Elle King says dad Rob Schneider sent her to 'fat camp,' forgot birthday

Elle King is getting honest about her relationship with her dad.

The "Ex's & Oh's" singer, 35, spoke about her father, comedian Rob Schneider, 60, in an upcoming episode of the "Dumb Blonde" podcast, according to a preview clip shared on TikTok by host Bunnie XO.

The tightly edited video highlighted King's comments about Schneider from the interview, starting with the Grammy nominee sharing, "I go for like four or five years without talking to my dad."

In the TikTok clip, King alleges Schneider "forgot about every single birthday" and recalled celebrating her 18th birthday in summer school. "They brought me cupcakes, and I came home and my dad forgot my birthday," she says.

The singer, who appeared in her dad's 1999 movie "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," says that if she would ever spend a summer with him, "it would be on a movie set."

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She goes on to say that she was a "really, really heavy child" and that her dad sent her "to fat camp," where she got in "trouble" after spraining her ankle and not losing weight. King additionally claims Schneider once called her to demand that she stop talking about him to the media.

King also tells Bunnie XO in the clip that she disagrees "with a lot of the things that he says," apparently referring to Schneider. She criticized comments he has made about drag and LGBTQ+ rights after the comedian recently complained on social media about the presence of drag queens at the Olympics.

USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Schneider for comment.

Bunnie XO captioned the excerpt "Elle King talks about her tough relationship with her dad Rob Schneider." At the start of the preview, the host tells King that Schneider was one of her "childhood crushes" but later says, based on their conversation, "You're killing my fantasy of Rob."

The full podcast interview will be released on Monday.

Schneider and his ex-wife London King welcomed Elle King in 1989 before divorcing in 1990. The "Grown Ups" star also has two children with his current wife, Patricia Schneider.

In an interview with People published in 2023, King said that she was raised by her mom and stepdad Justin, and her father "didn't visit very often." When she released her debut "Elle King EP" in 2012, Schneider "wasn't even in my life," she said. But King told People at the time that she and her dad had since reconnected.

"My father and I have a beautiful and really wonderful, great loving relationship with awesome boundaries," she said. "I love my dad so much."

Earlier this year, King faced backlash after delivering a drunken performance during a Dolly Parton tribute concert at the Grand Ole Opry. She recently shared on the "Off the Vine" podcast that she went to a "therapeutic program" after the incident and that "nobody really knows what I was going through behind closed doors."

"Ultimately, I couldn't go on living my life or even staying in the situation that I had been going through," she said. "I couldn't continue to be existing in that high level of pain."

Contributing: Audrey Gibbs

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