Mariah Carey offered a rare update on her coparenting situation with ex-husband Nick Cannon.
“How do I say this? They spend time with him, and they have a good time,” Carey, 56, shared in a Harper’s Bazaar profile published on Tuesday, July 29. “They spend time with me, and they have a good time.”
Carey and Cannon, 44, got married in April 2008. The former couple announced their separation in 2014 and finalized their divorce two years later. Carey and Cannon share fraternal twins, son Moroccan and daughter Monroe, both 14.
“I want to make sure I’m always fair about the situation because it’s tough to grow up with divorced parents,” Carey added, without going into too much detail about her and Cannon’s current relationship.
Along with the twins, Cannon has 10 other kids. He shares Golden, 8, Powerful Queen, 4, and Rise, 3, with Brittany Bell, as well as twins Zion and Zillion, 3, and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin, 2 with Abby De La Rosa. He welcomed son Legendary, 2, and daughter Onyx, 2, with Bre Tiesi and LaNisha Cole, respectively. He also shares daughter Halo, 2, with Alyssa Scott. (Cannon shared another child, son Zen, with Scott, who died from brain cancer at 5 months old.)
With his family expanding, Cannon has spoken candidly about coparenting with the six mothers of his children.
He told Vulture earlier this month that his kids are “by-product of his eagerness to appease the women he was dating or his single friends who wanted kids.” Cannon also admitted that having five children in 2022 alone might have been too much.
“It was also a little bit of, like, ‘OK, God, how did I have five kids in one year?’ Probably careless activity,” he admitted.
Cannon offered words of support to the mothers of his children during a September 2024 interview with Us Weekly.
“I thank God for their mothers,” he said at the time. “They kind of plan accordingly, and they don’t have to be, but they’re real empathetic to my process. So, you know, they do things. I’ve seen them make so many sacrifices, so I can be there and haven’t missed a birth or a birthday yet.”
Cannon also told Us that his personal and professional lives are “all the same” to him.
“I’m so grateful to wake up each and every day, and whatever’s on the schedule, on the task, I’m like, ‘Let’s get it.’ Let’s say that,” he explained. “So, it doesn’t seem hectic until somebody else points it out.”
