Kelly Rowland's Father Tries To Reconnect

Kelly and Mum

Former destiny child's member Kelly Rowland may be having a fantastic time in career right now, but deep down the singer has been yearning to have a relationship with her dad.

3 years ago the singer tried looking for her dad who she hadn't seen since she was 8, with no success

Now her father, 65 year old Christopher Lovett, has stepped up to the plate and is looking for forgiveness. He tells the UK Mirror that he hasn’t seen Kelly in 13 years and admits that his alcohol abuse and angry temper was the reason behind their family falling apart. .............

On his memories of Kelly Rowland“Kelly, I love you with all my heart. Please forgive me and let me be your dad again.[...]“I loved her from the moment she took her first breath. I remember as clear as day Kelly and I singing together, from

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the moment she could talk. Our ­favorite 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 fueled an anger that I will be ashamed of until my dying day. It wasn’t physical between me and Kelly’s mom, 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. 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.”

On the Development of His Alcoholism & Anger Issues“I am a proud man and wanted the best for my family so when I lost my job I was utterly ashamed and hid from that shame with drink. 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.

On His Leaving & Never Seeing Kelly AgainLittle 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 mom 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.”

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.[...]I had heard she was doing well singing, but I didn’t know how well until I turned on the TV and saw her ­performing [with Destiny's Child]. I cried and cried, with sadness but also with pride at what a wonderful, talented young woman Kelly had grown into.”

On Going to a Destiny’s Child Concert & Leaving Kelly a Note“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.”

On Wanting to Reconnect
“I own a big home now and have retired so I don’t want any of Kelly’s fortune, I just want her love. I just hope she does not become such a big star in England on X Factor that she forgets about her dad completely. I’m getting old now – I just hope she reads this and doesn’t leave getting back in touch with me before it is too late.”