Nick Cannon Clarifies Daughter’s Comment About Having Only One Sibling

“So my daughter wanted to clear it up,” he explained, “and be like, ‘I only have one brother,’ like literally in her age group.”

While Monroe and Moroccan are the only children from Nick’s marriage to Mariah, he is also dad to 10 other kids, including Golden “Sagon,” 9, Powerful Queen, 5, and Rise Messiah, 3, with Brittany Bell;twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, 4, and Beautiful Zeppelin, 3, with Abby De La Rosa; Legendary Love, 3, with Bre Tiesi; Onyx Ice, 3, with LaNisha Cole; and Halo Marie, 3, with Alyssa Scott. He and Alyssa also shared son Zen, who died in 2021 at 5 months old from brain cancer.

In reality, Monroe and Moroccan have a close relationship with their younger sibs, spending quality time with some of them over the holidays. As such, Monroe was understandably upset when her remarks went viral. 

“The world jumped in on some teenage gossip conversation and tried to turn it into something else,” Nick continued on Club Shay Shay. “And then that upset my daughter. So she was like, ‘I didn’t mean that. I said my dad has other kids.’”

Thankfully, the former America’s Got Talent host knows a thing or two about navigating life in the spotlight, and he imparted some social media wisdom onto his daughter. 

“I was like, ‘Monroe, you don’t have to explain yourself to anybody,’” he concluded. “‘But let this be a lesson that you got to be very careful what you say on social media. People will take something very small and blow it up into something that you don’t have control over anymore.’”

For a closer look at Nick’s sprawling family tree, read on.