Rob Schneider apologized to his daughter Elle King following her criticism of him, telling Tucker Carlson he hopes she is going to forgive him.
King opened up about her relationship along with her father earlier this week, when she stated on Bunnie XO’s podcast Dumb Blonde that Schneider wasn’t concerned in her life rising up.
“Right now, we’re not flowing,” she stated and added that she is going to go years with out seeing him. “I disagree with a lot of the things that he says. And he is just, I don’t know, you can want someone to change so much. And, ultimately, you can’t control anyone else’s actions. You can’t control people’s feelings. All you can control is how you react and what you do with your feelings.”
Schneider, a comic and former Saturday Evening Reside actor, has repeatedly been criticized for his jokes about ladies and transgender individuals, in addition to his stance towards vaccinations. Final month, he posted on social media that he deliberate to boycott the Paris Olympics for the opening ceremony’s drag queen efficiency that, in accordance to him, featured an outline of Devil.
Although King stated her father wasn’t a part of a lot of her childhood, she shared that he despatched her to “fat camp” when she was 11 and 12, the place she was fed restricted meals and compelled to work out all day.
“It’s like very toxic and very silly,” the singer stated of her relationship to Schneider.
“It’s fun being a parent isn’t it?” Schneider quipped to Carlson throughout an look on the conservative pundit’s present on Thursday.
“I just want to tell my daughter: I love you, and I wish I was the father in my 20s that you needed. I clearly wasn’t, and I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings.”
Schneider shares King along with his ex-wife London King, with whom he was married for 2 years within the Nineteen Eighties. The couple divorced a few 12 months after their daughter’s delivery. Schneider now shares two extra children, born in 2012 and 2016, along with his spouse, Patricia Azarcoya.
“I love you completely, I love you entirely, and I just want you to be well and happy with your beautiful baby Lucky,” he continued in his handle to Elle. Within the video launch of the podcast, Schneider addressed the digital camera straight as he spoke. “I wish you the best. I feel terrible, and I just want you to know that I don’t take anything you say personally. I love you, and I feel that God has gifted this moment and gifted me to be able to tell you, I love you and I accept you and I apologize for any of my shortcomings.”
He continued, “My heart is your home, and a home is a place [that] when you go there, they have to let you in. I love you, and I’m sorry that you’re having to deal with this, but this is a great opportunity because we could talk about families — I mean, show me a perfect family out there and I’ll be shocked.”
Schneider went on to converse at size concerning the struggles posed by dependancy and monetary stress amongst households, in addition to his now-devout Catholicism.
“All I want for her is to be happy and to heal from this,” he continued. “I apologize completely for and accept responsibility for not being the parent that I am now with my new kids. She didn’t get that, and I missed a lot.”