David Foster’s daughter Amy Foster is defending her father in opposition to claims he abandoned his older youngsters for 2-year-old son Rennie.
After David, 74, took to social media on Friday, January 5, to share a video of his toddler acting on the drums, just a few Instagram trolls used the chance to critique the music composer’s parenting fashion and poke enjoyable at his age.
“Lol!!!! He’s the dad…..he’s additionally received daughters (he deserted) older than me,” one person wrote within the feedback part, whereas one other added, “Dang. He’s 74 and the daddy of a 3 [sic] yr outdated.”
Amy, 50, rapidly jumped in to close down the allegations. “Hello, I’m a daughter. Completely no abandonment,” she replied. “I actually simply talked to my dad 5 minutes in the past. Are you sticking up for us? It’s so exhausting to inform as of late.”
Calling the video of Rennie “superb,” Amy questioned why anybody would take away “one thing damaging” from his unimaginable expertise earlier than pointing towards her and her sisters’ “compliments” elsewhere within the thread.
“We’re nice,” she added of the household. “We love our dad. Our dad loves us and we love how our dad is with Rennie.”
David is the daddy of six youngsters: Allison Jones, 53, Amy,Sara Foster, 42, Erin Foster, 41, and Jordan Foster, 37, and Rennie, whom he shares with spouse Katharine McPhee.
Whereas Amy made it clear that his youngsters maintain no resentment towards for his or her dad, David has been candid previously about feeling absent from his children’ lives earlier in his profession.
“I missed loads as a result of I didn’t increase them,” he advised Individuals in a January 2023 interview. “The geography was actually powerful. That was my very own doing and a remorse that I’ve, however it was what it was and there was no altering it. So I did the very best I may, which was fairly imperfect at instances. Plus, I labored a lot. I imply, I’ve made a pound of music in my life.”
Now, nonetheless, the Grammy winner is taking a “completely different” strategy to parenting and attempting to be extra current along with his youngest son. “Not higher or worse, simply completely different,” he defined. “I nonetheless work, I’m nonetheless gone loads, however possibly the time is a bit more valuable to me as a result of I received extra runway behind me than I’ve forward of me now.”
A part of that new technique is being by Rennie’s facet as he continues to find his expertise for drumming. David and McPhee, 39, who tied the knot in 2019, have typically shared movies of the 2-year-old practising and studying the craft.
Whereas speaking to Us Weekly on the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7, David shared that he and McPhee don’t have an evidence for Rennie’s unimaginable expertise.
“We play collectively and I jam with him, however I don’t know the place he realized. I swear I’m not a drummer. I do not know how he realized. So fluid. That’s the true mind-blowing factor,” David advised Us, including, “He’s not even potty-trained.”
McPhee, in the meantime, beforehand advised Us in October 2023 that Rennie’s drumming has actually gone to “one other degree” previously few months.
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“And so now the textual content messages between me and my husband are altering. ‘That is actually loopy, proper?’ The management, the obsession of the drive of taking part in as a lot as he does all through the day,” she continued. “I’ll say, ‘Do you wish to go to the park? Do you wish to go someplace, like, enjoyable?’ Someplace the place any child would say, ‘Yeah!’ And he mentioned, ‘I wanna play my drums.’”
McPhee admitted she form of “pooh-poohed it round” earlier than actually taking her son’s ardour for music significantly, however it’s now an “plain” a part of his future. “I don’t know whether or not he’ll keep it up, however it’s fairly spectacular, I’ll say,” she advised Us.
