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 together with his masculinity on the time and sometimes questioned his id as he needed to settle with the stress that got here with getting married to somebody of Carey’s celeb standing.

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

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

Based on 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 questioned if all that he was as a person was being “Mariah’s man.”

“I did not really actually care what the world thought as a result of the notion, you recognize, that’s what it’s. Individuals are going to like you at some point, hate you the subsequent day,” Cannon defined. “I might care much less about that. … However going to myself with that stress of, ‘Who am I?'”

“I obtained married in my 20s, you recognize what I imply? To the most important star on the earth,” he continued.

“My trajectory was right here,” he mentioned, 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 together with his id and masculinity of their relationship as he was typically compelled to succumb to the truth that Carey would take the lead, particularly together with her famous person standing.

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

“I might lay up at night time pondering, 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 flawed with it.”

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

“I am carrying a handbag, the diaper bag and, you recognize, 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 imagine 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 approach 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 executed left and had like ten youngsters.”

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

“My daughter, she’s carrying make-up now. She does not put on it lots, fortunately, nevertheless it scared me,” he mentioned 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 verify 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 stunning 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 resulting from a mind tumor.