Nick Cannon feels he’s been ‘villainised’ as a ‘deadbeat dad’ after fathering 12 children
Posted by  badge Boss on May 08, 2023 - 05:15PM
Nick Cannon has 12 children with six women, including Mariah Carey (Picture: Getty)

claims he has been unfairly ‘villainised’ and given a ‘deadbeat dad title’ after having 12 children with six women.

Of those 12 children fathered by , 42, who was between 2008 and 2016, five of them are less than a year old.

While married to Mariah, Nick had twins before going on to father and raise nine other children with five other women between 2016 and 2023.

in December 2021 aged just six months after a battle with a brain tumour – and Nick said he shouldn’t be dismissed as a bad father.

‘I’ve been villainised,’ he said. ‘I hear all the time: “You can’t be present for all those children”, so therefore I get this deadbeat dad title.’

Speaking to the , Nick continued: ‘[My partners] know who they are. [They don’t want] someone who’s telling them they’re the only one but still f*** the neighbour.’

Nick and Mariah Carey had two children together (Picture: FilmMagic)

Nick is currently a dad to six-year-old Golden, two-year-old Powerful, and seven-month-old Rise – the three children were born to Nick and dancer Brittany Bell.

He is also dad to one-year-old twins Zion and Zillion, and five-month-old Beautiful with US radio DJ Abby De La Rosa.

With Selling Sunset star and real estate agent Bre Tiesi, Nick is the father of nine-month-old Legendary and with model LaNisha Cole he’s father to seven-month-old Onyx.

Nick and Mariah’s marriage lasted eight years before their divorce in 2016 (Picture: Getty)
Nick with Abby De La Rosa and twins Zion and Zillion (Picture: Instagram)

His most recently born child, Halo, four months old, is with model Alyssa Scott, who was also mum to his late son Zen.

Also in his interview, Nick revealed his plan to never marry again after finalising his divorce from Mariah in 2016.

‘[As a man] who’s made his bones, you’re not looking to give half of what you built to someone you don’t even know,’ he said.

Last month, Nick didn’t hold back when he was afters its recent cancellation.

He remarked: ‘They made all them memes about my brother Will on that damn table — they didn’t need to do that.’