He famously has 12 kids with six totally different ladies, so it’s honest to marvel how a lot Nick Cannon pays in youngster assist—and if he may even afford to take action.
The exceptionally fertile TV host-turned-professional child daddy was born Nicholas Scott Cannon on October 8, 1980, in San Diego, California. His huge break got here in 1999 when he grew to become a forged member of Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy present, All That, by which he starred from 1998 to 2000. After All That, Cannon went on to create, star in and govt produce his personal sketch comedy and improv sport present, Wild ‘N Out, on MTV. The present debuted in 2005 and has run for greater than 18 seasons. Cannon’s internet hosting jobs continued with reveals just like the Nick Cannon Present, Lip Sync Battle, America’s Obtained Expertise and The Masked Singer.
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How a lot does Nick Cannon pay in youngster assist?
In an interview with The Neighborhood Speak in November 2022, when he had 11 kids, Cannon revealed that he pays greater than $3 million annually in youngster assist for his burgeoning brood. “I positively spend much more than [$3 million] on my kids yearly,” he stated. “I don’t plan to ever need to take part within the governmental system of kid.”
However in an interview with The Jason Lee podcast in an episode launched on Could 8, 2023, Cannon stated the six ladies he has kids with can have “no matter they need, no matter they ask for.” He defined, “My cash is that they cash, they cash is my cash. … My account is their account, and there’s so much in there, so we ain’t gon’ run out [sic].” He continued: “I consider true foreign money is your power,” he stated. “I want I may make a contract [that says], ‘You can not take this a lot of my power while you depart.’ … Cash comes and goes. I all the time inform individuals, ‘Cash don’t make you content. Comfortable makes you cash.’ So I’m all the time going to be good, and each greenback that I make is for my household.”
The episode was recorded earlier than Bre Tiesi, who debuted on Promoting Sundown season six and with whom Cannon shares his eighth youngster, defined that the courts may get Cannon off the hook solely for youngster assist funds. Her co-star Amanza Smith requested Tiesi if it’s true that somebody doesn’t need to pay youngster assist after having 10 kids, to which Tiesi responded: “That’s true. … The way in which it really works is like, after 10, the courtroom can mainly say he can’t afford to pay youngster assist. Or as a result of he’s who he’s, they may say, ‘We all know you possibly can afford X quantity for every family.’”
Tiesi insisted she doesn’t want Cannon’s cash to assist her or their youngster, nevertheless, and that Cannon is greater than beneficiant along with his sharing his estimated $20 million internet value. “I deal with myself,” she stated. “If my son wants one thing, or we do, I ask, that’s all I’ve to do. I do know he’s a great dad and Nick isn’t my sugar daddy, Nick isn’t the explanation I’m the place I’m at.” She continued in a confessional interview: “I positively try to be the most effective at every little thing, to the purpose the place I drive myself insane, however I’ve labored my ass off to be the place I’m at,” she added. “I did this all myself, and naturally, my son is much more of a motivation. I wish to give him every little thing from me. Not from my accomplice.”
However Tiesi and Cannon clearly share a humorousness over how a lot protection their financials are receiving within the press. Earlier in Could, Tiesi took to Instagram to point out off a glowing new Lamborghini Cannon had gifted her. “I nonetheless can’t consider what I woke as much as!!! @nickcannon I’ve no phrases. I needed to simply sit right here and stare at it, and cry with ledgy. You go above and past! We love you a lot!!! If I didn’t already really feel like a foul bitch, I positively do now!” she wrote within the Instagram put up. In a responding Instagram story, “Nope! The Authorities don’t have to inform us to pay Baby Help… WE PAY LAMBO SUPPORT !!” Cannon wrote. “My Cash is Their Cash! Simply settle for it, We totally different over right here !! LOL.”
Cannon additionally informed Males’s Well being in June 2022 that he believes he’s extra “engaged” in all of his kids’s lives than the “common” mother or father is with their youngsters. “Opposite to well-liked perception, I’m in all probability engaged all through my kids’s day, extra typically than the typical grownup will be,” he stated. “If I’m not bodily in the identical metropolis with my youngsters, I’m speaking to them earlier than they go to highschool by way of FaceTime and stuff. After which when I’m [in the same city, I’m] driving my youngsters to highschool, like, ensuring I decide ’em up.” He continued, “I’ve seen the place individuals consider a conventional family works, and [yet] there’s plenty of toxicity in that setting. It’s not about what society deems is true. It’s like, what makes it best for you? What brings your happiness? What permits you to have pleasure and the way you outline household? All of us outline household in so many various methods.”
