5-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman apologized to his daughter, Olympic gold medalist Trinity Rodman, after she criticized him for being absent a lot of her life on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast.
“He’s not a dad. Perhaps by blood, however nothing else,” she advised host Alex Cooper. “Listening to his voice is painful.”
Rodman responded with a public apology on Instagram shortly after the podcast episode was revealed.
“Sorry I wasn’t the Dad you needed me to be however both means I nonetheless tried and I nonetheless try to by no means will cease,” he wrote within the prolonged publish. “I’ll maintain attempting even while you’re being advised as an grownup not to answer my cellphone calls. I’m all the time right here and let you know on a regular basis – whether or not it’s your voice or voicemail – how proud I’m. I all the time had one want, and it was I want my children would name me and are available see me. Hopefully someday I can get that. I’m right here and I’m nonetheless attempting, choose up the cellphone, you have got my quantity. You see me calling, I’m nonetheless right here.”
Trinity additionally revealed that at one level, she was compelled to dwell in a automotive along with her mom due to monetary struggles after her dad and mom divorced in 2012. Regardless of his reported $27 million NBA profession earnings, she recalled, “We had (a Ford) Expedition and we form of lived in that for a bit bit… He’s having events 24/7, bringing random b*tches in, loves the highlight, loves the cameras. He’s a particularly egocentric human being.”
Nonetheless, she stated they briefly reconciled throughout her early profession with the Washington Spirit in 2021.
“When he confirmed up at my sport, I used to be, like, so mad,” she remembered. “I began crying on the sphere. So I’m attempting to play the soccer sport and I’m crying.”
Dennis has beforehand spoken about his struggles to interrupt out of a cycle of absenteeism as a consequence of his personal tough upbringing. “For some motive, it’s very exhausting for me to interrupt out of that cycle,” he advised ESPN in 2019. “I by no means had anybody to ever try this for me.”
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