Elle King isn’t sparing particulars with regard to the “toxic” relationship she says she’s had together with her well-known father, Rob Schneider, over time.
A teaser clip of King’s look on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast Monday reveals the nation singer recalling how Schneider stored his distance from her as a baby and was closely important of her look.
“I go for like four or five years without talking to my dad,” King mentioned. “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.”
Describing herself as “a really, really, heavy child,” she claimed that Schneider despatched her to a “fat camp,” and later urged her to cowl up as a result of he didn’t approve of her tattoos. She additionally mentioned that her dad “forgot about every single birthday,” together with when she turned 18.
“Very toxic and very silly,” she added.
A 3-time Emmy nominee, Schneider rose to prominence as each a solid member and author on “Saturday Night Live” from 1988 to 1994. He then parlayed his “SNL” success into function movies like “Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo” and “The Hot Chick.”
In current years, nonetheless, Schneider has repeatedly made headlines for his political beliefs. Although the actor and comic has described himself as a “classic liberal,” he has railed towards vaccine mandates and backed different causes usually aligned with conservative voters.
An outspoken supporter of impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Schneider was reportedly booed off stage at a Canadian charity occasion in June for making “transphobic, misogynistic and anti-vax jokes.” Final month, he blasted the 2024 Paris Olympics for together with what he and others perceived as a drag parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” in its opening ceremony.
“I am sorry to say to ALL the world’s GREATEST ATHLETES, I wish you ALL THE BEST, but I cannot watch an Olympics that disrespects Christianity and openly celebrates Satan,” he wrote on X, previously Twitter.
The occasion’s creative director later clarified that the phase was meant as a tribute to Dionysus, the Greek god of decadence and celebration, reasonably than “The Last Supper.”
In her “Dumb Blonde” interview, King distanced herself from her dad’s political beliefs, noting: “I want to use this opportunity to say: ‘I disagree. I do not agree with what he says.’”
In an electronic mail to HuffPost, a consultant for Schneider declined remark.
King catapulted onto the Nashville music scene together with her 2015 debut album, “Love Stuff,” which bore the smash single, “Ex’s & Oh’s.” Since then, she’s launched two extra albums, racked up 4 Grammy nominations, and carried out as a gap act for Ed Sheeran and Chris Stapleton, amongst others.
Watch Elle King discuss Rob Schneider on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast under.
