With a lawsuit pending, LSU head football coach Brian Kelly couldn’t say much about allegations made by former player Greg Brooks Jr., and his father concerning the ordeal that has left the younger Brooks in the process of relearning how to walk, talk and eat.

But Kelly did take exception to one accusation the elder Brooks’ made during the father-son appearance Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Brooks is suing the university, several football staffers including Kelly, as well as Our Lady Of The Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge and the doctor who performed the surgery that left the former safety cancer-free but with severe disabilities.

It all began in August of 2023 when Brooks started complaining of headaches, dizziness and nausea. The lawsuit blames the LSU training and medical staff for initially diagnosing the condition as vertigo and being slow to request a magnetic resonance imaging.

Brooks played in the first two games of 2023 before the MRI in mid-September revealed a cancerous brain tumor.

The surgery performed the next day at Our Lady of the Lake by Dr. Brandon Gaynor, who was also named in the suit, was successful in removing the malignancy.

But, the lawsuit claims, Gaynor was not qualified to do the surgery, during which Brooks suffered “multiple strokes due to acts of malpractice.”

It left him “permanently disabled,” and Brooks spent time in St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, for further treatment and rehabilitation.

During the interview, the younger Brooks spoke with difficulty and obvious slurring.

But his father called out Kelly, claiming that the family had not heard from anyone on the LSU coaching staff in more than a year.

“My son almost lost his life, coach,” Brooks said on the show. “Where were you? Forget about football. Pick up the phone and say you love the kid, man.”

Kelly responded Wednesday although he explained that he couldn’t say much due to the pending litigation.

“Here’s what I can tell you,” he said. “It is factually incorrect to state that I was not there by Greg’s side during this ordeal. I was there on multiple occasions. We had somebody from my staff that was there virtually every single day.

“We love Greg. We love him for the person that he is, for the competitor that he is and the battler that is and can only wish him continued progress as he goes through an incredibly difficult time.”

Kelly said of Brooks’ father’s accusations: “That comment struck a nerve with me. It hit my heart.”

“You can question me as a coach … in terms of things we do on the field. But, off the field, as a parent, as a husband, as somebody who is actively involved in every community that I’ve been involved with, this is where the line is drawn with me.

“It rattled me that somebody could be so factually incorrect in stating that I was not part of Greg Brooks Jr.’s care and support.”