coming home tonight?’ I remember him saying, ‘I’m not coming home tonight buddy.’ ”

Hunter recalls asking James, “Can’t you wait 8 years until I’m 18 years old?”

“It is a long time but as a 10-year-old kid you don’t know any better,” he explains. “There was resentment there, yeah.”

During his upbringing in Tucson, Ariz., Hunter says, “Everybody knows my family is running a big business and has money. So everybody’s under the impression that your life is perfect. It’s the high life. And it was so not like that.”

He also admits to being aware from a young age that “something was wrong with our family.”

“I have no recollection of us sitting down at dinner without an argument. I have no recollection of a birthday that went well. They just didn’t see eye to eye. It was just a broken family, arguing yelling back and forth,” Hunter says.

“It was me and my dad and my mom and [brother] Forrest. There was never a time that we were one big happy family, ever. I knew that the family would split from an early age.”

Hunter says that he and younger brother Forrest Green have two very different relationships with their mom.

“My mom treated Forrest a little differently than me, a little bit softer. She treated him more like her child than me,” he says.

Hunter says Frank put up a “facade” around people to appear like “the coolest mom ever,” but that behind closed doors, things were far more tumultuous.

“She would yell at me, she would scream at me. They would call me a problem child and maybe I’d get in trouble, but that’s because I was so flustered from what was going on at home and everything. I wasn’t a problem child. I wasn’t a bad kid. I was in a bad environment.”

The ultimate disconnect between Hunter and Frank came when she urged him to “Go live with your dad.”

“I felt like she wasn’t giving me encouragement or telling me that she wanted me around. She had struggles of her own that maybe she took out on me. She lost her parents at a early age, maybe that has some traumatic experiences in her head,” he says. “But growing up in her household was not a colorful, magical time.”

In response to the documentary, Frank released a statement which appears in each episode that reads, “I have loved art and have been an artists ever since childhood. Lisa Frank, Inc. is the result of that passion. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing artists and team members who helped bring my vision to life. I’m so excited about the future, as the next generation takes the helm. Stay tuned — the best has yet to come!”

Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story is now streaming on Prime Video.