Nick Cannon — who has 11 children with six ladies — shut down critics who urged he wasn’t a hands-on dad.

“I’ve been villainized,” Cannon instructed the Los Angeles Occasions Sunday.

“I hear on a regular basis: ‘You’ll be able to’t be current for all these kids.’ So due to this fact I get this ‘deadbeat dad’ title,” he went on.

“It’s not about what I do for you or what I say to you, it’s about how you’re feeling once I’m with you. In the event you really feel beloved if you see your dad, that’s what’s gonna resonate.”

The newly-minted “Beat Shazam” host, 42, attributed his huge brood of kids to his people-pleasing tendencies

“Lots of them are in the identical age group,” he mentioned of his numerous companions, noting that lots of them expressed nervousness about their organic clocks throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

“And I simply wished to provide them what they desired. I saved saying, ‘I can deal with it.’”

The “Masked Singer” host, who revealed he makes $100 million yearly, defined that each one of his companions had been conscious he didn’t desire a conventional relationship earlier than they welcomed kids collectively.

“[As a man] who’s made his bones, you’re not trying to give half of what you constructed to somebody you don’t even know,” he mentioned, noting he would fairly have an trustworthy relationship than be with “somebody who’s telling them they’re the one one however nonetheless f—okay the neighbor.”

Nevertheless, Cannon has bought houses for the entire ladies he shares children with, and mentioned “there’s nothing that they may ask [him] for” that he would say no to.

He additionally mentioned he helps all of his child mamas’ private choices. Whereas he believes in vaccinations for kids, a few of his feminine companions don’t — “and I associate with it,” he defined.

“This mother could love Ms. Rachel [videos], and this mother could love ‘Your Child Can Learn.’ I do know that each mom is making choices based mostly off of affection and what they consider is greatest for the kid.”

Elsewhere within the interview, the “Wild ’n Out” host likened his relationship with ex-wife Mariah Carey to “[Donald] Trump and [Vladimir] Putin.”

“Think about if, like, Trump and Putin needed to reside in the identical home,” he mentioned of his dynamic with the pop diva throughout their eight-year marriage.

“It wasn’t even about her and I — we’ve at all times been good. It was extra about us understanding that as an alternative of constructing it about our relationship and what I need or what you need, we should always simply do what’s greatest for the kids.”

Cannon and Carey share 12-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe.

Cannon can also be a dad to sons Golden, 6, and Rise, 7 months, and daughter Highly effective, 2, with Brittany Bell, in addition to 1-year-old twins Zion and Zillion, together with daughter Lovely, 5 months, with Abby De La Rosa.

Moreover, he’s the daddy of son Legendary, 10 months, and daughter Onyx, 7 months, with Bre Tiesi and LaNisha Cole, respectively.

He most just lately welcomed daughter Halo, 4 months, with Alyssa Scott. Tragically, their son, Zen, died in December 2021 when he was simply 5 months outdated.