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Nick Cannon Says He Was ‘Careless’ With How He Had 12 Kids

“Things might have been a little different,” the TV host said.

Nick Cannon said it was “careless” of him to father 12 children with six different women before working through his own trauma first. Appearing on the Breakfast Club this week, the 44-year-old Masked Singer host reflected on his rapid family expansion after having his first kids, twins Monroe and Moroccan Scott, with ex-wife Mariah Carey in 2011. “If I would have did the work and the healing ... I probably would have took my time in a lot of other scenarios,” Cannon said. “Things might have been a little different.” After his divorce from Carey in 2016, Cannon said he “acted out” without processing his personal trauma, telling host Charlamagne Tha God: “A lot of it is the trauma that I was experiencing of not knowing how to handle divorce. I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m the man now.’ And instead of healing and doing what I should have actually did, I just jumped out there.” Cannon said things might have turned out differently if he took time to process his inner trauma, but also said that he doesn’t regret having any of his 12 kids as they were all “made out of love.” In March, Cannon told People that he is “pressing hold” on having any more children for now, but admitted he’s “not against” having more in future.