Nick Cannon has revealed his Mother’s Day celebrations didn’t go as planned, and it’s all because he mixed up his baby mommas.
The father of 11 spoke about his busy Mother’s Day festivities in the latest episode of his Daily Cannon podcast, in which he revealed he wanted to gift the mothers of his children something a little more special.
Cannon explained he penned a handwritten message to each of his six baby mothers, but his sweet plan backfired when he accidentally sent the notes to the wrong women.
“I tried my best, I really did,” he said. “I thought it would be really, really good, you know, I could buy whatever. [But] to show people how you really feel: write it down. And I was doing handwritten messages from the heart.
“So as I’m arriving, I have written a message and I get the cards mixed up. So when one baby momma reads the card about how I feel about the other baby momma.”
He concluded: “See, if I would have just gotten some generic shit that everybody else got, that wouldn’t have happened.”
This unfortunately isn’t the first time Nick Cannon has struggled to differentiate certain members of his massive family. In an interview with Howard Stern last month, the Drumline star was unable to remember the names of all of his children.
Those names include Moroccan, Monroe, Golden, Powerful Queen, Zion, Zillion, Legendary, Onyx, Rise, Beautiful, Halo and the late Zen, who passed away at five months old in December 2021 after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
Stern pointed out that the Wild N’ Out host seemingly forgot to name his daughter, Onyx, whom he shares with LaNisha Cole.
“Ah, no!” Cannon laughed. “You know, I did. You threw me off because I was going in order!”
“Poor Onyx,” Stern replied.
Nick Cannon said in a separate interview with the Los Angeles Times that providing for a family like his requires an especially large salary, and revealed he makes around $100 million a year to support all of his kids.
“When you think about my lifestyle, I have to generate at least $100 million a year,” Cannon said, before admitting that he had children with his six different baby mothers partly because he’s a people pleaser.
“A lot of them are in the same age group,” he said, noting that they all wanted to have children. “And I just wanted to give them what they desired. I kept saying, ‘I can handle it.’”
He added that he’s seen the memes and the criticism directed at him and his growing family, and that he’s constantly pushing back on assumptions that he can’t properly provide for all his kids.
“I’ve been villainized,” Cannon added. “I hear all the time: ‘You can’t be present for all those children.’ So therefore I get this deadbeat-dad title.”
He continued: “It’s not about what I do for you or what I say to you, it’s about how you feel when I’m with you. If you feel loved when you see your dad, that’s what’s gonna resonate.”
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