Kelly Slater admits his deepest regrets again

Yesterday, a video was posted on YouTube by Surfline that gained much attention, the conversation revolved about Kelly Slater’s personal life. He said, “I’m trying to unwind myself with my own daughter who’s now 27 and married.” This was similar to another video of his interview with Graham Bensinger from Jun 17, 2016, titled, ‘Kelly Slater: Tough to be there for daughter,’ where he expressed, “I think probably the hardest part for me is my daughter feeling like she doesn’t have a dad there all the time.”

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Back then it was more of “guilt,” as he explained, “People have kids and then their career kind of stops or gets put on hold and you know…I think in that sense I probably have a little bit of guilt about that.” Though, Taylor’s mother, Tamara Mitchell, was a major influence on her upbringing during Kelly’s absence and mostly away from the limelight.

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Kelly acknowledges the importance of having both parents in a child’s life and has candidly expressed his regret for his absence. However, despite these early difficulties, a strong father-daughter relationship has grown between them, something Slater isn’t looking to repeat with his baby.

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