Elle King recalls 'very toxic and very silly' dad Rob Schneider sending her to 'fat camp' as a kid

The "Ex's and Oh's" singer didn't hold back about her estranged father in a recent interview.

Elle King is spilling the tea on the strained relationship with her dad Rob Schneider, recalling times throughout her life when he sent her to "fat camp," how he never remembered her birthday, and how they go years without talking.

King sat down with Bunnie Xo for her Dumb Blonde podcast, and in a preview for the episode debuting Monday, King doesn't hold back on skewing her quasi-famous father.

Elle King, Rob Schneider
Elle King, Rob Schneider.

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"I was, like, a really, really heavy child. My dad sent me to fat camp," King says. "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.”

King explains that she goes "four or five years" without talking to Schneider but when she started making a name for herself in music, her father called her up to tell her "don't f---ing talk about me in the press." Advice she's clearly ignored.

The "Ex's and Oh's" singer also explains that Schneider never tried to help her with her career and she never wanted his help, noting that he doesn't have "a good reputation" in Hollywood.

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King goes on to recall that Schneider always forgot her birthday and that if she ever spent a summer with her dad, it would be on a movie set, where she would get "lost in the shuffle."

"If I ever messed up a shot, if I ever was talking, I would get in f---ing trouble,” she says.

Reps for Rob Schneider declined to comment.

The singer claims she's tried different ways to mend the relationship with her father, but to no avail. King also took the time to distance herself from her dad's controversial comments, adding, she disagrees "with a lot of the things that he says."

"You're talking out of your a-- and you're talking s--- about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights and it's like get f---ed," King says about Schneider. "He’s just talking out of his a-- and I want to use this opportunity to say that I disagree! I do not agree with what he says!"

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