Well isn't this convenient. Kelly Rowland's birth father--who left her at a young age--is coming out of the woodwork and making a public plea for her forgiveness. And he's doing so through the press, of course.
What Kelly's dad, Christopher Lovett, just told the tabloids when you read on....
"Kelly, I love you with all my heart," the Sunday Mirror quotes him as saying. "Please forgive me and let me be your dad again."
Here we go. After almost 2 decades in the public eye, and after spending part of her childhood growing up in her former group mate Beyonce's home, Kelly Rowland's birth father, who she says she remembers as an aggressive drunk, is now reaching out.
Kelly's been open about her relationship with her father, or lack thereof, which caused her and her mother to deal with seriously hard times. And led to Kelly moving in with Beyonce and the Knowles family while they began their girl group.
Reportedly, Kelly's father, Christopher, is 65 now and reveals he lost his job and fell into a drunken depression during her youth. When the family was evicted from their home when Kelly was 7, Christopher parted ways with Kelly and her mother, Doris.
He now supposedly tells the Sunday Mirror:
"The failure to provide for my family fuelled an anger that I will be ashamed of until my dying day... No parent should scream and shout in front of their child, and I am sorry to say there were too many times to mention that Kelly heard me screaming abuse at her mother. Sometimes she would run to her bedroom screaming, others she would cling to my trouser leg begging me to stop.
"I really hoped I would get to make it up to her. Sadly I am still waiting for that day. But I can't give up hope. That's why there is a room in my house which I have decorated especially for Kelly, just in case she comes through the front door."
He went on to describe what really happened--according to him--with him and Kelly's mother:
“I loved her from the moment she took her first breath. I remember as clear as day Kelly and I singing together, from the moment she could talk. Our favourite songs were by Stevie Wonder. I would put one headphone in my ear and the other in hers and we would sing and sing, so happy to be together.
“But then I lost my job at a transportation company, sank into a depression about money and began drinking more and more. The failure to provide for my family fuelled an anger that I will be ashamed of until my dying day.
“It wasn’t physical between me and Kelly’s mum, but there were many days and nights when Kelly would be bawling her eyes out, clutching my leg begging me, ‘Please daddy stop shouting at mummy’. That image of her howling, begging me to stop will haunt me forever.
He also revealed his attempts of trying to find Kelly when she was younger, but he claims he was constantly shut out by Kelly's aunts and family:
“When Doris challenged me, I would just lose it. No parent should scream and shout in front of their child, and I am sorry to say there were too many times to mention that Kelly heard me screaming abuse at her mother. Sometimes she would run to her bedroom screaming, others she would cling to my trouser leg begging me to stop. When the electricity was cut off and we received an eviction letter we agreed for Doris to take Kelly to her aunt’s house while I sorted things out.
“Little did I know the day they left would be the last time I would see my wife and daughter ever again.
“Every time I phoned her aunt’s house she told me Kelly and her mum were out. I had no job, no money, no car and just no way of getting the 20 miles to where they were staying.
“When six months had passed I begged a friend for a ride to her aunt’s house and she told me they had moved to Texas. I begged her to give me an address, but she flat-out refused.” For the next 23 years, Christopher did everything he could to find Kelly, who will appear on the X Factor in August. He says: “I knew I had to stop drinking, get a job or I would never see my daughter again.
“And I did.
“But by then it was too late and they were gone, the two people I loved with all my heart and that tore me up and still does today.” At one point he drove 800 miles to Texas and walked from hotel to hotel in a failed attempt to find Kelly and her mother.
He also clams to have bought a ticket to a Destiny's Child concert and drove 8 hours to see her in North Carolina once he "heard she was singing":
“I sat for the whole concert in one of the cheap seats at the back with tears of joy and utter despair rolling down my face. I wrote a note and begged a security guard to pass it to her.
“It said, ‘Darling I have been looking for you. I am so proud of you and I love you so much and I just long to tell you that in person. Love Dad’. But no matter how much I begged the guard he would not believe I was her father.” Christopher – who has framed Destiny’s Child posters on the walls of the Atlanta home he shares with his second wife Gracie – says he wants nothing from his daughter.
Kelly, who is busy trotting around the UK hosting 'X-Factor UK", has spoken in the past about her father saying:
"I don't know where he is but I hope he's not dead. That would break my heart.
"I remember my dad being drunk and aggressive towards my mom but not me. I don't know if he knows who I am or what I've done. He must be hiding under a rock if he doesn't."
Hopefully Kelly can work things out if that's what she truly wants. We just don't want to see this get publicly ugly as similar stories have ended up....
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