Nick Cannon Reveals How His Ex-Wife Mariah Carey Saved His Life
Nick Cannon has opened up about how his ex-wife, Mariah Carey, saved his life. The multihyphenate said that the “Emotions” singer was there for him after he passed out after a jog in an interview with The Diary of a CEO, which aired on Thursday (September 21).
Cannon noted that this occurred before he had a lupus diagnosis, so he wasn’t sure what was going on. However, when he was unconscious in the restroom, he realized something was wrong.
“Mariah came in and found me,” he said. “And they rushed me to the ER in Aspen… I didn’t think it was that bad because I had just got back from jogging in Aspen. So they’re like, ‘He probably has altitude sickness.’
“I was just dehydrated so that was the narrative we were going with. But the longer I was in the hospital [the doctors] were like, ‘Oh, maybe he has a kidney stone because there’s something going on back there.’ And I was like, ‘No, it wasn’t a kidney stone.’”
He continued: “But I think that’s what you do when you find a help-mate. When you find someone that you’re in matrimony with. I went hard for her, and I’d still go hard for her. I’d lay down my life for her, even today.”
During an interview with The Shade Room back in March, Nick Cannon revealed that Mariah Carey was also his “greatest love.”
The Wild ‘N Out host spoke fondly about his multiple baby mothers — with whom he’s fathered 12 children — but said he’s always considered Mariah Carey the true love of his life.
“Like the greatest? I mean, I always talk about that,” Cannon said of the Grammy-winning singer. “Then it goes viral, and our fans get mad at me. But I was 12 years old with Mariah Carey pictures on my wall, and that becomes my wife. And the fact that she’s the coolest person I ever met.”
He continued: “She’s just always happy, always doing for others. No matter what’s happening in life. I’m like, ‘Wow, a person can really operate like that and don’t allow negative energy into they space’ … When I found that out about how remarkable she was, that woman is not human. She’s a gift from God.”
