After the performance and very public backlash, King stepped away and cancelled her shows to get help, revealing this week that she entered a “therapeutic program” for treatment:
“After everything that happened in January, I went to a different type of therapeutic program because I was very sad, and nobody really knows what I was going through behind closed doors.”
She didn’t really say what she’s been going through, but during a recent appearance on the Dumb Blonde podcast with Bunnie XO, King opened up on her past – including her strained relationship with her father, actor Rob Schneider.
Schneider is, of course, best known for his time as a cast member on SNL, and his roles in movies like Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, The Waterboy, Grown Ups, and…well, pretty much every Adam Sandler movie.
His daughter not only appeared in some movies with her dad, including Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, but she even made a special appearance and sang with Schneider during his Netflix stand-up special:
But according to King, the two actually don’t speak very often:
“I go for like 4 or 5 years without talking to my dad. I put out my record and people finally started asking about my dad, and my dad called me and was like, ‘Don’t f*cking talk about me in the press.’ So it’s like, ‘Get f*cked.'”
And it doesn’t sound like they’ve ever had a particularly great father-daughter relationship:
“If I would ever spend a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set. I would just get lost in the shuffle. If I ever messed up a shot, if I ever was talking, like, I would get in f*cking TROUBLE.”
Battles over her weight also seemed to have caused problems between the two:
“I was a really, really heavy child. My dad sent me to fat camp. And then I got in trouble one year because I sprained my ankle and I didn’t lose any weight. Very toxic and very silly.”
And differences in their personal views (Rob has become an outspoken conservative in recent years) further strained the already-broken relationship:
“I had already started getting tattooed, and it was like 108 degrees, so I was having to wear sweaters because my dad was very anti-tattoos, or like any form of self-expression that differed from what he wanted…
I disagree with a lot of the things that he says…
You’re talkin’ out your ass, and you’re talkin’ sh*t about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights, and it’s like, get f*cked…
He’s just talking out of his ass, and I want to use this opportunity to say, I disagree. I do not agree with what he says.”
Elle also says that her father never had a great reputation, and that he was just “not nice.” In fact, she says that he never even remembered her birthday:
“My dad forgot about every single birthday. I spent my 18th birthday in a summer school…and they brought me cupcakes, and I came home and my dad forgot my birthday.”
It definitely sounds like she’s been through a lot with her famous father, and it’s sad to hear that they’ve never been able to have a real relationship.
If you want to hear more from Elle, the full episode comes out tomorrow:
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