U.S. women’s national team star Trinity Rodman detailed a fractured relationship with her father, NBA champion Dennis Rodman, who she said was both emotionally distant and created financial difficulties for his children during their youth.
The soccer player has been reluctant to talk about her father in public, alluding to a complicated relationship with the retired basketball star. On an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast that was published Wednesday, though, Rodman finally went into length about her father. “He’s not a dad,” she said. “Maybe by blood, but nothing else.”
“With the dad situation, in terms of what I’ve filtered and what I’ve talked about, I feel like me and my brother have been very generous with the way that we’ve talked about it and very unselfish,” Rodman said. “I think we never want to make him look bad, and that is at the cost of holding in a lot, and a lot of issues we’ve gone through and just like, trauma, per se.”
Rodman, alongside her older bother D.J., and her mother Michelle Moyer, lived with her father in the early years of her life, but his lifestyle forced Moyer to move the family out of his Southern California home.
“My mom was really good at making every situation seem smoother than it actually was, and I think that’s what parents do to protect their children, but I think even being young, it was like he partied all the time,” Rodman said. “We tried to live with him, but he’s having parties 24/7, he’s bringing random bitches in…I still believe my dad hasn’t loved anyone after my mom. I genuinely believe that. I think he doesn’t know how to. I think they both felt the same way about each other, but it’s just, his demons were just too strong for it. I think my mom just saw the situation of, ‘We love each other, it’s not going to work and for my kids, I can’t have them seeing you treat me this way, embarrass me this way and have the party scene all the time. You have little babies.'”
Rodman said her father then essentially cut the family off financially, forcing them to live at one point in a Ford…
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