Rob Schneider apologizes to daughter Elle King for ‘toxic’ parenting

Rob Schneider broke his silence two days after his daughter, Elle Kingpublicly criticized his parenting and comments he made about the LGBTQIA+ community.

Schneider, 60, apologized in an interview with Tucker Carlson which will appear on Thursday, August 15 on Carlson’s TCN. The conservative commentator has released a teaser on Wednesday in which Schneider spoke candidly with King.

“I want to tell my daughter, Elle, that I love you and I wish I was the 20-something dad you needed, and clearly I wasn’t, and I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings” , he said.

He continued, “I love you completely. I love you completely. And I just want you to be well and happy with you and your beautiful baby, Lucky. I wish you the best. I feel terrible and I want you to know that I don’t take anything you say personally.

Schneider shares King with ex-model wife London kingto whom he was married from 1988 to 1990.

Elle, 35, is a singer with three studio albums and three tours to her name. She appeared on Bunnie XO’s Podcast ‘Dumb Blonde’where she criticized her father in an episode released on Monday. She called her relationship with him “toxic and very stupid.”

The “Ex’s and Oh’s” singer revealed that Schneider sent her to “fat camp” as a child.

“Then I got into trouble one year because I sprained my ankle, and I didn’t lose weight,” she said.

“If I ever spent a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set. I would just get lost in the shuffle,” Elle added. “If I ever messed up a shot, if I was ever talking, I would be in trouble.”

Elle said she and Schneider could go “four or five years” without speaking to each other. When she released her first album and the press started asking her about her father, tensions in their relationship flared again.

“Honestly, when I put out my record and people finally started asking about my dad, my dad called me and said, ‘Don’t talk about me in the press.’ Like, okay. Okay, great. But it’s also something like: get fd. I don’t care. Like, hey, listen, people have been asking me about your ass for years. And I’m like, you’re talking out of your ass, and you’re talking about drag and fg anti-gay rights.

Schneider has been criticized in the past for anti-trans and anti-vaccine comments. He was even booed off stage at a charity event in June for making transphobic jokes.

“I don’t agree with a lot of the things he says. And he’s just, I don’t know, you can want so much for someone to change,” Elle explained. “And ultimately you have no control over anyone else’s actions. You have no control over people’s feelings. The only thing you have control over is how you react and what you do with your feelings.”