Elle King admitted recently she didn’t realize her comments about her father would make such a stink.
“I was just speaking about my childhood and about my truth,” she told PEOPLE about her comments about her father and actor Rob Schneider. “I was not trying to hurt him. A lot of people said, ‘How could she say that about her family?’ and ‘Everything needs to be behind closed doors.’ No, it doesn’t. Sometimes you have to just say things and get them off your chest so that you don’t have to carry it for the rest of your life.”
King went after her celebrity father during an interview with Bunnie Xo on her podcast.
The country music star put Schneider on blast for his anti-LGBTQ stance.
“You are talking out of your (expletive) and you’re talking (expletive) about drag and you know, anti-gay rights,” King said, per Variety. “And it’s like, get (expletive).”
King said her relationship with her father has never been good, dating back to when she was a kid. She shared Schneider sent her to “fat camp” as a child.
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