Nick Cannon Says He Has 'Heavy Guilt' for Not Spending Enough Time with Late Son Zen
17.02.2022 - 06:23
/ justjared.com
Nick Cannon is opening up about life after the death of his youngest son, Zen.
Baby Zen – who the 41-year-old talk show host shared with Alyssa Scott – was born in June 2021 and died five months later in December after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.
On the latest episode of his daytime talk show, The Nick Cannon Show, on Wednesday (February 16), Nick opened up about going to therapy to deal with his “heavy guilt.”
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“I am a work in progress and therapy has been an important tool in helping learn and grow and navigate through my unconventional personal life,” Nick said on the show, before sharing a clip from his therapy session with Dr. Laura Berman.
“One thing that keeps me up at night, there’s this heavy, heavy guilt with the fact that I didn’t get to spend time like I really wanted to with Zen,” Nick shared with the therapist. “That I have other children even in a similar age that I was like, ‘OK, I’m guilty that I’m not there every day. I’m guilty that the mothers of my children yearn for more and I can only give so much.’”
“I walk around with a backpack full of guilt,” he continued. “But at least I know the harder that I work, then it makes the guilt easier to deal with.”
Along with Zen, Nick shares 10-year-old twins – son Moroccan and daughter Monroe – with ex-wife Mariah Carey, 4-year-old son Golden and 13-month-old daughter Powerful Queen with Brittany Bell, and 7-month-old twin boys – Zion and Zillion – with Abby De La Rosa. He also just announced he’s expecting his eighth child, a boy, with Brie Tiesi.
Later in his therapy session, Nick talked about his relationships with the five mothers of his children, adding that he and Mariah “co-parent very well.
“She and I, we’re really