{"id":7720,"date":"2011-06-16T18:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T22:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7720"},"modified":"2011-06-16T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T22:01:04","slug":"kelly-rowlands-estranged-father-reaches-out-for-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7720","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Rowland’s Estranged Father Reaches Out For Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The estranged father of Kelly Rowland<\/strong> is reaching out to his daughter hoping to reconcile with her after 23 years without contact.<\/p>\n

Rowland<\/strong>, who is currently judging Simon Cowell’s<\/strong> U.K. X-Factor, has reportedly not seen her biological father Christopher Lovett<\/strong> since she was seven years old.<\/p>\n

Now Lovett<\/strong>, 65, hopes to change that and sat down for an interview with Britain’s The Daily Mirror where he spoke on his failed relationship with his daughter.<\/p>\n

Choking back tears he told The Mirror, \u201cKelly<\/strong>, I love you with all my heart. Please forgive me and let me be your dad again.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Lovett, he failed to provide for his family, had a drinking problem and a \u2018vicious temper’ that tore his \u00adfamily apart but says he loved his daughter from the very start.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved her from the moment she took her first breath. I \u00adremember as clear as day Kelly<\/strong> and I singing together, from the moment she could talk. Our \u00adfavorite 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.<\/p>\n

But then I lost my job at a \u00adtransportation company, sank into a depression about money and began drinking more and more. The failure to provide for my \u00adfamily fuelled an anger that I will be ashamed of until my dying day.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Rowland<\/strong> hasn’t had contact with him in over two decades, she previously spoke of her father in an interview saying,<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lovett<\/strong> also made sure to add that he’s not after his celebrity daughter’s money, but just wants to be in her life during his old age.<\/p>\n

I own a big home now and have retired so I don’t want any of Kelly’s<\/strong> fortune, I just want her love. I just hope she does not become such a big star in England on X<\/p>\n

Factor that she forgets about her dad \u00adcompletely. \u201cI’m getting old now \u2013 I just hope she reads this and doesn’t leave getting back in touch with me before it is too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lovett<\/strong> also revealed a time where he drove 8 hours to a Destiny’s Child concert to watch her perform and tried to give her a note but security guards who did not believe he was her real father, denied him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The estranged father of Kelly Rowland is reaching out to his daughter hoping to reconcile with her after 23 years without contact. Rowland, who is currently judging Simon Cowell’s U.K. X-Factor, has reportedly not seen her biological father Christopher Lovett since she was seven years old. Now Lovett, 65, hopes to change that and sat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}