Days after country music star Elle King blasted her famous father, actor and comedian Rob Schneider, for the way he raised her, he has responded.
While appearing on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast with Bunnie Xo, the 35-year-old singer said that she would “go for like four or five years without talking to my dad.”
“If I would ever spend a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set,” she said. “I would just get lost in the shuffle.”
“You are talking out of your (expletive) and you’re talking (expletive) about drag and you know, anti-gay rights,” she said. “And it’s like, get (expletive).”
She also revealed more apparently scarring interactions with Schneider.
“I was like a really, really heavy child,” she said. “My dad sent me to fat camp… and then I got in trouble one year because I sprained my ankle and didn’t lose any weight.”
She said Schneider would make her wear sweaters to hide her tattoos as well.
“He’s just not nice,” she said. “You can want someone to change so much. You can’t control anyone else’s actions and you can’t control people’s feelings. All you can control is how you react and what you do with your feelings.”
Schneider sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday and he addressed King’s words.
“I want to just tell my daughter, Elle — I love you and I wish I was the father in my 20s that you needed, and I clearly wasn’t,” he said. “And I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings. I love you completely. I love you entirely.”
Schneider said he just wanted King to “be well and happy with you and your beautiful baby.”
“I wish you the best,” he said. “I feel terrible, and I just want you to know that I don’t take anything you say personally.”
King began the year with a controversial performance at the Grand Ole Opry.
She showed up on stage as the Opry celebrated Dolly Parton’s birthday and told fans she was “hammered.” She then proceeded to butcher some songs.
One of those songs was Parton’s “Marry Me,” and fans apparently had good reason to not be pleased.
According to reports, she admitted during the performance that she did not know the lyrics to the song and told fans, “Don’t tell Dolly cause it’s her birthday.”
She reportedly followed that by saying, “I’m not even gonna (expletive) lie … ya’ll bought tickets for this (expletive), you ain’t getting your money back.”
The Opry apologized and King cancelled a handful of shows.
She has returned to performing, and during a recent appearance on Chelsea Handler’s podcast she discussed the incident.
“So, I did a big no, no,” she told Handler. “I not only cussed onstage, hammered at the Grand Ole Opry, but it was Dolly Parton’s birthday, and the Opry was doing a Dolly Parton tribute,” she said. “I haven’t spoken about it because, one, I had to chill. It was a big deal.
“I had been going through something very heavy and traumatic in my life at the time, and that day was a really big day dealing with what I was going through, and I’m still going through, and I suffer from like severe PTSD,” she added.
King said she was not originally supposed to perform, but another singer backed out, and she was asked to fill in.
“I take one shot too many and I’m just not there in my body,” she said. “I’m not there. I don’t remember it. I know now what I said. I said, ‘I’m Elle King, and I’m (expletive) hammered.’ I got the curtain dropped on me. I just get flashes of this. I was totally, 100 percent disassociated. I just cut to the dressing room, me on the floor just sobbing, ‘What have I done?’ And then the next day it was like everywhere.
“Everywhere.”
King said she was “mortified” and wrote Parton an apology letter and then called her.
She said that Parton is “literally proof that angels exist.”
“She just gave me really kind words and told me, ‘Well, Dolly’s not made at you, why should the world be?’” she said.
“That’s the stuff that I’ll never forget,” she added. “Because I wanted to (expletive) die.”
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