Singer Kelly Rowland's estranged father Christopher Lovett hopes to unite with her one day.
Rowland's mother Doris left him when the singer was just seven-years-old. He has not met her ever since.
"So many previous years have passed and I'm getting old. I just pray she comes back into my life before it's too late," radaronline.com quoted Lovett, 67, as saying.
Lovett's behaviour with Doris was not good and Rowland was a witness to that.
"I couldn't control it. I hoped I could make it up to her. But I'm still waiting for that day," said Lovett.