Nick Cannon is singing his praises for his former wife, Mariah Carey.
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In a new interview with ‘The Pivot Podcast’ Cannon shared that when he was first going through health struggles with lupus in 2012, Carey was “superwoman” for holding their family together.
“It was amazing, man. I think that was probably some of our closest times, too. That was 2012, and really, our kids weren’t even a year [old] yet. So I’m watching her be mom for the first time and doing a phenomenal job. She’s already nurturing them and then she has to turn around and nurture me in probably the most confusing scariest time of my life. Because I’m diagnosed with something that they’re telling me could be terminally ill,” he said.
“I’m having pulmonary embolisms and getting rushed back and forth to the hospital, spending time in the hospital a month at a time–I’m like, I’m about to check out and I’m a new dad. Mariah still gotta be Mariah,” he continued.
“”I’m like, ‘Once I get out of this bed, once I get back to normal, once I get healthy again, I’m about to live life like I’ve never lived it before,’ where before that I was probably a little bit more complacent and just enjoying, like, Oh my God, I’m a dad. I’m in my dream relationship. I don’t ever have to work again,'” he furthered.
However, Cannon says his drive is also partially what led to their relationship ending.
“I was always running and always going but probably not paying attention to the true things and having that empathy and compassion in those moments,” Cannon reflected. “And so in hindsight, I was like, ‘Ooh, that’s where it started,'” he shared.
The two were married for eight years and share a set of twins, Moroccan and Monroe.