Elle King 'never meant to hurt' father Rob Schneider for revealing he sent her to 'fat camp'

Elle King said she 'never meant to hurt' her estranged father Rob Schneider a month after revealing how he forgot birthdays and sent her to a fat camp twice as a child.

'I never in a million years thought that that was going to go viral,' the 35-year-old country crooner told People on Thursday.

'I was just speaking about my childhood and about my truth. I was not trying to hurt him.'

Elle (born Tanner Elle Schneider) recalled spending summers with the 60-year-old comedian after his two-year marriage to her mother London King ended in 1990, but he was always busy on movie sets.

'I was a really, really heavy child. It's so awful. But like [fat camps were] where he sent me to,' King confessed on the Dumb Blonde podcast on August 12.

'I went two summers in a row. I was 11 and 12.'

In June, Rob - who converted to Catholicism last year - was booed off stage for making transphobic, sexist, and anti-vaxx comments during his comedy set at a fundraiser for The Hospitals of Regina Foundation.

'I don't want to be associated with him. He's just not nice,' the four-time Grammy nominee responded.

'I do not agree with what he says. I believe in all forms of love. And I just believe in anyone finding their happiness and their joy in whatever way, whatever capacity that is. There are no politics when it comes to love.'

Elle went on to note how she never benefitted off any nepo-baby association to Schneider as he 'didn't have a very good reputation.'

The three-time Emmy nominee responded to King's public criticism during his August 15th appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show where he mentioned her three-year-old son Lucky Levi Tooker with tattoo artist Dan Tooker.

'I just want to tell my daughter, Elle, I love you and I wish I was the father in my 20s that you needed,' Rob apologized.

'Clearly I wasn't. I hope you can forgive me for my shortcomings. I love you completely and I love you entirely. 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.'

Schneider is 24 years older than his third wife Patricia Maya Schneider, but they've been married for 13 years now.

The Dead Wrong actor is making up for his 'shortcomings' as a young parent with their 11-year-old daughter Miranda Scarlett Schneider and eight-year-old daughter Madeline Robbie Schneider.

'A lot of people said, "How could she say that about her family? Everything needs to be behind closed doors,"' the Baby Daddy's Weekend singer said Thursday.

'No, it doesn't. 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.'

Elle continued: '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. And if that's the biggest thing to come out of that platform, then I would've done it 10 more f***ing times because I am an ally, they have one in me, and I'm grateful.'

This Friday, King - who gets 4.4M monthly listeners on Spotify - drops her new single High Road and brings her 29-date Baby Daddy's Weekend Tour to 7 Clans First Council Casino & Hotel in Newkirk, OK.

Meanwhile, Rob - who's gone from Democrat to Republican to Independent - is next scheduled to bring his Rescue Husband stand-up comedy tour to TempleLive in Fort Smith, AR this Friday.

Schneider's book You Can Do It: Speak Your Mind, America hits shelves next Tuesday.