Nick Cannon is candid about how he raises his children. On a recent episode of “The Jason Lee Podcast,” the 12-year-old father revealed that he spends more time with his 8-month-old daughter, Onyx, than with the rest of his children. That’s partly thanks to the co-parenting arrangement he has with Onyx’s mother, LaNisha Cole.
Onyx is “probably the kid I spend the most time with,” Cannon revealed on the podcast. He continued: “I’m with her at least three times a week, all day. But I don’t take that out of the media, social networks, [because] it’s not for them. But you know, LaNisha [Cole] and I have a deep understanding and our co-parenting is very solid.”
Baby Onyx is the only child the “The Masked Singer” host shares with Cole. He’s also the father of Mariah Carey’s 12-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe; Golden is 6 years old, Powerful is 2 years old and Rise is 7 months old, all of whom he shares with Brittany Bell; The 9-month-old legend with “Semi-sunset” star Bre Tiesi; nearly 2-year-old twins Zion and Zillion and 5-month-old daughter Beautiful with Abby De La Rosa; and 5-month-old daughters Halo and Zen, who died of brain cancer at 5 months old, with Alyssa Scott.
“I have an incubator in my office,” says Cannon. “I’m really going to leave here to make sure I can spend the most time with her – not against all my other kids because all my other kids, they’re going. school, they are babies, just like Onyx, but the fact is that I appreciate that LaNisha gives me enough respect to allow me to have [Onyx]actually, equal amount of time like [she] do.”
The 42-year-old has previously spoken about how difficult it is to spend time with all of his children. “As a father of many children, my biggest guilt has always been not spending enough time with all of my children,” he said in an episode of Paramount+’s “The Checkup With Dr. Agus” in December 2022. “One, because I work constantly, and two because I’m too fragile.”
