Nick Cannon is addressing the viral reaction to comments his daughter Monroe Cannon made last year about her siblings.
During a recent interview with Shannon Sharpe, the father of 12 explained that Monroe’s November 2025 post was taken out of context after it spread across social media and blog sites.
At the time, Monroe shared a message online that read, “clearing something up guys! i only have ONE brother who is @moroccan.cannon i do have other half siblings from my dad but they are all many many years younger than me!”
According to Cannon, the post was meant to address teenagers online who were falsely claiming to be related to her and her twin brother, Moroccan Cannon.
“I mean, my daughter just recently went viral,” Cannon said. “It’s so funny because the world thought the conversation was about something that it wasn’t.”
“It was really about 14-year-olds talking,” Cannon continued. “There was like some, a couple kids online saying that they were my kid siblings. Yes. Like, you know, ‘Oh, that’s my sister, that’s my brother.’ So my daughter wanted to clear it up, right?”
Cannon said Monroe’s comments were later interpreted as her distancing herself from his younger children.
“But the world took it… all of them took it as if that she was saying all of my children are not her siblings and she only has one brother,” he explained. “So literally like the world jumped in on some teenage gossip conversation and tried to turn it into something else.”
The entertainer said the reaction upset Monroe, who later tried to clarify what she meant.
“And then that upset my daughter,” Cannon shared. “So she was like, ‘I didn’t mean that. I said my dad has other kids.’”
Cannon said he used the moment as a lesson about social media and the way posts can quickly spiral online.
“Like I was like, you don’t have to explain yourself to anybody,” he said. “I was like, but let this be a lesson and know that you got to be very careful what you say on social media. People will take something very small and blow it up into something that you don’t have control over anymore.”
He added that Monroe was apologetic to him and her siblings.
“And she learned the lesson,” Cannon added. “But I could see she was physically bothered by it because she had never gone viral like that before. And she was apologetic to me and to her other siblings and, you know, they don’t know what’s going on.”
