Rob Schneider is getting candid about his shortcomings as a father. The Saturday Night Live alum spoke out to address allegations his daughter Elle King made about her difficult childhood with Rob and their current lack of communication. "It's fun being a parent, isn't?" Rob began on an Aug.
14 preview of his interview on The Tucker Carlson Show podcast. "I want to just tell my daughter: Elle, I love you, and I wish I was the father of my 20s that that you needed, and clearly I wasn't." The 60-year-old asked Elle—who shares son Lucky , 2, with Daniel Tooker —to forgive his "shortcomings," adding, "I love you completely.
I love you entirely." "I just want you to be well and happy with you and your beautiful baby, Lucky," he continued. "I wish you the best.
I feel terrible, and I just want you to know that I don't take anything you say personally." Tucker was impressed by Rob's response, asking him how hard it was to not "make any excuses or blame her or attack back." "If you love somebody completely," Rob explained, "you just—I love her.
And all I want for her is to be happy and to heal from this." Elle has yet to respond to her father's comments, but the "Ex's and Oh's" singer was open earlier this week when it came to discussing their strained relationship , saying he sent her to a weight loss camp when she was young. "I was a really, really heavy child," Elle explained on the Dumb Blonde podcast Aug.
12. "My dad sent me to fat camp. It was rough and I got in trouble o.