"Careless" and "frivolous": Nick Cannon admits fathering 12 kids stemmed from trauma

Nick Cannon reflected on his famously big family, confessing that having 12 children was less about planning and more about responding to his trauma.

In an interview on The Breakfast Club morning radio show, the actor-rapper revealed:

"It wasn't like I was acting out. It was more of being careless, being frivolous with my process because I could do it, because I had the money [and] because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move."

Nick Cannon went on:

"[As] opposed to doing a mature thing and saying, ‘Hey, well, it probably makes more sense to do this.’ And then, obviously, life happens as well, so it wasn't like 'Oh, I'm gonna go have 12 kids.' It was more about like, 'Yo, I'm gonna just live life and have fun and whatever happens happens. I can handle it.'"

The Drumline star weighed in on what could have been if he had gone a different route.

"Being almost 45 now, I could sit back and like, yeah, if I would have thought the process through a little bit more and took time to actually do the inner work. Things might have been a little different in certain scenarios."

Nonetheless, Nick Cannon further stated that he wasn't certain whether doing the "inner work" would have prevented him from having many children.

"Because I've always said this, every child that I had was made out of love and there were strong relationships. If I would have did the work [and] the healing after getting divorced, I probably would have took my time in a lot other scenarios and for whatever reason I thought that was the answer a lot of times, like 'Oh, I'm gonna figure it out over here.'"

The Get Crunk Shorty hitmaker added:

"Now, you're leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from its origin."

Who are Nick Cannon's children?

Nick Cannon shares twins, Monroe and Moroccan, with former wife Mariah Carey. They were married in 2008 and got divorced in 2016.

The rapper also fathers Rise Messiah, Golden Sagon, and Powerful Queen with Brittany Bell. They started dating in 2016 and reportedly called it quits sometime in 2020.

Nick Cannon shares a daughter, Beautiful Zeppelin, and twins, Zillion Heir and Zion Mixolydian, with Abby De La Rosa. They began their relationship in 2021. Last March, De La Rosa described that her relationship with Cannon is an "open, polyamorous arrangement."

Cannon is a father to Legendary Love with Bre Tiesi. The rapper has been in an on-and-off relationship with the TV personality for ten years.

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He also has a daughter, Onyx Ice Cole, with LaNisha Cole. Cannon and Cole first dated in 2017 and rekindled their romance in 2020, a time when he was also having kids with Bell.

The star also had two children, Zen and Halo Marie, with Alyssa Scott, whom he started dating in 2021. Zen sadly passed away in December that year at only five months old due to brain cancer.

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