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

Elle King is opening up about her strained relationship with her father Rob Schneider. 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.

“I disagree with a lot of the things that he says,” King said. “You’re talking out of your ass and you’re talking shit about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights. And it’s like, get fucked.” (She was referring to the comedian’s posts about the Olympics opening ceremony, which he claimed featured “guys with their genitalia hangout out.”)

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.

“You can want someone to change so much. You can’t control anyone else’s actions you can’t control people’s feelings,” she said. “All you can control is how you react and what you do with your feelings. And sometimes I fucking boil up and I boil over and I fucking bust my lid.”

In the interview, King shared that she didn’t speak to her father until she was “much, much older” and that she would get “lost in the shuffle” when the two would connect, and that Schneider would forget about “every single birthday.”

She also claimed that the comedian sent her to “fat camp” because she was a “really heavy child.” “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,” she said. 

Although he has not addressed King’s comments directly, he posted a Bible verse on X and shared that he would be going on Tucker Carlson’s podcast this week. “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world,” he quoted the verse, signing off, “With Love, Rob.”