Nick Cannon said he tried his best to honor the mothers of his 12 children, sending them handwritten cards. The only problem? He got the recipients mixed up.
“I tried my best, I really did,” the 42-year-old said on his radio show “The Daily Cannon” on Monday.
Cannon noted that he could have bought “whatever” for his baby mamas but thought the “handwritten messages from the heart” were a “really, really good” idea.
“To show people how you really feel, write it down,” he said. “So then, as I’m writing the handwritten message, I get the cards mixed up. And then so when one baby mama reads the card about how I feel about the other baby mama…”
He added: “See, if I would just got some generic s—t that everybody else got, that wouldn’t have happened.”
The news came as a shock to Cannon’s co-hosts on the radio program, including Abby De La Rosa, with whom he shares twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, 23 months, and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin, 6 months.
“Damn,” De La Rosa said, after Cannon shared his story.
In addition to his and De La Rosa’s kids, Cannon’s family includes his twins Moroccan and Monroe, 12, with ex-wife Mariah Carey; his son Golden “Sagon,” 6, his daughter Powerful Queen, 2, and his son Rise Messiah, 6 months, with former Miss Arizona USA Brittany Bell.
The “Masked Singer” host also has son Legendary Love, 9 months, with “Selling Sunset” star Bre Tiesi; daughter Onyx Ice, 6 months, with photographer LaNisha Cole; and son, Zen, who died at 5 months in December 2021, and daughter Halo Marie, 5 months, with model Alyssa Scott.
Last month, Cannon talked about his large brood on the podcast “Howie Mandel Does Stuff.”
“I’m gonna be honest, I got some super sperm or something ‘cause I’ve practiced birth control, and people still got pregnant,” he told podcast host Howie Mandel. “I’m trying to be as responsible as I possibly can. [But] it’s hard to be responsible when you have super sperm.”