Mariah Carey Dodges Question About Ex-Husband Nick Cannon, Says He’s ‘In His Own World’

Mariah Carey sidestepped a question about co-parenting her 14-year-old twins, Monroe and Moroccan, with ex-husband Nick Cannon during a recent television appearance.

In an interview with Gayle King on CBS Mornings, which aired on Thursday, September 24, King asked Carey how she navigates parenting when Cannon’s personal life is so public. Carey, 56, paused before answering.

“Hmmm,” she said, keeping her response brief. “I kinda feel like it’s best if I don’t talk about him because he can just be in his own world.”

The Grammy winner quickly added, “No offense to him.”

The moment went viral almost instantly, with fans weighing in on social media. “We all embarrassed by our baby daddy chile 😂,” one Instagram user joked.

Another wrote, “Not ‘be in his own world’ homegirl said we not in the same timeline 😭.”

Others defended Carey’s choice to keep her comments limited, with one noting, “She doesn’t want this serial baby daddy tied to her brand.”

Carey and Cannon, 44, finalized their divorce in November 2016. Since then, Cannon has become a father to 10 more children with five different women.

The Masked Singer host recently admitted on The Breakfast Club that his decision to expand his family so quickly was a “trauma response” to his divorce from Carey. “If I would have did the work [and] the healing after getting divorced, I probably would have took my time in a lot other scenarios,” Cannon said. He called his choices “careless” and “frivolous.”

Cannon shares three children with Brittany Bell — Golden, 8, Powerful, 4, and Rise, 2 — along with twins Zion and Zillion, 4, and daughter Beautiful, 2, with Abby De La Rosa. He is also the father of daughter Onyx, 3, with Lanisha Cole, son Legendary, 3, with Bre Tiesi, and daughter Halo, 2, with Alyssa Scott. Cannon and Scott’s first child together, son Zen, died in December 2021.

Cannon acknowledged that while he had the money and freedom to live as he wanted, he now sees the impact of his decisions. “For whatever reason, I thought that was the answer a lot of times,” he said. “Now, you’re leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from its origin.”