Rob Schneider has a message for his estranged daughter Elle King days after the “Ex’s & Oh’s” singer detailed her strained relationship with the comedian. “I wanted to tell my daughter Elle, ‘I love you and I wish I was the father in my 20s that you needed,’” Schneider said in a recent interview. “Clearly I wasn’t and I hope you can forgive my shortcomings.

I love you completely.” “The Hot Chick” and former “Saturday Night Live” actor broke his silence on his daughter’s revelations in an interview with former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson , published Wednesday. Earlier this week, King said in a Monday episode of Bunnie XO’s “Dumb Blonde” podcast that she decided early in her singing career she did not “want to be associated” with her father and said that he was “very toxic” during her childhood.

The 35-year-old singer , whom Schneider shares with ex-wife and actor-model London King, said she was primarily raised by her mother and her stepfather. But when she did spend time with Schneider, King said it was far from fun. “If I would ever spend a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set.

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I’d just get lost in the shuffle,” King said. The musician said she would be scolded and sidelined on set. She added that her father had a habit of forgetting her birthday and that, when she was a preteen, he “sent me to fat camp.

” “I got in trouble one year because I sprained my ankle and didn’t lose any weight — very .