“At one point, I was like, ‘I’ma get Mariah Carey,'” Cannon, 37, remembered. “It turned from my celebrity crush to like, ‘Nah, she’s about to be my girlfriend.’ People were like, ‘You’re bugging. There’s no way you can get Mariah Carey.’ I was like, ‘Watch, I’m telling you.'”
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That conversation with Carey, whowelcomed the former couple’s7-year-old twinsMoroccan and Monroein 2011, gave Cannon newfound hope. “And from that day I knew that she knew,” he said. “So I doubled down … and people would just laugh it off until she wanted to do a video and she wanted me to star in a video [for ‘Touch My Body’].”
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This time, it was Cannon’s turn to float off. “I was like, ‘I ain’t about to be in that video. People already think I’m corny enough!'” Cannon said. “So I told Mariah ‘no.’ And people don’t tell Mariah ‘no.'”
Cannon’s rejection worked to his advantage. “I was like, ‘Yo, you got another one for me or something like that, we can get down. I promise you.’ And she called me and she was like, ‘Not only do I have another video for you to be in and to be my love interest for, but I want you to direct it.'”
He concluded, “Bam, I’m in there!”
In April, Cannon had nothing but kinds words for Carey after sherevealed her struggle with bipolar disorder.
“I’m in awe of her strength,” hetold PEOPLE Now. “Every family has to deal with something, but through love and understanding is how anyone gets through any adversity. And that’s what we’ve always been about.”
source: people.com
