Nick Cannon's Dad Lashes Out At Mariah Carey Nuptials To Billionaire Packer

Nick Cannon's father has slammed Mariah Carey, claiming she never wanted to save the former couple's marriage and suspects she was having an affair with current fiancé James Packer.

TV evangelist James Cannon says that the timing of the hit singer's wedding announcement at the start of the year is 'suspicious' and says that if his own son had done the same he'd be treated like 'a gigolo'.

Instead, he points the finger firmly at Mariah and says Nick was desperate to save the marriage, and wanted to go for counseling rather than end it so quickly.

Mariah and Nick, who have four-year-old twins, son Moroccan and daughter Monroe, were married for six years until they separated two years ago.

Since then, Nick hasn't publicly dated, whereas Mariah was quick to move on with Australian billionaire tycoon Packer, whom she's engaged to marry in early 2017.

On Monday Cannon spoke openly about the former couple's separation.

During the interview on The Howard Stern Show, he said one of the most 'fked up' parts of the split is that spending time with his children is now labeled 'visitation', which he doesn't feel is fair to him or other fathers in similar situations.

'It's kind of fked up when time with your kids is considered visitations,' he said. 'It's unfair to the fathers in the situation. I'm just keeping it real...That's pain, right there.'

This is wrong in James' eyes, who was talking from his home in Temecula, California, and claims that Nick wanted to get outside marriage guidance before calling it quits.

He said: 'If Nick would have moved on quickly like that, so soon after the marriage, everyone in the country would have been questioning things.

'A woman can come out of divorce immediately, people tell her to get someone else to get over it, but to a man that's not the advice I would have given to my son. You got to have counseling.

'I've been watching just like everyone else, someone (Mariah) is already dating before the divorce is even final. It's different for Mariah because she's a woman.

'If a man was ready to hook up with this billion-dollar lady - if Nick was ready to hook up with Oprah - then people would say: "What's really going on before?"'

Accusing Mariah of having affair behind his son's back, he added: 'If my mom already decided she wanted to get married to another man next week after my pop just passed, I would question, did you really just meet this person? How long was this relationship really going on? Did you sabotage your relationship?'

James says that in life some people just don't have the guts to say their relationship isn't working out and try to fix it.