During a recent interview Cam Newton goes into detail on why he decided to not marry the mother of his 4 children. When he was asked, he responded: “That’s a great question…The thing is that person that I was while we were having children together, I couldn’t be the best husband,” he said. “I wasn’t prepared to be a husband then.” The couple started dating back in 2013. They decided to part ways in early 2020. Cam Newton says that she was adamant on getting married. As he put it, “the hourglass was shrinking” for his children’s mother . But he had seen successful marriages and wasn’t ready to commit in that way. “We were both young. There was nothing, and still nothing I would never do for her. But at the same time, the person that she was when I met her, it wasn’t the person she was when I left her,” he also said. “When I met Kia, and I say this protecting her, she wasn’t the one to be like, ‘I want to be married.’ I was more so the person, my parents been together 36 years. I know what marriage looks like: the ups, the downs, the trials, the tribulations.” “I seen Kia really evolving into a woman where her standards were, ‘I ain’t just no baby mama,'” he said. “And when she kept putting pressure on me I was like, ‘I don’t know if this is what I really want.'” He also admitted that while being a football player, he just couldn’t deny the advances of other women. “I was in temptation island. A football player, young, no is not even in my vocabulary,” he said. “I just found myself in this

downward spiral. Did she deserve better? I would humbly say yes. She did.” “I was falling deeper into my own selfishness and realizing I gotta be better,” he continued. “‘I hope you have the patience,’ which she did. And she was around me through a lot of success, a lot of downfalls and I respect her for that to this day, but it never led to the ultimate, which was a ring.” He also stated, “To me, it’s not even an apology that’s needed. We just grew apart.” The two continue to be on good terms. Newton says that she is an awesome mother. He hopes that the person that she plans to get serious with, understands his role in both his children’s life and his children’s mother life. “The person that comes into her life and says, ‘I will accept you for everything, for kids and all,’ that day is going to come. I would just hope that they would respect that I’m a hands-on dad first. So you gon’ have to see me at some point,” he said. “I still hold some type of [weight] for her to be able to discern, I believe, just like she has the right to discern the day when I say, ‘I’m taking somebody serious and I want them to meet our children.’ She still has the right to say, ‘oh, uh uh. I don’t want her around our kids.’ I would respect that.” Newton and his ex were together for around seven years. She had a daughter from a previous relationship. Cam also had a child. They had four children together. He also claims the previous children of his ex’s. So in total he has 7 children.