Nick Cannon called himself the "greatest fan" of ex-wife Mariah Carey and shared that he used to have her pictures on his wall. "I was 12…[later, Mariah Carey became] my wife…she's the coolest person I've...met…She's a gift from God," he said in an interview with The Shade Room. Nick and Mariah got married in 2008 and got divorced in 2016.