Nick Cannon recently opened up about how he feels about becoming Mr. Mariah Carey when she was a superstar and he was still early in his career, suggesting it led to their eventual divorce.
The “Masked Singer” host, 44, spoke about his marriage to Carey, 55, during an appearance on the most recent episode of the “Ray Daniels Presents” podcast. The couple married in 2008 and share 13-year-old twins Morocco and Monroe. They divorced in 2014.
“I got married in my 20s… to the biggest star in the world,” Cannon said, describing Carey’s fame as being in “another stratosphere.”
But her fame put him at ease for a while. “She has islands and I wake up at noon and people bring me steaks on a plate,” he said of married life.
“I stay up all night thinking, ‘Is this me? Is this Mariah’s man? Is this my life?'” he said. When their children were born, he said he struggled with the family’s “hierarchy.”
“I was carrying a purse, a diaper bag and, you know, I was standing on the corner going ‘Wait.’ She is rocking as the alpha,” Cannon said.
When the host said, “She deserves it,” Cannon agreed. “I believe she needs a guy like that. I’m not that guy,” he said.
Since their divorce, Cannon has gone on to welcome 10 more children with several women: Golden, 7, Power, 3, twins Zion and Zillion, 3, Legendary, 2, Onyx, 2, Rise, 2, Beautiful, 1 and Halo 1. Another child, Zen, passed away in 2021.
However, the couple remained friendly.
“She always asked me, ‘Are you okay? Are you okay? Are you handling it all?'” Cannon said. “When we talk every day, she’s just checking in on me mentally.”
— With TMX reporting
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