Nick Cannon is laughing off the thought of a attainable reconciliation with ex-wife Mariah Carey — at the very least on her finish.
Whereas attending the Fox Fall Press Day on Thursday, Sept. 5, in Los Angeles, the actor and TV persona addressed latest feedback he made that he would “completely” get again along with the “Fantasy” singer, 55.
“Yeah, she don’t need me,” Cannon, 43, tells PEOPLE. “She’s moved on from my loopy antics.”
In August, Cannon revealed to E! News that he’s hopeful he and Carey — who have been married for six years earlier than splitting in 2014 — may have a second shot at love.
“We belong collectively,” he informed the outlet, including that he would “completely” get again along with the five-time Grammy winner and that it might “be silly if [he] didn’t.”
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Since going their separate methods, Cannon and Carey have continued to lift their twins — Moroccan and Monroe, born in 2011 — collectively. The Masked Singer host additionally went on to welcome 10 extra children with 5 different companions.
Cannon notes that he and the ladies are doing effectively at co-parenting: “Yeah, I imply, to their credit score, what I imply? Coping with me should be insanity,” he says on the Fox occasion.
He says the key to creating his unconventional household dynamics work is “simply placing the children first.”
“On the finish of the day, in case you put the children first and take away ego, you are able to do something,” he tells PEOPLE, sharing that he and his massive brood simply loved “an awesome summer season” collectively.
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“We frolicked in Malibu, traveled and went to the seashore so much,” remembers Cannon, who is about to star in season 2 of the Fox crime drama Accused. “So I believe all the children actually loved themselves.”
Now, his household is leaping into the back-to-school season, which he says brings again “enjoyable” reminiscences from his personal childhood. “It jogs my memory of once I was in class, college searching for garments, getting the children excited,” he explains, earlier than admitting that not all of his children are as enthused about returning to the classroom. “I’ve a 7-year-old in fourth grade [son Golden Sagon], and he is simply so good that even college is boring to him.”
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Cannon continues, “So it is like getting him re-engaged and excited as a result of he had a lot enjoyable in the course of the summer season. So, all proper, ‘We are able to nonetheless have simply as a lot enjoyable in the course of the college 12 months,’ however it’s type of simply holding the joy.”
As for a way he feels about now being a dad to youngsters — Moroccan and Monroe turned 13 in April — he says it is “very scary.”
“Youngsters are scary. I really feel like I am nonetheless a teen,” Cannon admits. “To see my daughter actually changing into a younger girl earlier than my eyes, it is rather scary.”
