Nick Cannon has a gaggle of children with mothers who love to post photos of them on social media all day — but his ex-wife, Mariah Carey, isn’t one of those mothers.
During an appearance on The Jason Lee Podcast on May 8, the father-of-12 revealed that his eldest children — twins Moroccan and Monroe, whom he shares with Carey — aren’t as public as his other children.
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“I love it, but Mariah is more of a private person, which I understand,” he said, revealing that Moroccan likes to go on Twitch from time to time, but that he knows how to set firm boundaries when need be. “So it’s a balance, it’s alignment. I let them run. They make TikTok videos with me and do all this stuff. And they do it with Mariah too, but I let them have a little bit more freedom, especially stepping into the place of being almost teenagers.”
Cannon also revealed that Carey, herself, has some boundaries in place when it comes to his gaggle of babies. “She’s high frequency. She’s like, ‘You alright? How you doing? You handling it all?’ And she’s like, ‘As long as you don’t bring that bullshit to the manor of Carey.’ She lives in her own world. Nothing can infiltrate that. When we talk daily, she just checks in on my spirit,” he said.
Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey were married from 2008 to 2016. But back in 2022, during a chat with The Hot Tee Talk Show, Cannon participated in a segment called “Spin The Block” and was asked if he’d “spin the block” for Mariah Carey.
Without hesitation, Cannon replied, “Of course. That’s my fantasy. That’s somebody I will always love. I will never have a love like I had with Mariah. If I had the opportunity … if it could be the way that it was? Pfft. I’m there.” He then added a reference to Carey’s 1995 single, “Always be my baby” before concluding, “We belong together.”
Cannon has expressed similar sentiments in the past. On Valentine’s Day that same year, the 41-year-old shared a single from Raw ‘N B: The Explicit Tape titled “Alone,” which samples Carey’s 1990 single “Love Takes Time.” As part of the verse, he admits he’s been pining for her ever since they divorced.
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“As much as I want you back, it’s probably better where you at,” he sang. “Probably better where you at ’cause I’m still running the streets/ I’m still all in the sheets, having babies/ Models and singers and actresses all sayin’ they’re pregnant by me/ Have to pay $10,000 a week, I take of my peeps/ Now you don’t worry about when I creep, you got a man next to you when you sleep.”
