Elle King opened up about her tumultuous relationship with her father, Rob Schneider, in her recent appearance on Bunnie XO's “Dumb Blonde” podcast.
In an edited trailer posted to TikTok for the upcoming episode, which drops Monday, the “Ex's & Oh's” singer took the opportunity to denounce Schneider's outspoken views on drag and the LGBTQ community.
“I don’t agree with a lot of the stuff he says,” King said of Schneider. “You’re talking out of your ass and talking about shit about drag, you know, gay rights. It’s like, ‘Go to hell.’”
In late July, Schneider took to X (formerly Twitter) to express his outrage over the Olympics opening ceremony, which featured a painting he interpreted as a reenactment of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” But instead of Jesus and his disciples sitting at a table, the painting featured drag queens and other colorfully dressed figures.
“I regret to say to all the world’s greatest athletes that I wish you all the best, but I cannot stand watching an Olympics that disrespects Christianity and openly celebrates Satan,” Schneider wrote. “I sincerely hope that these Olympics will have the same audience as C-SPAN.”
Schneider added in a later post: “Men exposing their genitals to children?! Drag queens?! I wasn't sure if I was watching the Olympics or a school board meeting.”
Elsewhere in the TikTok clip, King said she wasn't very close to her father growing up, and didn't connect with Schneider until she was “much older.” When she did get a chance to spend time with her father as a child, it was on a movie set, where she would often “get lost in the action.”
“If I messed up a shot, or if I was talking, I would be in big trouble,” King explained.
A major source of tension between King and Schneider was her appearance, with King's weight and tattoos being the biggest aggravators.
“I was like a really heavy kid. 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,” King explained. “I had already started tattooing and it was 108 degrees. So I had to wear sweaters because my dad was so anti-tattoo or anti-self-expression.”
A Schneider representative declined to comment.
King added that she has no plans to repair her relationship with her father, saying she “doesn't want to be associated” with Schneider in any way.
“It’s not nice at all,” King said. “You might want someone to change so much. You can’t control anyone else’s actions and you can’t control people’s feelings. All you can control is how you react and what you do with your feelings.”
