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Elle King revealed that her father Rob Schneider sent her to “fat camp” when she was a child.
In a TikTok teaser for an upcoming episode of Bunnie Xo Dumb blonde podcast, the 35 year old man Ex and Oh The singer spoke candidly about her upbringing with the SNL A student like her father, she recalled at one point that he had sent her to a “fat camp” when she was a child.
“I was a very, very heavy kid,” she explained. “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. It was very toxic and very stupid.”
Throughout the rest of the clip, the singer admitted that she hasn't spoken to my dad in “four or five years,” noting that Schneider's right-wing political views are a major factor in the distance between them.
“I don’t agree with a lot of the things he says,” she continued. “You’re talking nonsense about drag and gay rights and it’s like fuck off… He’s just talking nonsense and I want to take this opportunity to say that I don’t agree. I don’t agree with what he says.”
The king also reflected on his difficult relationship with him throughout his childhood.
“If I ever spent a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set. I would get lost in the crowd,” he recalls. “If I ever messed up a take, if I was ever talking, I would be in so much trouble.”
“My dad forgot all my birthdays,” King added. “I spent my 18th birthday at summer school and they brought me cupcakes. When I got home, my dad forgot my birthday.”
She was raised primarily by her mother, model London King, and stepfather, Justin Tesa, in Ohio, but in recent years had attempted to reconnect with her father as an adult.
She noted that she would “try all different angles” to repair their estranged relationship, saying: “I would try letters, I would try gentleness, I would try yelling. He would just say, ‘Well, look, you’re yelling. ’”
“You can want someone to change so badly,” she explained. “You can’t control other people’s actions or people’s feelings,” she also said. “The only thing you can control is how you react and what you do with your feelings. And sometimes I get angry, I lose control and I lose my temper.”
