Nick Cannon recently opened up about his journey as a father.
During a recent interview, the ‘Wild N’ Out’ creator said the his unorthodox lifestyle was due to trauma.
“It wasn’t like I was acting out. It was more of being careless, being frivolous with my process because I could do it. Because I had the money [and] because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move,” he said. “Then, obviously, life happens as well. So it wasn’t like ‘Oh, I’m gonna go have 12 kids.’ It was more about like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna just live life and have fun and whatever happens happens. I can handle it.’”
“Being almost 45 now, I could sit back and like, yeah, if I would have thought the process through a little bit more and took time to actually do the inner work,” he continued. “Things might have been a little different in certain scenarios.”
Cannon also stated that he and his wife conceived each of their children in love.
“I don’t know,” Cannon said. “Because I’ve always said this, every child that I had was made out of love and there were strong relationships.”
“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 and for whatever reason I thought that was the answer a lot of times, like ‘Oh, I’m gonna figure it out over here,’ ” he said. “Now, you’re leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from its origin.”
During an with interview with PEOPLE in March, Cannon said that he’s “pressing hold” on having more children.
I’m going to press hold on this 12 for right now,” Cannon said. “But. I was just speaking of three years from now [or] five years from now, who knows? I’m not against it.”