Nick Cannon has confirmed he and Mariah Carey “absolutely” signed a prenup before their 2008 wedding. He said it during a November 9 appearance on the On Par with Maury Povich podcast, according to E! Online, ten years after the pair finalized their divorce.
Nick Cannon Confirms Prenup Details in Podcast Interview
Cannon did not sound like a man who resented the paperwork.
He framed it as the natural move for someone of Carey’s stature, describing her entity and “her global conglomerate” as making sure she was protected.
He told Povich he had no problem with it whatsoever. Then he went further. Looking back, Cannon said he thinks the agreement protected both of them, not only her.
Prenups usually get talked about as a sign of distrust, one partner guarding against the other. Cannon described something closer to the opposite.
The terms were settled before the wedding, so there was less left to fight over when the marriage ended.
The Divorce Process Was ‘Easy’ for Cannon
Cannon and Carey split in 2014. The divorce was not finalized until 2016, two years later. Even so, Cannon told the podcast the process felt easy.
Easy is relative. In the same conversation, he said “unmarrying” has natures that are not good, and that nobody realizes how long it takes or how draining it is. That experience is why the 46-year-old says he does not see himself ever getting remarried.
Two years is a long time to spend formally ending something that had already ended. A prenup can settle the money in advance. It cannot speed up the calendar.
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Friendship with Carey Remains Strong Post-Divorce
Cannon said the divorce “didn’t affect” his friendship with Carey. He was candid that it could have. He described seeing how things could have turned really bad if they had not stepped in and engaged as a family.
Moroccan and Monroe, the 15-year-old twins Cannon shares with Mariah Carey, kept things steady. Cannon said he and Carey “just kind of made it about the kids.”
He also pointed to a rule he says both of them kept. He has never said a bad thing about her publicly, and she has never said one about him.
“We handled it out of love,” he told Povich.
Plenty of exes claim the high road. Cannon’s version comes with a record behind it, ten years of not trading shots in interviews. He called their situation an exception when it comes to divorce, and he is probably right about that.
Cannon Quips About Future Romance with Carey
Nick Cannon has hinted before that he would welcome a second chance. “We belong together,” he told E! News in 2024, adding he would “be stupid” not to get back together with Carey.
He also gave the reason it has not happened, in four words: “She don’t want me.”
Cannon is currently in a non-monogamous relationship with Bre Tiesi and Abby De La Rosa, and he is dad to 10 more children with five different women. For now, the prenup stands as the one part of their marriage both seemed to get right from the start.
