Dennis Rodman He has tried to apologize publicly to his daughter Trinity after comments about their relationship.
Trinity appeared on Alex Cooper. Call her daddy podcast on Wednesday (Dec. 18), where He admitted that he did not see his father as a parent. “He’s not the father. Maybe by blood, but nothing else,” she said during the episode.
The five-time NBA champion and member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later responded to Trinity in an Instagram post shared Wednesday evening. Her post featured a video with the camera panning various printed photos of herself and Trinity together as she apologized in a lengthy caption.
“Sorry I wasn’t the dad you wanted me to be but either way I still tried and I still try and I will never stop,” the caption read. “I’ll keep trying even when you’re told as an adult not to answer my phone calls. I’ll try even when it’s hard and if it takes a long time.
“I’m always here and always telling you how proud I am of your voice or voicemail. I’ve always had one wish and that was for my kids to call me and come visit me. Hope That one day I’ll get it. I’m here and I’m still trying to pick up the phone you have my number, you see me calling, I’m still here Dennis Rodman- Dad.
He also notes that he makes sure to watch her soccer games, whether she wants him there or not.
“FYI: I watch you play all the time,” Rodman wrote. “I actually flew to see you play and I was told not to reveal who I was with and I just wanted to support you, so I just saw you off my hotel balcony. Seen to please all. I love all my children.”
During the episode, Trinity reminisces about the time her father played a game in 2021 during his rookie season with the Washington Spirit of the National Women’s Soccer League.
“I think it’s like halfway through the first half and I heard. [his voice]” he said. “I’m like, oh my God, like, there’s no way right now. Mind you, I haven’t seen or spoken to him in months.
Despite being distraught by the situation, she eventually ran to him in tears after the game and they hugged each other. “Then I walk over, and once again there are cameras everywhere, she grabs my head and I just start talking in her arms like it’s a father-daughter thing…” Cooper said. Told to
Elsewhere during the podcast, Trinity revealed why she feels now is the right time to speak publicly about her father.
“We never want to make it bad and that’s at the cost of catching a lot,” he said. “I think it’s just anger that I couldn’t get out, like, it’s hard for me.”