Retired New Jersey cop Joe Rogan Sr. hasn’t seen or spoken to his son since he was 7, when his ex-wife—from whom he was divorced around two years prior—moved across the U.S. from the Garden State to San Francisco, California. The family eventually settled in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts.

Over the years, Rogan Sr.—who said that he didn’t fight for custody for fear of his son ending up in foster care—would be publicly spoken of in unsavory terms by Rogan, who has stated on a number of occasions that his father was violent.

Making the allegations on his popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan, 55, has described his father, 80, as a “very, very violent guy,” who he claimed he had witnessed attacking other people. He also alleged that his dad beat his mother.

Speaking to The Sun from his home in Kearny, New Jersey, Rogan Sr. denied the allegations of domestic violence, saying: “When they left me, there was no police reports, no complaints against me, no restraining orders, nothing.

“I took him every Friday for almost a year. Friday, Saturday and Sunday—he was with me. I would go get him and I would watch him and take care of him. If I was the big bad wolf, they would have had a restraining order against me.

“Why did [Rogan’s mother] keep the name? I couldn’t understand that. Honest to God. If I was so terrible, why didn’t she take the name away from him when she got married and gave him his new name?”

In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, former Fear Factor host Rogan described his estranged father as a “violent scary guy” with whom he did not want contact.

“All I remember of my dad are these brief, violent flashes of domestic violence,” he said at the time. “But I don’t want to complain about my childhood. Nothing bad ever really happened to me. It was just confusing, you know? He was just a very violent, scary guy. After the split, we moved to San Francisco and that was it. Never heard from him again.”

“I don’t want to try to figure out what went wrong,” he said later in the interview. “I don’t hate the guy, I don’t want to beat his a**. I just don’t want to be involved with him, and I don’t want to talk to him. He was very nice to me, loved me. But he was super, super-violent, and he would have turned me into a f***ing psychopath.”

Per the article, Rogan Sr. didn’t respond directly to the allegations, but told the publication: “I don’t talk about people the way they talk about me. That’s not in my DNA. What’s gone is gone.”

Speaking to The Sun this week, Rogan Sr., who had twin daughters when he remarried, said that he has taken an enough-is-enough stance on the allegations.

“I’m not a cry baby but I’ve been putting up with this for like 25 years, since he got famous,” he said of his son. “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.

“But it got to a point now where it is totally out of control. I didn’t even know anything about violence until my daughter told me about one of these interviews. I had no idea.

“There isn’t one thing that’s in there that he said that is true. Nothing. Not one thing. Not even in the ballpark… I can take a lot. But there’s only so much and then you have to say something. Nobody ever asked me about my side. They print his side.”

Despite the allegations, Rogan Sr. said in the interview that he would like to reconcile with his son and bury the hatchet once and for all.

“I’m on my way out. I’m 80 years old, I’m in the rearview mirror,” he said. “But I would like to see him. For my daughters to meet him, just to say hello and say how we feel. You only live once. You can’t come back and do it again.

“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.”

Newsweek has reached out to a representative of Rogan for comment.