Nick Cannon Says Having 12 Kids Was 'careless' Without Confronting Trauma First

Television prima Nick Cannon, known for having 12 children pinch six women, said having truthful galore kids was "careless" without moving done his ain trauma first.

The big of TV's "Masked Singer" arsenic good arsenic "Nick Cannon astatine Night" revealed his reassessment of his fatherhood travel during an quality Monday connected "The Breakfast Club" power show and podcast, hosted by Charlamagne Tha God, Jess Hilarious and DJ Envy.

Asked astir his decisions to begetter his children, Cannon, who has besides worked arsenic a comedian, euphony creator and actor, said he mightiness person done things otherwise knowing what he's learned successful therapy astir really puerility trauma tin impact big behavior.

"If I would person did nan activity and nan treatment ... I astir apt would person took my clip successful a batch of different scenarios," he said. "Things mightiness person been a small different."

Cannon said his 2016 divorcement from vocalist Mariah Carey aft 8 years of matrimony added to his individual trauma. The 2 had his first children, twins Monroe and Moroccan Scott, successful 2011. Cannon told nan show he acted retired aft nan breakup.

"A batch of it is nan the trauma that I was experiencing of not knowing really to grip divorce," he said. "I'm like, 'Oh, I'm nan man now.' And alternatively of treatment and doing what I should person really did, I conscionable jumped retired there."

However, he emphasized nan value of his children and expressed nary regrets.

"Every kid that I had was made retired of love, and location were beardown relationships," Cannon said connected nan podcast, which originates astatine New York City hip-hop power position Power 105.1.

Following nan divorcement of his ain parents, Cannon has said, he was raised by his grandparents successful publically assisted lodging successful a Southeast San Diego vicinity known for its "four corners of death" intersection wherever gangs collided. He has four younger brothers.

In June, he told Bobbi Althoff’s “The Really Good Podcast" that coming from a large family made him want to person a large family. He besides said it's improbable he'll person much children.

"I deliberation I'm done," he said astatine nan time.

After having twins pinch Carey, Cannon fathered 10 different children.

Model Brittany Bell shares boy Golden Sagon, calved successful 2017, girl Powerful Queen, calved successful 2020, and boy Rise Messiah, calved successful 2022, pinch Cannon; photographer LaNisha Cole shares girl Onyx Ice Cole, calved successful 2022, pinch Cannon; DJ and power characteristic Abby De La Rosa shares twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, calved successful June 2021, and girl Beautiful Zeppelin, calved successful 2022, pinch Cannon; Model Alyssa Scott shared boy Zen, who died from a malignant encephalon tumor astatine 5 months aged successful 2021 pinch Cannon; nan 2 besides stock girl Halo Marie, calved successful precocious 2022. Real property supplier and exemplary Bre Tiesi shares boy Legendary Love, calved successful 2022, pinch Cannon.

“When I was 30, I didn’t person immoderate kids," Cannon told "The Really Good Podcast." "Then by nan clip I was 40, I had 12.”

His success, including appearances successful movies specified arsenic "Drumline" and tv hits specified arsenic "Wild 'N Out," brought him an estimated $100 cardinal a twelvemonth successful income by nan 2020s, which he has said he now needs to supply for his children.

The money whitethorn person besides clouded his judgement, he said connected "The Breakfast Club."

“It wasn’t for illustration I was acting out,” he said. “It was much of being careless, being frivolous pinch my process, because I could do it, because I had nan money.”

He said that astatine nan clip he was having children he thought he would "figure it out" on nan way. Lately that includes family counseling sessions pinch immoderate of his children, he said.

"I didn't get a chance to slow down until I sewage successful therapy," Cannon said of his fatherhood journey. "But I was conscionable like, 'Look, I conscionable sewage to support making money. I sewage to enactment hot, I sewage to enactment funny and everything other will fig itself out.' And I conscionable didn't do nan work. So past I looked up, you know, 12 kids later, and I'm like, wow, I could person did things very differently."