'He needs to hear my side': Joe Rogan's dad offers son olive branch while denying claims of violence
This week, Joe Rogan's father came forward to refute the numerous accusations that his well-known comedian and podcast host son has leveled against him. According to reports, Joe Rogan Sr hasn't spoken to or seen his now-famous 55-year-old son in close to 50 years. He claimed that the comedian and his sister, Laura, were allegedly taken from him 48 years ago when their mother, Susan, abruptly took the siblings to San Francisco one year after their split.
However, the father of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast host, who served as a police officer in Harrison, New Jersey for more than 30 years prior, has now spoken to The Sun and expressed interest in having a first-ever meeting with his son. Rogan Sr told The Sun, “I’m on my way out. I’m 80 years old, I’m in the rearview mirror. But I would like to see him. I definitely would sit down with him because he needs to listen to my side of the story. He never asked, didn’t know what I have to say. He doesn’t know how much it hurt me, and what I had to go through.”
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Meanwhile, the younger Rogan frequently discussed his father’s allegedly vicious and violent tendencies during interviews and segments on his podcast. In addition to calling his father ‘crazy’ and a ‘psychotic person,’ Rogan Jr said that he also ‘beat the f***’ out of his mother's cousin, kids, and several other people. On a controversial episode of his podcast, the younger Rogan claimed, "So that was all my s*** from when I was like, really young. I got to see someone who just can’t keep it together, smacks women, beats the s*** out of kids, beats the s*** out of them.”
Rogan Jr also said in an interview with Rolling Stone that Rogan Jr. also said in an interview with Rolling Stone that "when you grow up with violence, you're programmed to respond and react quickly" and that he only remembers ‘brief flashes of domestic violence’ from his father's presence. But Rogan Sr has strongly refuted his son's accusations, insisting that “there were no police reports, no complaints against [him], no restraining orders, nothing,” when his children were taken to San Francisco.
Rogan Sr explained, “I’m not a crybaby but I’ve been putting up with this for 25 years since he got famous. You got to be a man in life, and you take the good with the bad and you could just go along with some of it. Nobody ever asked me about my side. They print his side. Nobody asked me how I felt when I came home from Florida and they were gone. No warning, no nothing.”