'I’m just spread thin': Nick Cannon feels 'guilty' about not spending more time with his 11 children
CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA: Nick Cannon acknowledged that he feels "guilt" about not having enough time to spend with his sizable family. The father-of-many, 42, is having a hard time juggling his career and his family life because he presently has 11 children and a 12th is on the way. “Being a father of multiple kids, it’s always the biggest guilt on me is that I don’t get to spend enough time with all my children,” Cannon said during an episode of Paramount+’s 'The Checkup with Dr David Agus'. He continued, “One ’cause I’m constantly working and two because I’m just spread thin."
The 'Masked Singer' host shares 11-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan with ex-wife Mariah Carey, 5-year-old Golden Sagon, 2-year-old Powerful Queen and 3-month-old Rise Messiah with ex-girlfriend Brittany Bell, 18-month-old twins Zion and Zillion and one-month-old Beautiful Zeppelin with ex-partner Abby de la Rosa, five-month-old Legendary Love with Bre Tiesi, three-month-old Onyx Ice with Lanisha Cole, and late son Zen and baby-to-be with Alyssa Scott, per reported by MNS.
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Zen Scott, died from brain cancer when he was only 5 months old. Zen's "quality of life" was something Nick and Scott decided to put first, he recently said, explaining why they decided against giving his baby chemotherapy, per reports from Page Six.
MEAWW previously reported Nick Cannon has opened up about why he and Alyssa Scott didn't want their late son Zen to endure chemotherapy as he was battling serious brain cancer. Cannon discussed his son's cancer diagnosis with Dr David Agus on 'The Check Up', explaining that when he asked the physicians about the best treatment choices for his son's situation, they told him that chemotherapy is less likely to extend his son's life due to the tumor's placement. On December 5, 2021, the actor lost his 5-month-old son to brain cancer.
“Seeing your son hooked up to all of those machines — and he had to go for a shunt two or three times, and that was heartbreaking every time — even in that short amount of time, I couldn’t imagine him having to go through chemo,” Cannon added. Given the short amount of time he had left, Cannon said he wanted to give Zen the "greatest existence" he could while prioritizing his "quality of life."
“I knew how as a full grown man, that process,” Cannon said, referring to using chemo for his lupus. “My hair was falling out. I wouldn’t even call it pain; it just sucked everything out of you. I couldn’t imagine that on a newborn and what that would do."