Elle King has reconnected with her father Rob Schneider, after a complicated past.
The 29-year-old singer had a strained relationship with her 54-year-old comedian father in the past after he spent much of her childhood working, but following a difficult year for the singer – in which she ended her "destructive" marriage and struggled with substance abuse, depression and PTSD – she has now reconnected with her dad.
She said: "My whole childhood, my dad was a workaholic. [but] now the relationship I have with my father is what I always wanted."
Elle – whose mother is model London King – admits both she and her father have "grown up a lot" since they last spoke, and since he welcomed two new daughters, Miranda, five, and Madeline, two, the ‘Exes and Ohs’ hitmaker has said she’s determined to be a good big sister.
She added: "We both have grown up a lot. And you realise what’s important. Him having children – I wanted my sisters to have good memories of me from their childhood when they grew. Family really is so important. So through that, me just kind of showing up and trying to be good for them, really made it easy because there were no bad motives. When it’s about the kids, the bulls**t kind of goes away. I love him."
And now, the blonde beauty credits Rob with being her "biggest supporter".
Speaking to People magazine, she said: "Honestly, he’s probably my biggest supporter. Like, every other day I’ll get texts in all caps of like, ‘Your record’s gonna change the world! I can’t wait for your fans to hear what you’ve made! I love you! I’m so proud of you!’ And that’s a beautiful, wonderful thing."
Recently, Elle opened up about her marriage to Andrew Ferguson – who she married in February 2016 after a whirlwind romance before separating in May 2017 – as she said the relationship put her in the "lowest point of her life".
She said: "I was in a destructive marriage; I was at the lowest point in my life. … I was not well. I couldn’t look people in the eyes. I literally couldn’t leave my house for weeks at a time.
"I was partying so hard to numb emotions that I couldn’t handle at the time. I realised it was just prolonging the inevitable of dealing with them.
"And what you have to do, unfortunately, is just feel them, and that sucks, I thought that by doing drugs it would buy me time to feeling better.
"And when that wasn’t working, I just realised I was in this other cycle, and that I was creating it myself. And I realised I needed to cut all the darkness out of my life."
Elle King reconnects with her father Rob Schneider
