Well isn't this convenient. Kelly Rowland's birth father-who left her at a new age-is coming out of the carpentry and fashioning 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 take on....
"Kelly, I know 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 nearly 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 stretch out.
Kelly's been clear about her relationship with her father, or lack thereof, which caused her and her father to cope 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 missed his job and fly into a drunken depression during her youth. When the class was evicted from their house when Kelly was 7, Christopher parted ways with Kelly and her mother, Doris.
He now supposedly tells the Sunday Mirror:
"The loser to allow for my family fuelled an anger that I will be ashamed of until my death day. No parent should scream and cry in presence of their child, and I am sad to say there were too many times to note that Kelly heard me screaming abuse at her mother. Sometimes she would run to her bedroom screaming, others she would stick to my trouser leg begging me to stop.
"I really hoped I would get to get it up to her. Sadly I am still wait for that day. But I can't make up hope. That's why there is a way in my family which I have decorated especially for Kelly, just in character she comes through the front door."
He went on to identify what actually happened-according to him-with him and Kelly's mother:
"I loved her from the second she took her first breath. I think as light as day Kelly and I singing together, from the instant she could talk. Our favourite songs were by Stevie Wonder. I would put one headphone in my ear and the former in hers and we would whistle and sing, so glad to be together.
"But so I missed my job at a shipping company, sank into a depression about money and began drinking more and more. The loser to leave for my family fuelled an anger that I will be ashamed of until my death day.
"It wasn`t physical between me and Kelly`s mum, but there were many years and nights when Kelly would be bawling her eyes out, clutching my leg begging me, `Please daddy stop yelling at mummy`. That picture of her howling, begging me to check will haunt me forever.
He also revealed his attempts of trying to find Kelly when she was younger, but he claims he was always shut out by Kelly's aunts and family:
"When Doris challenged me, I would only suffer it. No parent should scream and cry in presence of their child, and I am sad to say there were too many times to note that Kelly heard me screaming abuse at her mother. Sometimes she would run to her bedroom screaming, others she would stick 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 love the day they left would be the end 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 only no way of acquiring the 20 miles to where they were staying.
"When six months had passed I begged a champion for a drive to her aunt`s house and she told me they had affected to Texas. I begged her to pass me an address, but she flat-out refused." For the next 23 years, Christopher did everything he could to find Kelly, who will look on the X Factor in August. He says: "I knew I had to quit drinking, get a job or I would never see my daughter again.
"And I did.
"But by then it was too deep and they were gone, the two people I loved with all my essence and that tore me up and yet does today." At one place he drove 800 miles to Texas and walked from hotel to hotel in a failed effort to find Kelly and her mother.
He also clams to have bought a fine 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 rear with tears of joy and perfect despair roll down my face. I wrote a notice and begged a security guard to give it to her.
"It said, `Darling I have been looking for you. I am so proud of you and I know you so often and I only long to say you that in person.Love Dad`. But no matter how often I begged the guard he would not think 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 round the UK hosting 'X-Factor UK", has spoken in the past about her mother saying:
"I don't live where he is but I hope he's not dead. That would give my heart.
"I think 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 make things out if that's what she really wants. We simply don't wish to see this get publicly ugly as similar stories have ended up....
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