"I got a couple of text messages about it, so I'm not going to sit here and lie and say I didn't hear about it," he said of the criticism. "But that's the awesome part about being blessed about being a parent, is you get that choice. My wife and I discussed it, and we felt the best thing for our family was for me to try to stay for an extra day, that being Wednesday, due to the fact that she can't travel for two weeks ... just to have that support system with her."