Nick Cannon Says He Struggled With His Identity During Marriage To Mariah Carey

Nick Cannon has revealed the deep-seated insecurities that plagued him throughout his marriage to legendary singer Mariah Carey.

The comic disclosed that he struggled along with his masculinity on the time and sometimes questioned his id as he needed to settle with the strain that got here with getting married to somebody of Carey’s celeb standing.

Nick Cannon additionally just lately famous he can be comfortable getting again with Mariah Carey, including that it could “be silly if [he] did not.”

In Thursday’s look on the “Ray Daniels Presents” podcast, Cannon spoke on his break up from the “Feelings” songstress and shared how he questioned his id after they tied the knot in 2008.

In response to People Magazine, the “Wild ‘n Out” star opened up in regards to the self-doubt that lingered within the shadows of their marriage, confessing that he typically puzzled if all that he was as a person was being “Mariah’s man.”

“I did not truly actually care what the world thought as a result of the notion, you realize, that’s what it’s. Persons are going to like you someday, hate you the following day,” Cannon defined. “I might care much less about that. … However going to myself with that strain of, ‘Who am I?'”

“I received married in my 20s, you realize what I imply? To the largest star on the planet,” he continued.

“My trajectory was right here,” he stated, gesturing downwards, “after which hers — she’s already in a special stratosphere.”

The 44-year-old TV host went on to share how he struggled along with his id and masculinity of their relationship as he was typically pressured to succumb to the truth that Carey would take the lead, particularly together with her celebrity standing.

In response to the information outlet, he famous that he struggled to have his personal id away from Carey. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that he received “comfy” together with her, joking that “she’s received islands and I am waking up at midday and folks bringing me steaks on a platter.”

“I might lay up at night time considering, like, ‘Is that this who I’m? Am I Mariah’s man? Is that what my life is meant to be?'” Cannon recounted. “There’s nothing improper with it.”

The “Drumline” actor additionally defined that he struggled with the “hierarchy” of their household after they welcomed their twin children, Moroccan and Monroe, in April 2011.

“I am carrying a handbag, the diaper bag and, you realize, I am standing on the nook like, ‘Wait.’ She’s rocking being the alpha,” Cannon shared, agreeing when the podcast’s host acknowledged, “She deserves it.”

“I consider she wants a dude like that. I am simply not that dude,” Cannon added.

Again in August, Cannon alluded to mending his damaged relationship with the “Beneath the Mistletoe” singer, although it has been eight years since they finalized their divorce.

In an interview with E! Information alongside his “We Playin’ Spades” cohost Courtney Bee, the “Roll Bounce” actor shared his ideas on the likelihood that they’d discover their manner again to one another, claiming that they “belong collectively.”

When requested if he’d get again together with her, he replied, “Sure, completely. Be silly if I would not,” however clarified that “she don’t need me.”

To which his cohost Courtney joked, “Yeah, you achieved left and had like ten children.”

The “Love Do not Price A Factor” actor beforehand spoke to Web page Six about what elevating their teenage kids seems to be like for him, admitting that it has been “the scariest factor” on the planet.

“My daughter, she’s carrying make-up now. She would not put on it quite a bit, fortunately, nevertheless it scared me,” he stated of Monroe. “Like, we had been on the brink of go, we’re in Malibu about to go to dinner, and I used to be like, ‘What’s taking her so lengthy?'”

Cannon then disclosed that when he went to test on her, he discovered hair and make-up merchandise scattered “throughout” her bed room.

“I used to be like, ‘Wow, you are similar to your mother,'” he shared. “It is lovely to see however scary all on the similar time.”

Since his marriage to Carey, Cannon has gone on to father a number of kids with a number of different girls.

Apart from Moroccan and Monroe, the favored host can be dad to Golden, 7, Highly effective Queen, 3, and Rise, 1, whom he had with Brittany Bell; 3-year-old twins Zion and Zillion and Stunning, 1, with Abby De La Rosa; Legendary, 2, with Bre Tiesi; Onyx, 2, with LaNisha Cole; and Halo, 1, with Alyssa Scott.

Cannon additionally fathered a child boy named Zen with Scott however misplaced him at 5 months outdated in 2021 on account of a mind tumor.