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Elle King shared perception into her at-times troublesome childhood because the daughter of Hollywood star Rob Schneider, telling an interviewer her father is “just not nice.”
The nation musician revealed that she would go “four or five years without talking to” her father whereas chatting with Jelly Roll’s spouse, BunnieXO, on her “Dumb Blonde” podcast.
“Your dad is one of my childhood crushes,” Bunnie informed King, 35, of the “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” actor.
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Elle King shared particulars about rising up because the daughter of actor Rob Schneider. (Getty Images)
King described her relationship along with her father as having a singular ebb and stream: “I put out my record and people finally started asking about my dad,” she mentioned. “My dad called me, and was like, ‘Don’t f—ing talk about me in the press.'”
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She remembered, “If I would ever spend a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set. I would just get lost in the shuffle. If I ever messed up a shot, if I ever was talking, like, I would get in f—ing trouble.”
Bunnie requested, “Did you ever feel like you guys could connect?” King mentioned, “Not till I was much, much older.”
The “Ex’s & Oh’s” singer recalled, “I was, like, a really, really heavy child. My dad sent me to fat camp, and then I got in trouble one year because I sprained my ankle and I didn’t lose any weight.”
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She added, “Very toxic and very silly.”
Elle is the daughter of Rob Schneider and mannequin London King. (Getty Images)
In one other excerpt, King remembered, “I had already started getting tattooed, and it was like 108 degrees, so I was having to wear sweaters because my dad was very anti-tattoos or like any form of self-expression that differed from what he wanted.
“I used to be like a extremely, actually heavy youngster. My dad despatched me to fats camp, after which I bought in hassle one 12 months as a result of I sprained my ankle and I did not lose any weight.”
“I disagree with a number of the issues that he says. You’re speaking out your a–, and also you’re speaking sh– about drag and, you realize, anti-gay rights, and it is like … get f—ed. I need to use this chance to say I disagree. I don’t agree with what he says.”
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Bunnie chimed in to ask, “Did your dad ever strive that can assist you?” to which Elle said, “No, he by no means helped me. I by no means needed his assist.”
“He additionally did not have an excellent popularity. I do not need to be related to him. He’s simply not good. You can need somebody to alter a lot; you may’t management anybody else’s actions. You cannot management folks’s emotions. All you may management is the way you react and what you do together with your emotions, and generally I f—ing boil up, and I boil over and I f—ing bust my lid.
King has been nominated for a number of Grammy awards and earned an Academy of Country Music Award for “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” in 2020. (Getty Images)
“You try every different angle. I would try letters. I would try soft. I would try yelling … my dad forgot about every single birthday. I spent my 18th birthday in a summer school, and they brought me cupcakes, and I came home and my dad forgot my birthday.”
“You’re killing my fantasy of Rob here,” Bunnie let the nation singer know, to which she mentioned, “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
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“It’s done. It’s over with. It’s done. I’m Team Elle,” Bunnie mentioned.
Representatives for Schneider will not be commenting on King’s claims presently.
