David Foster’s daughter Amy Foster is protecting her father towards claims he abandoned his older youngsters for 2-year-old son Rennie.
After David, 74, took to social media on Friday, January 5, to proportion a video of his infant acting at the drums, a couple of Instagram trolls used the chance to critique the song composer’s parenting taste and poke a laugh at his age.
“Lol!!!! He’s the dad…..he’s also got daughters (he abandoned) older than me,” one person wrote within the feedback phase, whilst every other added, “Dang. He’s 74 and the father of a 3 [sic] year old.”
Amy, 50, temporarily jumped in to close down the allegations. “Hi, I’m a daughter. Absolutely no abandonment,” she responded. “I literally just talked to my dad five minutes ago. Are you sticking up for us? It’s so hard to tell these days.”
Calling the video of Rennie “amazing,” Amy wondered why somebody would remove “something negative” from his fantastic skill prior to pointing towards her and her sisters’ “compliments” in other places within the thread.
“We’re great,” she added of the circle of relatives. “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 stocks with spouse Katharine McPhee.
Whilst Amy made it transparent that his youngsters cling no resentment towards for his or her dad, David has been candid up to now about feeling absent from his youngsters’ lives previous in his occupation.
“I missed a lot because I didn’t raise them,” he informed Folks in a January 2023 interview. “The geography was really tough. That was my own doing and a regret that I have, but it was what it was and there was no changing it. So I did the best I could, which was quite imperfect at times. Plus, I worked so much. I mean, I’ve made a pound of music in my life.”
Now, on the other hand, the Grammy winner is taking a “different” way to parenting and seeking to be extra provide along with his youngest son. “Not better or worse, just different,” he defined. “I still work, I’m still gone a lot, but maybe the time is a little more precious to me because I got more runway behind me than I have ahead of me now.”
A part of that new technique is being through Rennie’s aspect as he continues to find his skill for drumming. David and McPhee, 39, who tied the knot in 2019, have continuously shared movies of the 2-year-old practising and studying the craft.
Whilst speaking to Us Weekly on the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7, David shared that he and McPhee don’t have an reason behind Rennie’s fantastic skill.
“We play together and I jam with him, but I don’t know where he learned. I swear I’m not a drummer. I have no idea how he learned. So fluid. That’s the real mind-blowing thing,” David informed Us, including, “He’s not even potty-trained.”
McPhee, in the meantime, in the past informed Us in October 2023 that Rennie’s drumming has truly long past to “another level” up to now few months.
“And so now the text messages between me and my husband are changing. ‘This is really crazy, right?’ The control, the obsession of the drive of playing as much as he does throughout the day,” she endured. “I’ll say, ‘Do you want to go to the park? Do you want to go somewhere, like, fun?’ Somewhere where any kid would say, ‘Yeah!’ And he said, ‘I wanna play my drums.’”
McPhee admitted she kind of “pooh-poohed it around” prior to truly taking her son’s interest for song significantly, nevertheless it’s now an “undeniable” phase of his long run. “I don’t know whether he’ll stick with it, but it’s pretty impressive, I will say,” she informed Us.