Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon: Romantic Details Tue, 22-Sep-2009
Mariah Carey and hubby Nick Cannon may be happily ever after now, but Nick revealed that he had to wait a long time for his dream girl to come into the picture.
The “Glitter” diva dished, “He likes to say that he spoke it into existence. He told everybody who he thought might know me, ‘Tell your girl Mariah that I want to talk to her.’ All this stuff. I didn’t know him…but I didn’t know what to believe.”
Nick finally got his wish at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards after Mariah received an award for “We Belong Together,” and Nick insisted that he give the singer her award.
“He told me that he said to the people that were doing the show, that he wouldn’t do it, unless he could present my award to me,” she explains. “I said, ‘Thank you for all the nice things that you’ve been saying about me.’ And he said ‘I meant everything — give me a chance.’ And then I didn’t see him again for two years.”
But bad timing was to blame for the delay. Mariah says that her bodyguards quickly led her on and Nick did not receive a number. The couple was finally brought back together when Mariah was creating a video.
“I always remembered the moment,” tells Mariah. “We were doing a video and there was going to be a love interest in it. And we were thinking of all different actors and people — we wanted it to look authentic. And I said, ‘Oh, what about Nick Cannon?’ ” | 
