Elle King 'never meant to hurt' father Rob Schneider for revealing he sent her to 'fat camp' Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.Com Published: 20:06 EDT, 19 September 2024 | Updated: 20:21 EDT, 19 September 2024 e-mail View comments Elle King said she 'never meant to hurt' her estranged father Rob Schneider a month after revealing how he forgot birthdays and sent her to a fat camp twice as a child.

'I never in a million years thought that that was going to go viral,' the 35-year-old country crooner told People on Thursday. 'I was just speaking about my childhood and about my truth. I was not trying to hurt him.

' Elle (born Tanner Elle Schneider) recalled spending summers with the 60-year-old comedian after his two-year marriage to her mother London King ended in 1990, but he was always busy on movie sets. 'I was a really, really heavy child. It's so awful.

But like [fat camps were] where he sent me to,' King confessed on the Dumb Blonde podcast on August 12. Elle King said she 'never meant to hurt' her estranged father Rob Schneider a month after revealing how he forgot birthdays and sent her to a fat camp twice as a child (pictured in 2023) 'I went two summers in a row. I was 11 and 12.

' In June, Rob - who converted to Catholicism last year - was booed off stage for making transphobic, sexist, and anti-vaxx comments during his comedy set at a fundraiser for The Hospitals of Regina Foundation. 'I don't want to be associated with h.