Elle King Isn't Buying Apology from Her Dad, Comedian Rob Schneider, for Anti-Queer Rhetoric

Elle King wasn't out to hurt the feelings of her dad, Rob Schneider, when she called out his homophobic and transphobic remarks – but she's also not buying the apology he offered while talking with right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, Variety reported.

Speaking with People Magazine in advance of her new single, "High Road," the "Ex's and Oh's" singer explained that her recent comments about the rocky relations between herself and her father – and her denunciation of Schneider's anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric – weren't intended to hurt him.

"I never in a million years thought that that was going to go viral," the four-time Grammy nominee said of the comments she made in August on Bunnie Xo's "Dumb Blonde" podcast.

As previously reported, King slammed Schneider for "talking out of your ass and you're talking shit about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights."

Schneider's comedy sets reportedly including anti-vaccine rhetoric as well as transphobic and misogynistic material.

Talking with former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson, Schneider addressed King's comments in the form of an apology, saying, "I just want to tell my daughter, Elle, I love you and I wish I was the father in my 20s that you needed. Clearly I wasn't."

"I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings," Schneider went on to add. "I love you completely, and I love you entirely," Schneider said. "I just want you to be well and happy with you and your beautiful baby, Lucky. I wish you the best. I feel terrible. I just want you to know I don't take anything you say personally."

But it might take more than conciliatory words in an interview with Tucker Carlson to mend the rift between father and daughter. King recalled on the podcast how Schneider disapproved of her body and pressured her to lose weight when she was young.

"I was like a really, really heavy child," King recounted, adding that Schneider "sent me to fat camp" before recalling that she "got in trouble one year because I sprained my ankle and didn't lose any weight."

The famously inked singer noted that "I had already started getting tattooed" at an early age, "and it was like 108 degrees. So I had to wear sweaters because my dad was very anti-tattoos or any form of self-expression."

In her comments to People Magazine, King responded to Schneider's apologetic comments by saying that she "was just speaking about my childhood and about my truth" on the podcast appearance, and "not trying to hurt him."

But at the same time, she pushed back on critiques leveled at her for speaking about those truths in public.

"A lot of people said, 'How could she say that about her family?' and 'Everything needs to be behind closed doors,'" King said. "No, it doesn't."

Added King: "Sometimes you have to just say things and get them off your chest so that you don't have to carry it for the rest of your life. But ultimately, I think an apology on Tucker Carlson is like a double negative, right? Means nothing."

However, a silver lining remains, King told People. "What I will say is the best thing that came from that is that my incredible LGBTQ+ community knows that they have an ally in me," the singer stated. "And if that's the biggest thing to come out of that platform, then I would've done it 10 more fucking times because I am an ally, they have one in me, and I'm grateful."