Cannon and Tiesi’s news was made public over the weekend when photos from their baby shower were shared online and the “Masked Singer” host — who is also father to 10-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe, 4-year-old son Golden, 13-month-old daughter Powerful Queen, and 7-month-old twins Zion and Zillion from previous relationships — admitted they wanted to “hold off” making an announcement to be “respectful” around Zen’s death.
On the Jan. 31 episode of “The Nick Cannon Show,” the host said, “So even going through all of that, this was always in the back of my mind, like, ‘What is the right time? How do I share this?'”
“No one, we didn’t expect Zen to pass away … All of the news was so unexpected.”
“I wanted to definitely respect the grieving process with Alyssa, and Bre was respectful enough — She held off making our announcements and speaking on social media. She’s a very, you know, in the public eye type of person, but keeps her stuff private as well. And it was just one of those things like, you know, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what to say when I was dealing with Zen or to hold off.”
“Even right now, that it came out yesterday, that wasn’t planned to talk about it. We wanted to, you know, hold on as long as we can, but it happened.”
