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KELLY ROWLAND'S FATHER: Please Forgive Me!

Well isn't this convenient.  Kelly Rowland's birth father--who left her at a young age--is coming out of the woodwork and making a public plea for her forgiveness.  And he's doing so through the press, of course.

What Kelly's dad, Christopher Lovett, just told the tabloids when you read on....

"Kelly, I love you with all my heart," the Sunday Mirror quotes him as saying. "Please forgive me and let me be your dad again."

Here we go.  After almost 2 decades in the public eye, and after spending part of her childhood growing up in her former group mate Beyonce's home, Kelly Rowland's birth father, who she says she remembers as an aggressive drunk, is now reaching out. 

Kelly's been open about her relationship with her father, or lack thereof, which caused her and her mother to deal with seriously hard times.  And led to Kelly moving in with Beyonce and the Knowles family while they began their girl group.

Reportedly, Kelly's father, Christopher, is 65 now and reveals he lost his job and fell into a drunken depression during her youth.  When the family was evicted from their home when Kelly was 7, Christopher parted ways with Kelly and her mother, Doris