David Foster’s daughter Amy Foster stuck up for her dad after a troll claimed the music producer is an absentee father to his five eldest children.
David, 74, shared a video of his 2-year-old son, Rennie, whom he shares with his wife, Katharine McPhee, playing the drums on Instagram Friday.
“Drumming into the new year #still2yearsold,” he proudly captioned the post.
While several fans flooded the comments section to compliment Rennie’s skills, one follower chose to criticize the father of six.
“Lol!!! he is the dad…. He’s also got daughters (he abandoned) older than me…” the critic wrote.
Amy, 50, promptly took the opportunity to shut down the speculation, replying, “Hi….im a daughter…absolutely no abandonment.”
She continued, “I literally just talked to my dad five minutes ago. Are you sticking up for us? It’s so hard to tell these days…”
Amy called out the hater for dramatizing a post about Rennie’s musical talents.
“You see a video with an amazing two year old and your take away is something negative?” she asked before insisting she and her sisters are all supportive of their half-brother and still in their father’s life.
“All you have to do is look at the comments and Rennie’s sisters have all chimed in with compliments,” she pointed out.
“We’re great. We love our dad. Our dad loves us and we love how our dad is with Rennie,” Amy concluded.
David shares Amy with his first wife, Bonnie Jean “B.J.” Cook, to whom he was married from 1972 to 1981. He also shares daughter Allison, 53, with an ex-girlfriend whose identity is unknown, as well as daughters Sara, 42, Erin, 41, and Jordan, 37, with his second wife, Rebecca Dyer.
He and Dyer were married from 1982 to 1986. The composer was also married to Linda Thompson from 1991 to 2005 and Yolanda Hadid from 2011 to 2017, though they did not have children together.
David then married McPhee, 39, in 2019, and they welcomed their son in 2021.
The Grammy winner has admitted to struggling to balance parenting his daughters with his career in the past.
“I missed a lot because I didn’t raise them,” he told People in 2020. “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.”
He added, “Plus, I worked so much. I mean, I’ve made a pound of music in my life.”
Three years later, David shared that he wanted to do things differently after welcoming his first son at the age of 71.
“At this point in my life, it’s different again,” he told the magazine in 2023. “Not better or worse, just different. 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.”
