The country star's famous father responds to her heartbreaking allegations

Days after country music star Elle King sharply criticized her famous father, actor and comedian Rob Schneider, for the way he raised her, he has responded.

During an appearance on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast with Bunnie Xo, the 35-year-old singer said she “wouldn’t speak to her father for four or five years.”

“If I ever spent a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set,” she said. “I would just get lost in all the hustle and bustle.”

Schneider is an outspoken right-wing and anti-LGBTQ character on X, and King told Bunnie that she disagreed with her father's stance on these issues. depending on the variety.

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“You're talking from your (expletive) and you're talking (expletive) about drag and, you know, gay rights,” she said. “And it's like, get (expletive).”

She also revealed other apparently traumatic interactions with Schneider.

“I was like a really, really heavy kid,” she said. “My dad sent me to fat camp … and then I got in trouble for a year because I sprained my ankle and still didn't lose weight.”

She said Schneider would also force her to wear sweaters to hide her tattoos.

“He's just not nice,” she said. “You can want someone to change as much as you want. You can't control other people's actions or other people's feelings. You can only control how you react and what you do with your feelings.”

Schneider sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday and responded to King's words.

“I just want to say to my daughter Elle: I love you and I wish I had been the father you needed in my twenties, but I clearly wasn't,” he said. “And I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings. I love you with all my heart. I love you with all my heart.”

Schneider said he just wants King to be “well and happy with you and your beautiful baby.”

“I wish you all the best,” he said. “I feel terrible and I just want you to know that I don't take anything you say personally.”

King began the year with a controversial performance at the Grand Ole Opry.

She appeared onstage at the Opry celebrating Dolly Parton's birthday and told fans she was “drunk,” then proceeded to distort some of her songs.

One of those songs was Parton’s “Marry Me,” and fans apparently had good reasons to be unhappy.

During the performance, she reportedly admitted that she did not know the lyrics and told her fans, “Don't tell Dolly, it's her birthday.”

She reportedly said afterwards: “I'm not even going to (expletive) lie… you all bought tickets for this (expletive), you're not getting your money back.”

The Opry apologized and King canceled some shows.

She has returned to her performing career and recently spoke about the incident during an appearance on Chelsea Handler's podcast.

“So I said a big no, no,” she said Handler. “Not only was I cursing onstage and yelling at the Grand Ole Opry, but it was Dolly Parton's birthday and the Opry was doing a tribute to Dolly Parton,” she said. “I didn't talk about it because, first of all, I needed to relax. It was a big deal.”

“I was going through a very difficult and traumatic time in my life at the time and that day was a really hard day for me to process what I had been through and am still going through. I suffer from severe post-traumatic stress disorder,” she added.

King said she was not originally scheduled to perform, but another singer dropped out and she was asked to step in.

“I take one shot too many and I'm just not there, in my body,” she said. “I'm not there. I don't remember it. I know now what I said. I said, 'I'm Elle King and I'm (expletive) drunk.' Then the curtain fell on me. I only have brief images of it. I was completely, 100 percent detached. I just cut to the dressing room, I was on the floor sobbing, 'What have I done?' And then the next day, everything was the same.

“Everywhere.”

King said she was “ashamed” and wrote Parton a letter of apology and then called her.

She said Parton was “literally proof that angels exist.”

“She just said very kind words to me and said, 'Well, Dolly isn't mad at you, why should the world be?'” she said.

“These are the things I will never forget,” she added. “Because I wanted to (expletive) die.”