Rob Schneider Asks Daughter for Forgiveness — Here’s Why
By Movieguide® Contributor
Rob Schneider is looking to make amends for the missteps he took in his younger years, and he recently apologized to his daughter, Elle, for not being the father she needed him to be.
“Well, I just want to tell my daughter, Elle, I love you and I wish I was the father in my 20s that you needed. Clearly I wasn’t,” Schneider said during an interview with Tucker Carlson, per Variety. “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,” he continued. “I wish you the best. I feel terrible. I just want you to know I don’t take anything you say personally.”
Schneider converted to Catholicism last year, and the newfound faith has given him a different perspective on his actions from the past. He has since been working to embrace the born-again life and live in the fullness of Christ.
“As I am a new convert to Catholicism, I offer my apology for my lack of Christ’s forgiveness to my fellow man, the actor wrote on Instagram last October. “It is forgiveness itself that is the gift that we give ourselves because it frees us all.”
“The Christ intends for all of us to be free,” Schneider continued. “For His gift of ultimate and unlimited forgiveness is indeed the gift for all humanity. May God bless you and your families now and forever.”
Though he grew up in a Christian home, Schneider strayed from his faith in his teens. Having now returned to Christ, he is forever grateful that the Lord brought him home, rather than allowing him to remain lost in the darkness.
“Jesus only lets you stray so much. I think at a certain point He grabbed me again and hugged me…” Schneider told CBN. “If you are thinking about looking for something in life, a foundation that… isn’t in sand where it could be blown away… you [can] have that foundation in something beautiful and something like Christian[ity].”
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“We have a religion that says love your enemy. Love thy neighbor as thyself. I think that [loving] others…what a beautiful way to go through life,” the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE writer said. “Christianity, it’s welcoming everyone.”
“There’s no exclusion. It’s not like, well, green-eyed people aren’t allowed,” he said.
Schneider explained that a while ago, another actor excluded people from his Broadway show, and it upset him. But he realized that his response needed to be forgiveness.
“If I am going to lead my life and be an example as Christ compels us to do, then I have to do it even if it hurts,” he realized. “Even if it stretches how I used to feel…and once you forgive, the beautiful thing about forgiveness is that it isn’t the person, it’s you. You end up feeling better.”
