Watch: Nick Cannon Sets the Record Straight on Where He Stands With Mariah Carey 10 Years After Divorce
Boy, if you wanna know whether Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey had a prenup—he’ll tell you.
Ten years after the former couple—who share 15-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe—finalized their divorce, the former America’s Got Talent host confirmed they “absolutely” signed a prenuptial agreement before tying the knot in 2008.
“Mariah Carey, her entity, her global conglomerate, is gonna make sure she is protected,” Cannon explained during a Nov. 9 appearance on the On Par with Maury Povich podcast. “Had no problem with it whatsoever. And when it was all said and done, I think it protected both of us.”
Although their divorce wasn’t finalized for two years following their 2014 breakup, the 46-year-old—dad to 10 additional children with five different women—said the process felt “easy.”
Nevertheless, it’s not a process Cannon sees himself going through again, as he doesn’t see himself ever getting remarried.
“I think because of some of the natures of, like, unmarrying are not good,” he continued. “And it’s just the process—you don’t realize it takes so long and how draining it is.”
And while divorce “didn’t affect” his friendship with Carey, he saw how divorce creates pressure points in relationships.
“It really could have affected how we handled one another as friends,” he admitted. “I saw the traps of how this could have turned really bad if we didn’t step in and really engage as a family.”
For Cannon, he considered the friendliness that exists between he and Carey an exception when it comes to divorce.
“We handled it so well,” he added. “We handled it out of love. Never heard me say a bad thing about her. Never heard her say a bad thing about me. And we just kind of made it about the kids.”
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Meanwhile, Cannon—who is currently in a non-monogamous relationship with Bre Tiesi and Abby De La Rosa—previously went so far to admit that he and Carey might have another shot at romance in the future.
“We belong together,” he quipped to E! News in 2024, going on to say that he would “be stupid” not to get back together with Carey.
As for why the fantasy hasn’t turned into reality? Cannon acknowledged, “She don’t want me.”
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