'I had to pay for years of childcare - with a mortgage like millions of others. They are utterly selfish to have put you in this position and suggest if you have a good relationship with your son talk it out with him.'
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‘I even got gifts and cards sent to the club and it really felt like people were going the extra mile to support me. The feedback from fans, not just the Ross County supporters, came from all around the world.'
He won't allow the episode to sour an outstanding second season at County. His first year in Scotland blighted by Covid-19 restrictions and also homesickness, his fortunes were transformed by the arrival of Malky Mackay as manager last summer.
An engaging, carefree, likeable winger revelling in life at Ross County, laughter comes easily to the top scorer in the Scottish Premiership. On and off the pitch, the 23-year-old is a force of nature. He laughs loudly and often and nothing makes him laugh more than the memories of his parents trying to pull him and his brothers apart like six cats in a sack.
He stated: 'Affluent people can give their kids everything they want, but they're not usually going to get what they need. Loving a child is a lot harder if you really give a d***. "No" takes a lot more energy. It's a lot easier to say "yes."'
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It's hard to begrudge young men living 600 miles from home in an environment so remote from London that it might as well be the dark side of the moon, some home comforts. Not that Regan Charles-Cook necessarily feels any desperate pining need to return to the Big Smoke as soon as the Caledonian Sleeper will take him.
Oldest brother Anthony is a midfielder with Cray Wanderers in the Isthmian League. Reice is a goalkeeper who, like Regan, started out with Arsenal and now plays with National League South Hampton & Richmond Borough. Two of his younger brothers, Roman and Reuben, are on the books of League Two Sutton United.
Somewhere along the way he has even managed to find a surrogate for the five brothers he left behind when he moved to the Scottish Highlands. Before facing Celtic at Parkhead on Saturday, Charles-Cook and his fellow Londoner Joseph Hungbo will spend the hours before the game going through their weekly ritual of psyching each other up. The engine parts driving Ross County's recovery this season, their bond has forged on a slightly surprising rocket fuel.
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‘He used to help out the community in Hackney and help to get the boys off the street. That's why he opened up the gym. To get boys to have a safe space to exercise and box. Since he stopped boxing, he has done so much in that area and has written a book about his experiences as well.
‘I've adjusted to the Highlands,' he insists. ‘This is my home now and when I go to London that feels like the holiday now. Where it used to feel normal, London actually feels like everything goes at 100mph.
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Study his pace and eye for goal now and it's hard to imagine that he was ever anything other than the attacking menace who attracted interest from Aberdeen and Hibs in the January window. Yet, during his early career he was mistaken for a right-back and a central midfielder before Mackay found his natural calling.
While his father played a bit of football, his uncle James Cook MBE held the British and European super-middleweight boxing belts in the early 1990s. When he retired after a 12-year career and 25 victories, he formed the renowned Pedro Youth Club as a haven for disadvantaged kids reared in the gang culture of Hackney's notorious ‘Murder Mile.'
Ross County are happy to offer a platform for the rehabilitation of players who need a budge back up the ladder and, if a return to English football is on the cards, then he will always be grateful to the Staggies for breathing life into a career which started alongside Joe Aribo at Charlton before stalling slightly at Gillingham.
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