David Foster may have six children from different relationships, but “there has been absolutely no abandonment,” despite what one Instagram user thinks.
“I literally talked to my dad five minutes ago,” Foster’s second-oldest daughter, Amy Foster, 50, wrote on Instagram. Amy, whom the Grammy winner shares with Bonnie Jean “BJ” Cook, came to her father’s defense over the weekend after an Instagram user doubted her commitment to her children.
On Saturday, the 73-year-old musician shared a video of his 2-year-old son Rennie, whom he shares with wife Katharine McPhee, playing his drums to Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You.” In the comments, musicians including Charlie Puth, Questlove, Kristin Chenoweth, and Nicole Scherzinger expressed their amazement at Rennie’s talent.
“Oh wow,” Questlove responded.
“I. Can’t. Even. Oh my God!!!!!” Scherzinger wrote.
However, one Instagram user didn’t seem too impressed and turned their attention to another part of Foster’s life.
“He had (abandoned) daughters older than me,” the user said in response to the video.
In another comment, the user doubled down and wrote that Foster left his daughters “to be parents to his then-girlfriend.”[‘s child] And I never saw them again for years.”
Amy responded to the Instagram hater, writing that she had no hard feelings toward her father. Instead, she called out the reviewer for sharing negativity in response to this “video with an amazing two-year-old.”
And he added: “We are great. We love our dad. Our dad loves us and we love how our dad is with Rennie.”
In another comment, the same critical commentator cited a documentary in which two daughters, “who sounded very whiny for adults,” claimed they were abandoned. The Instagram user also clarified his comment, noting that they only “mentioned it because [people] They are making fun of age in the video. Nothing to do with the little one.”
Foster and McPhee welcomed Rennie in February 2021. He also has daughters Allison Jones, Sara Foster, Erin Foster, and Jordan Foster.
More than a year after welcoming Rennie, Foster revealed to People what it was like raising her first child — and doing so when she was 70 years old.
“At this point in my life, everything is different again,” he said. “Not better or worse, just different. I still work, I’m still out a lot, but maybe time is a little more valuable to me because I have more track behind me than I have in front of me now.”
He added: “I think I can offer Rennie one thing… I think I can offer him the wisdom of my 72 years on the planet. And maybe that’s not a bad trade-off. I hope so.”
