Elle King doesn’t have a good opinion of her father Rob Schneider. She says that he sent her to diet camp when she was a child.
Singer Elle King (35) spoke in a podcast about her broken relationship with her father, actor and comedian Rob Schneider (60). Musician Bunnie XO released a teaser for the new episode of her podcast “Dumb Blonde” on Sunday in which she talks to King about her father. Among other things, he sent her to a diet camp as a child, reports the 35-year-old.
He sent her to diet camp as a child
“I was a really, really heavy kid. My dad sent me to diet camp. And then one year I got in trouble because I sprained my ankle and didn’t lose weight. It was very toxic and very stupid,” says Elle King in the short video clip.
At another point in the teaser, the singer also explains that she hasn’t spoken to her father for “four or five years.” She also disagrees with many of Schneider’s opinions on social issues such as homosexuality and drag. This is one reason why they don’t get along. “I don’t agree with a lot of the things he says,” says King.
Her father wasn’t particularly present during her childhood, says King, who grew up in Ohio with her mother, former model London King, and stepfather Justin Tesa. “If I ever spent a summer with my dad, it would be on a film set. I would just get lost in the fray. If I ever messed up a take, if I ever spoke, I would be in damn trouble.”
According to her, her father also forgot pretty much every birthday. “I spent my 18th birthday at a summer school and they brought me cupcakes, and when I came home my father had forgotten my birthday.”
Rob Schneider became known as an actor through films such as “Rent a Man” (1999), “Hot Chick” (2002) and “Grown Ups” (2010).
Source: Stern
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