If you don't keep up with celebrities and their children, you might have missed that comedian, and Adam Sandler's right-hand man, Rob Schneider, is one-hit-wonder Elle King's dad.
You can see it in their eyes.
Schneider had King with model London King in 1989, the year after he graduated from writer to full-time cast member on SNL. They weren't close during her childhood, but they didn't exactly have a feud, like Schneider's feud with David Spade, either.
In 2011, Schneider started another family when he married Patricia Azarcoya, and soon after, they had their two children, Miranda and Madeline. But King was struggling with her own life, as her father was re-starting his own. Now they're on better terms, but it took a while for them to reestablish their relationship.
Here's how they got reacquainted with one another.
Things Went Down Hill After Her Divorce
When King first broke out into the scene, the media quickly noticed that she was Schneider's daughter, and their first question was: why wasn't she using the Schneider name?
"I wanted to be myself," she explained to ABC News. "I am my own person."
"It’s not that I wanted to be a famous person. I wanted to be a performer," she said. "But I worked really hard and I did everything myself and I took a name that ... is my mother’s name ... I took that name because I wanted to be myself."
"And, yeah, people know who my dad is," she added. "But I think that my voice and my music speaks for itself: that I am my own person."
She soon found out how much her voice and music spoke for themselves because her first album, especially her hit "Ex's and Oh's," was an immediate success. But as she was finding her success, she got knocked down a couple of pegs simultaneously.
In 2016, King married Andrew Ferguson in a secret ceremony that not even her parents knew about. No one found out about the marriage until they divorced a year later after King filed a domestic abuse lawsuit against Ferguson, which was later dropped.
King announced the marriage and the split on her Instagram. In her post, she explained that she'd been in a rough place before they got married, which was just three weeks after they'd met at a bar. She also explained that she turned to substance abuse to handle her PTSD following the domestic abuse.
"I was partying so hard to numb emotions that I couldn't handle at the time. I realized it was just prolonging the inevitable of dealing with them. And what you have to do, unfortunately, is just feel them and that sucks," she told People. "I thought that by doing drugs it would buy me time to feeling better. And when that wasn't working, I just realized I was in this other cycle and that I was creating it myself. And I realized I needed to cut all the darkness out of my life."
She later got help and said it saved her life. "I think that reaching out [for help] saved my life. I don't wanna think of any other outcome that could have happened," she said. "I feel like the more I talk about it, maybe it could reach somebody — reach somebody that feels alone."
Getting help also opened the door to a relationship with her dad again. After all she went through, "now the relationship I have with my father is what I always wanted," she continued.
"My whole childhood, my dad was a workaholic," she explained their relationship when she was a kid. Despite not seeing her father much when she was a child, having grown up in Ohio with her mom and her step-father Justin Tesa, King did have a small part in her father's film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo in 1999.
Their Relationship's Never Been Better
King revealed one of the reasons she wanted to reconnect with her father was her two half-sisters.
"We both have grown up a lot. And you realize what’s important," she said. "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— kind of goes away. I love him."
Now their relationship couldn't be any better. She said he's her No. 1 fan, and, at the time, he couldn't wait for her second album, Shake the Spirit.
"Honestly, he’s probably my biggest supporter," King gushed. "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."
Now, being in the spotlight for some time now, King understands why her father was a "workaholic," and she respects that about him.
"This business is hard. It’s hard to find any balance in it. My dad just put everything into him — his success and trying to be successful," she said. "And I’m a lot like that. So my work, work has always come first. But my family life is where I want it to be."
King and Schneider will probably only get closer, now that the comedian is about to become a grandfather. You heard us right. King and her fiancé Dan Tooker are pregnant with their first child. So King's family is certainly growing. Do you think Schneider will put on coconut boobs and his mop wig from 50 Firsts Dates to mess around with his grandchild? We hope so.