Nick Cannon has had to step up and show out for his ever-growing brood — and he recently did so by dropping a few hundred thousand dollars on a Lamborghini for one of his baby mamas.
Taking to his Instagram stories on Saturday (May 20), the Drumline actor revealed that he’d purchased a Lamborghini truck for Bri Tiesi, who is one of the stars of Selling Sunset and the mother of his 11-month-old son, Legendary Love Cannon.
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Tiesi looked thrilled with her gift, which was adorned with balloons and wrapped with a bow.
“Nope! The government don’t have to tell us to pay child support,” Cannon captioned the story. “We pay Lambo support! Congratulations Boss Lady — you’re killing it! My money is their money! Just accept it, we different over here! LOL.”
Some of the reactions to Cannon’s pricey gift, however, were less than flattering.
“You gon need to buy 9 more my brother,” joked one commenter, making reference to his other baby mamas (although Cannon has six, not nine, in total — so far, anyway).
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“Should’ve gotten her a gift card ‘cause now he has to be consistent across the board or that child support WILL become a thing,” another person advised Cannon.
Another believed that the Lamborghini was just a cover for Nick Cannon’s philandering ways. “But have yall seen her on selling sunset? I really think they all think that he is THEY MAN. she calls him ‘her man’ even after she was blindsided by the baby that came after hers. Insanity,” they wrote.
With such a large and ever-growing family, Nick Cannon seems to have to work overtime to keep up with all the financial demands. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, The Masked Singer host revealed that he makes upwards of $100 million a year in order to support all his children (and their mothers).
“When you think about my lifestyle, I have to generate at least $100 million a year,” Cannon said, before admitting that he had children with his six different baby mothers partly because he’s a people pleaser.
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“A lot of them are in the same age group,” he said, noting that they all wanted to have children. “And I just wanted to give them what they desired. I kept saying, ‘I can handle it.’”
Cannon added that he’s aware of the memes and criticism directed at him and his growing family, and that he’s constantly pushing back on assumptions that he can’t properly provide for all his kids.
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“I’ve been villainized,” Cannon added. “I hear all the time: ‘You can’t be present for all those children.’ So therefore I get this deadbeat-dad title.”
He continued: “It’s not about what I do for you or what I say to you, it’s about how you feel when I’m with you. If you feel loved when you see your dad, that’s what’s gonna resonate.”
