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Though Cannon professed that all of his relationships were loving, nurturing, and open, and that all of his children were made from love, some people still raised their eyebrows. In 2022, Cannon was openly dating De La Rosa, Scott, and also Brittany Bell, Bre Tiesi, and LaNisha Cole, while coparenting with ex-wife Mariah Carey.
While appearing on the Breakfast Club podcast, Cannon opened up about being in therapy, being diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, not initially responding well to his breakup with Mariah Carey, and how having 12 children may have been a response to trauma, rather than a mindful decision.
Cannon now has healthy coparenting relationships with all six moms, but he's discovered through therapy that while he wouldn't change his relationships, he might have been more mindful about preparing for children and the mindset he had going into fatherhood.
Cannon reflected:
"A lot of it, if we're being completely honest, a lot of it is the trauma that I was experiencing of not knowing how to handle divorce. You know what I mean? And me acting out because I'm like, 'Oh, I'm the man now!'"
"Instead of healing and doing what I should have actually did, I just jumped out there, like distractions from the actual work that I probably should have done."
"For a long time, I was like, 'Look, I just got to keep making money. I got to stay hot. I got to stay funny. Everything else will figure itself out.' And I just didn't do the work. So then I looked up, you know, 12 kids later."
While he wouldn't change his kids, he thought receiving therapy sooner might have helped him plan better.
"I'm like, 'Wow, I could have done things very differently. But I stand firm on all of my decisions, because I love all my kids, I love my family infrastructure. But I know it all started from a place of pain and not really healing properly."
"It wasn't like I was acting out. It was more of being careless, being frivolous with my process because I could do it, because I had the money, because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move."
"I think I would have thought the process through a little bit more and took time to actually do the inner work, things might have been a little different in certain scenarios."
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Some viewers found this to be a great example of preaching to the choir.
Child after child, people have openly questioned over the years if Nick Cannon was being mindful in his relationships and his fatherhood, and whether parenting so many children and navigating so many relationships at once was his way of avoiding something else. Hearing him admit it on the podcast was validation.
Not to mention the fact that the last time Cannon appeared on the podcast, co-host Jess Hilarious brought this exact subject up and suggested that being attracted to parenting so many children might be a response to trauma, and not only did Cannon deny her theory, but she was openly criticized online for misreading the situation, being hateful, and overstepping.
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Everyone's journey is different, and that includes our trauma and how we react to it, and our life choices. Though a lot of people on the outside looking in thought they could see what was happening, it was important for Cannon to go through this process and realize it for himself.
While he might not regret anything from his past, knowing what he knows now will help him to make more informed and mindful decisions in the future.
“It’s an honour to meet you, Mr. X.”
“You’re alright for a white boy Charlie.”
Pavlou later added this embarrassing update after initially assuming Malcolm X was a Christian:
"I just discovered Malcolm X was a member of the Nation of Islam rather than a Christian. Will keep this in mind in future."
You can see his posts and the image below.
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Malcolm X was one of the more prominent activists during the civil rights movement until his 1965 assassination. He believed firmly in Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the African American community, ideas he promoted in his speeches and his posthumously published autobiography.
Though Malcolm X was initially critical of the civil rights approach advanced by the late Martin Luther King Jr.—who was assassinated himself—he would not have aligned himself with Kirk, a virulent white supremacist.
Kirk once said that the U.S. "made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s," contending that the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed job discrimination and racial segregation in public places, schools and federally assisted programs, “created a beast” by prioritizing equality of outcomes over equality of opportunity, actions he claimed contributed to higher crime rates.
Notably, Malcolm X was also a devout Muslim whereas Kirk thoroughly supported the implementation of a Christian theocracy as outlined in Project 2025.
In fact, Kirk, months before his murder, linked New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to the September 11 terror attacks, saying that "America’s largest city was attacked by radical Islam 24 years ago, and now a similar form of that pernicious force is poised to capture city hall."
In short, Malcolm X believed Blacks in the U.S. would never be treated fairly because of people like Kirk.
The AI-generated image was thoroughly bizarre—and the mockery was swift.
It's abundantly clear that thinking before tweeting isn't in the MAGA playbook.
