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Elle King Says She Goes Years Without Talking to ‘Toxic’ Dad Rob Schneider

Elle King said she prefers not to be associated with her dad Rob Schneider, and claims he sent her to fat camp as a child.

“I disagree with a lot of the things that he says,” King said, referring to Schneider's previous homophobic comments; the pair shared a stage together in Nashville on New Year's Eve In a new interview with Bunnie XO on her Dumb Blonde podcast, the “ Ex’s and Oh’s ” singer said she’s gone “four or five years without talking to my dad,” as she called him out over childhood trauma and his anti-LGBTQ stances. King — who shared a stage with Schneider during Nashville’s New Year’s Eve televised party in December — said she didn’t “want to be associated” with the comedian because he’s “just not nice,” and added that she had no plans of mending her relationship with her father.

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