Rob Schneider’s daughter calls him out for his anti-LGBTQ+ comments & for being a bad dad

Singer-songwriter and actress Elle King made headlines recently for taking her father, actor Rob Schneider, to task both for his parenting and his anti-LGBTQ+ comments.

On the August 12 episode of Bunnie XO’s podcast Dumb Blonde, King explained that she’s more or less estranged from Schneider. “I go four or five years without talking to my dad,” she said. She explained that as a child, she lived with her mother and stepfather in Ohio, and her contact with her dad tended to be limited to visiting him on movie sets during the summer, where she would “get lost in the shuffle.”

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The host of the event had to issue an apology.

She also claimed that Schneider sent her to “fat camp” as a kid, which she described as “very toxic and very silly.”

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King also called out Schneider for recent anti-LGBTQ+ comments. “You’re talking out of your ass and you’re talking s**t about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights and it’s like, ‘Get f**ked,’” she said. “I want to use this opportunity to say that I disagree. I do not agree with what he says.”

Schneider, best known for low-brow comedies like Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalow and The Hot Chick, reportedly joined the Republican party in 2013 and has since made headlines for his anti-vaccine stance and for his apparent slide into “anti-woke,” MAGA ideology. Last summer, his “woke-free” standup special Woke Up In America debuted on Fox News and promoted professional transphobe Matt Walsh’s sneeringly anti-trans documentary, What is a Woman, in an X post.

In September he posted a nasty anti-trans message to X misgendering influencer Dylan Mulvaney and accusing her of “gender appropriation.” As recently as this past June, Schneider was removed from the stage at an event for Canadian medical nonprofit Hospitals of Regina Foundation after the crowd booed his transphobic, misogynistic, and anti-vaccine “jokes.” The foundation later issued an apology, disavowing Schneider’s comments.

Schneider responded to his daughter’s criticisms on Wednesday during an appearance on the Tucker Carlson Network.

“I wanna just tell my daughter, Elle, I love you and I wish I was the father in my 20s that you needed,” he said, according to Deadline. “And clearly, I wasn’t, and I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings. I love you completely. I love you entirely and I just want you to be well and happy — you and your beautiful baby, Lucky. I wish you the best. I feel terrible and I just want you to know that I don’t take anything you say personally.”

Schneider, however, did not address King’s criticism of his anti-LGBTQ+ views, and judging from his choice of venue, he seems unlikely to reconsider his anti-vax, anti-woke, anti-trans positions.

King has not responded publicly to Schneider’s apology.

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