Nick Cannon clears the air about daughter Monroe’s comment about having “one brother.”
“It’s so funny because the world thought it was about a conversation it wasn’t,” Cannon, 45, told the host. Shannon Sharpe during a recent appearance on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast. “It was definitely talking about 14-year-olds.”
Cannon, who shares twins Monroe and Moroccan, now 15, with his ex-wife Mariah Careyhe was referring to his daughter’s words about her siblings in November 2025.
“I’m clearing something guys, I only have ONE brother @moroccan.cannon,” Monroe wrote on her Instagram Story. “I have other siblings from my father but they are all many years younger than me!”
Monroe and Moroccan are the only children Cannon and Carey share. However, Cannon is also father to 10 additional children, including Golden, 9, Powerful Queen, 5, and Rise Messiah, 3. Brittany Belltwins Zion and Zillion, 4, and Beautiful Zeppelin, 3, with Abby De La RosaLegend, 3, with Bre TiesiOnyx, 3, with This is Nisha Coleand Halo, 3, with Alyssa Scott. Cannon and Scott also shared a son, Zen, who died in 2021 at age 5 following a battle with brain cancer.
Cannon explained to Sharpe that Monroe said she only had one sibling who was close to her in age.
“So my daughter wanted to fix it, to be like, ‘I only have one brother,’ like at her age,” he said.
Cannon shared that Monroe was “hurt” that the internet mishandled her message.
“The world intervened in some youth conversation and tried to make it something else,” he said. Then that upset my daughter, so she said, ‘I didn’t mean that, I meant that my father has other children.’
While comforting her daughter, she The Hidden Artist The manager gave him advice about posting on social media.
“I was like, ‘Monroe, you don’t have to explain yourself to anybody,'” he recalled. “‘But don’t let this be a lesson that you have to be very careful what you say on social media. People will take something very small and blow it up into something you can no longer control.’
Breeding integration! Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have been raising their twins, Moroccan and Monroe, since their split in 2014. The “We Belong Together” singer gave birth to their exes’ young children in April 2011, six months after Carey confirmed she was pregnant. “Yes, we are pregnant. It’s true,” said the New York native […]
Earlier this month, Cannon admitted that he is “protective” of Monroe as she reaches the age where she wants to start dating.
“I am very protective of my daughter because there is [are] there are things that I have to protect my daughter from,” she said during an appearance on the “TMZ Podcast” in May. “As we know, there are certain types of people that you want to keep your daughter away from.”
Cannon acknowledged the “double standard” he has made since allowing the Moroccan until now.
“First of all, it’s a double standard,” he shared. “And I know that I get into a lot of trouble because I talk about things in my chest. But there is a difference when you raise a son and you raise a daughter.”
