Nick Cannon Says 12 Youngsters Had been His ‘Trauma’ Response After Divorce

Nick Cannon says “trauma” stemming from his 2014 divorce from Mariah Carey led to him fathering 12 kids.

In an interview on “The Breakfast Membership” revealed Monday, September 15, Cannon, 44, explicitly defined that the pair’s break-up, in addition to strain from his profession, sophisticated his decision-making talents.

“I didn’t get an opportunity to decelerate till I obtained in remedy,” Cannon mentioned.. “However I used to be identical to, ‘Look, I simply obtained to maintain creating wealth. I obtained to remain scorching. I obtained to remain humorous.’ And the whole lot else figured itself out. And I simply didn’t do the work. So then I regarded up with 12 children later. Wow, I might have did issues very in another way.”

He added, “However I stand agency on all of my selections as a result of I like all my children. I like my household infrastructure. However I do know it began from a spot of ache and not likely therapeutic correctly.”

After host Charlamagne Tha God requested point-blank if Cannon believes having “all these children was a response to [Cannon’s] trauma,” the Drumline star answered, “Yeah. I’m studying that now.”

Cannon defined, “It wasn’t like I used to be performing out. It was extra of being careless, being frivolous with my course of, as a result of I might do it, as a result of I had the cash, as a result of I had the entry to whoever and nonetheless I wished to maneuver.”

He added: “[As] against doing a mature factor and saying, ‘Hey, properly, it in all probability makes extra sense to do that.’ After which, clearly, life occurs as properly. So it wasn’t like, ‘Properly, I’m gonna go have 12 children.’ It was extra about, like, ‘Yo, I’mma simply dwell life and have enjoyable and no matter occurs, occurs, I can deal with it.”

Cannon shares twins Moroccan and Monroe, each 14, with Carey, who he was married to from 2008 to 2016; he shares sons Golden Saigon, 8, and Rise Messiah, 2, and daughter Highly effective Queen, 4, with Brittany Bell; twin sons Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Inheritor, each 4, and daughter Stunning Zeppelin, 2, with Abby De La Rosa; son Legendary Love, 3, with Bre Tiesi; daughter Onyx Ice Cole, 3, with LaNisha Cole; and daughter Halo Marie, 2, with Alyssa Scott. He and Scott are additionally dad and mom to son Zen, who died in December 2021 of a mind tumor.

The actor and tv host, who additionally opened up about his analysis of narcissistic persona dysfunction, mentioned remedy has helped. “Being nearly 45 now, I can sit again and be like, ‘If I’d have thought the method via just a little bit extra and took time to really do the inside work, issues may need been just a little totally different in sure eventualities,’” he shared.

He instructed cohost Loren Lorosa, “I’ve at all times mentioned this, each youngster that I’ve was made out of affection.”

He added, “And it was robust relationships. It’s simply if I’d have finished the work and the therapeutic after getting divorced, I in all probability would have took my time in a number of different eventualities. I believed that was the reply a number of instances. It was like, ‘Oh, I’mma determine it out over right here. I’mma determine it out over right here, [as] opposed [to] leaving trauma each step of the way in which, as a substitute fixing it from its origin.”

Carey and Cannon settled the phrases of their divorce in November 2016 after separating in December 2014. The pair agreed to joint custody of their twins and every stored the earnings they made throughout their marriage.

“They’re in a terrific place and an actual supply of help for each other — plus a primary instance of what coparents must be,” an insider solely instructed Us Weekly on the time.

Following their break up, Carey was engaged to billionaire James Packer, however the twosome known as issues off in October 2016. She later dated back-up dancer Bryan Tanaka from 2016 to 2023. Cannon has been linked to the moms of his kids however has not publicly been in a dedicated relationship since he and Carey separated.