Rob Schneider responds to Elle King’s ‘toxic’ comments

Rob Schneider is responding to unsavory comments that his daughter Elle King recently made about him.

In a clip from a podcast hosted by right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, the former Saturday Night Live star addressed his daughter with an apology and positive affirmations. “It’s fun being a parent, isn’t it?” Schneider joked after Carlson introduced the subject. “I want to tell my daughter, ‘Elle, I love you, and I wish I was the father in my 20s that you needed, and clearly I wasn’t. I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings.’”

Reps for King did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly’s request for comment.

King recently made headlines for sharing some candid memories about growing up with her dad. “My dad sent me to fat camp,” she said on Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast. “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.”

The “Ex’s and Oh’s” singer also noted that she disagrees with a significant amount of her father’s social and political convictions, many of which skew very conservative. “You’re talking out of your ass and you’re talking s— about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights and it’s like get f—ed,” she said. “He’s just talking out of his ass, and I want to use this opportunity to say that I disagree! I do not agree with what he says!”

King had also said that she can go “four or five years” without talking to Schneider, and that he has previously told her, “don’t f—ing talk about me in the press.”

On Carlson’s podcast, Schneider sent further positivity toward his daughter. “I love you completely, I love you entirely, and I just want you to be well and happy with you and your beautiful baby, Lucky,” he said. “I wish you the best. I feel terrible, and I just want you to know that I don’t take anything you say personally.”

Carlson asked the comedian and anti-vax advocate why he didn’t make the exchange into a battle. “So when your daughter attacks you in public, how hard is it not to — you didn’t make any excuses or blame her or attack back,” the host said. “How hard is that?”

Schneider said that he’s a lover, not a fighter. “If you love somebody completely, you just — I love her and all I want for her is to be happy and to heal from this.”

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Watch the full clip of Schneider and Carlson discussing King above.