Nick Cannon admitted there was trouble in paradise after a group chat with the six mothers of his 12 kids went totally left.
Cannon described the not-too-surprising development on the “On Par With Maury Povich” podcast on Nov. 9 after host Maury Povich asked if adding all the women to one group chat to coordinate Thanksgiving was “on par or off the rails.”
The “Wild ’n Out” star immediately began shaking his head, telling Povich without hesitation that he had tried it, but things indeed went “off the rails.”
Cannon joked that the text thread with his pop icon ex-wife Mariah Carey and his children’s other mothers —LaNisha Cole, Brittany Bell, Abby De La Rosa, Alyssa Scott and Bre Tiesi — was “too wild for TV.”
Povich asked whether all the women get along. Cannon responded with a telling laugh before describing their interactions as “civil.”
“Everybody has their own life, but now putting them all on a group chat together? Not the best idea,” he admitted.
Povich then asked, “Do any of them complain to you that you spend more time with some than another?”
“It sounds like you’ve seen my docuseries already,” Cannon quipped, referencing the untitled Netflix series that will follow his life with all his MOMCs (Cannon’s abbreviation for “mothers of my children”) and is set to premiere in the winter.
Asked about jealousy among his partners in a September interview with Us Weekly, Cannon said he wouldn’t use that word, but added: “As the famous quote goes, ‘You can’t please all the people all the time.’”
“I’m learning that balance,” he explained. “I have 12 kids — everybody’s not going to be happy with me, and I’m pretty sure we’ll hear everything they have to say when they become adults. But at this point, I’m doing the best I can, and everybody has an individual connection with Dad.”
Cannon shares twins Moroccan and Monroe with Carey; kids Golden, Powerful and Rise with Bell; twins Zion and Zillion and daughter Beautiful with De La Rosa; son Legendary with Tiesi; and daughter Onyx with Cole.
The “Drumline” star also shares daughter Halo and son Zen, who died from a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer in 2021, with Scott.
Cannon told Us Weekly in September that his extensive family must “operate as a unit.”
“But it’s definitely compartmentalized,” he explained. “Every mother parents differently. I’m non-confrontational, which isn’t always a good thing. I’m learning. I don’t take anything seriously, so I’m either cracking a joke or just being like, ‘It is what it is.’ It allows me to keep the stress down.”