Elle King details 'toxic' relationship with dad Rob Schneider: 'He's just not nice'

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Elle King shared insight into her at-times difficult childhood as the daughter of Hollywood star Rob Schneider, telling an interviewer her father is "just not nice."

The country musician revealed that she would go "four or five years without talking to" her father while chatting with Jelly Roll's wife, BunnieXO, on her "Dumb Blonde" podcast.

"Your dad is one of my childhood crushes," Bunnie told King, 35, of the "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" actor.

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Elle King shared details about growing up as the daughter of actor Rob Schneider. (Getty Images)

King described her relationship with her father as having a unique ebb and flow: "I put out my record and people finally started asking about my dad," she said. "My dad called me, and was like, ‘Don’t f---ing talk about me in the press.'"

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She remembered, "If I would ever spend a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set. I would just get lost in the shuffle. If I ever messed up a shot, if I ever was talking, like, I would get in f---ing trouble."

Bunnie asked, "Did you ever feel like you guys could connect?" King said, "Not till I was much, much older."

The "Ex's & Oh's" singer recalled, "I was, like, a really, really heavy child. 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."

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She added, "Very toxic and very silly."

Elle is the daughter of Rob Schneider and model London King. (Getty Images)

In another excerpt, King remembered, "I had already started getting tattooed, and it was like 108 degrees, so I was having to wear sweaters because my dad was very anti-tattoos or like any form of self-expression that differed from what he wanted.

"I was like a really, really heavy child. 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."

— Elle King

"I disagree with a lot of the things that he says. You're talking out your a--, and you're talking sh-- about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights, and it's like … get f---ed. I want to use this opportunity to say I disagree. I do not agree with what he says."

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Bunnie chimed in to ask, "Did your dad ever try to help you?" to which Elle said, "No, he never helped me. I never wanted his help."

"He also didn't have a very good reputation. I don't want to be associated with him. He's just not nice. You can want someone to change so much; you can't control anyone else's actions. You can't control people's feelings. All you can control is how you react and what you do with your feelings, and sometimes I f---ing boil up, and I boil over and I f---ing bust my lid.

King has been nominated for multiple Grammy awards and earned an Academy of Country Music Award for "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" in 2020. (Getty Images)

"You try every different angle. I would try letters. I would try soft. I would try yelling … my dad forgot about every single birthday. I spent my 18th birthday in a summer school, and they brought me cupcakes, and I came home and my dad forgot my birthday."

"You're killing my fantasy of Rob here," Bunnie let the country singer know, to which she said, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

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"It's done. It's over with. It's done. I'm Team Elle," Bunnie said.

Representatives for Schneider are not commenting on King's claims at this time.