Dennis Rodman and Trinity Rodman Getty Photographs; WireImage
Dennis Rodman and his youngest daughter, Trinity, have had ups and downs over time.
Rodman and ex-wife Michelle Moyer welcomed Trinity in 2002, one yr after the start of son DJ. (Rodman additionally shares eldest daughter Alexis with ex-wife Annie Bakes.)
Greater than 20 years later, Trinity declared on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast that the NBA legend was “not a dad” to her.
“Perhaps by blood, however nothing else,” she mentioned in December 2024. “ I don’t need to say negatively, however extra lifelike about it. We tried to be that basis and to be the great individuals round him. As a result of in actuality, we by no means actually requested for something except we actually wanted it. … He’s by no means understood that individuals might really simply need to be round him and to simply need to make him blissful.”
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Photographs Dennis Rodman has confronted his interior “demons” about parenthood via the years. “I believe the one main demon I’ve proper now could be attempting to persuade myself that I’m dad,” Rodman mentioned throughout a 2020 ESPN interview. “It’s very laborious for me to attempt to escape of that […]
In line with Trinity, Rodman’s way of life impacted his capability to be husband and father.
“We tried to reside with him, however he’s having events 24/7. He’s bringing random bitches in,” she claimed. “My mother didn’t need — she was sturdy sufficient to cope with it as a result of even to at the present time, I nonetheless imagine that my dad hasn’t liked anybody after my mother. I believe my mother simply noticed the state of affairs of, ‘We love one another. It’s not gonna work, or my children, I can’t have them seeing you deal with me this fashion, embarrass me this fashion and have the get together scene on a regular basis.’”
After Moyer and Rodman cut up, the youngsters primarily resided with their mom.
Preserve scrolling to revisit Rodman’s ups and downs with daughter Trinity:
Might 2002
Trinity, the second little one of Rodman and Moyer, was born in Might. As famous on “Name Her Daddy,” she was Rodman’s “little princess.”
June 2006
Rodman and Moyer made a uncommon pink carpet look with DJ and Trinity on the Los Angeles premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Lifeless Man’s Chest. They continued to help Rodman at his 2011 jersey retirement ceremony and extra public occasions regardless of alleged drama at residence.
2012
After Rodman and Moyer finalized their divorce, DJ and Trinity primarily lived with their mother.
“We have been seeing him as soon as, two, three, 4 instances a yr,” Trinity recalled on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast in 2024. “Each time they have been collectively, it was the identical s—. It was my mother being legitimate and ‘What the f— are you doing? Assist us and assist your kids.’”
At one level, Trinity claimed that her household lived in a automobile as a result of Rodman stopped financially offering for them.
“That was all of the combat was ever about, in entrance of us no less than,” she mentioned. “It was simply the cash get together and serving to your kids.”
Later that yr, Rodman was ordered to pay Moyer $500,000 in again little one help.
Trinity Rodman has “made it clear” that dad Dennis Rodman is “not current” in her life — however she’s lastly able to share the reality about their relationship. “He’s not a dad,” Trinity, 22, defined throughout her “Name Her Daddy” interview on Wednesday, December 18. “Perhaps by blood, however nothing else.” Dennis, 63, shares Trinity […]
March 2018
“He’s kinda rad😀❤️,” Trinity wrote in an Instagram tribute, sharing a pic of the father-daughter pair.
November 2021
Rodman attended one in all Trinity’s professional soccer matches throughout her rookie yr with the Washington Spirit. Whereas they have been photographed hugging forward of the match, she later broke down in tears.
“I believe it’s like midway via the primary half and I hear [his voice],” she recalled on her “Name Her Daddy” episode. “I’m like, ‘Oh my f—ing gosh, like, there’s no means that is occurring proper now.’ Thoughts you, I haven’t seen him in or talked to him in months. I used to be like, ‘You took this blissful second for me, like, you f—ed with my head once more.”
After the soccer recreation, Rodman allegedly stopped reaching out to Trinity.
April 2022
“I really like you, dad,” she wrote through Instagram.
December 2024
Throughout Trinity’s “Name Her Daddy” look, she claimed that Rodman resumed communication earlier that yr.
“I reply the telephone now for my conscience. If one thing does occur, God forbid, I need to know that I did that,” she mentioned. “Or if he wanted to listen to my voice earlier than something occurs. That’s why I reply the telephone, not for me.”
Trinity’s claims sparked a response from Rodman, who apologized in a prolonged Instagram observe.
“Sorry I wasn’t the dad you wished me to be however both means I nonetheless tried and I nonetheless attempt to by no means will cease. I’ll maintain attempting even once you’re being informed as an grownup not to reply to my telephone calls,” he wrote. “I’ll attempt even when it’s tough and if it takes a very long time. I’m at all times right here and let you know on a regular basis, whether or not it’s your voice or voicemail, how proud I’m.”
Rodman added, “I at all times had one want and it was I want my children would name me and are available see me. Hopefully, sooner or later I can get that. I’m right here and I’m nonetheless attempting to select up the telephone you’ve got my quantity, You see me calling, I’m nonetheless right here.”
In response to Rodman’s message, Trinity alleged it was all finished for “the eye.”
“Wiping my fingers with it. I’m finished,” she wrote on her Instagram Tales. “Thanks.”
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July 2025
After attending one in all boyfriend Ben Shelton’s tennis matches together with his household, Trinity took to Instagram to share her ideas on BBC Sports activities’ Andrew Citadel, who known as her “Tiffany” through the broadcast and referred to Dennis as “one of many biggest sportsmen of all time.”
“For Ben’s matches he has his household there as his help system which incorporates his dad,” she wrote. “My dads not even in MY life no have to deliver him up throughout HIS matches after I don’t even need him talked about throughout mine.”
January 2026
Trinity made girls’s soccer historical past when she signed a three-year extension with the NWSL’s Washington Spirit value a reported $2 million per yr, making her the highest-paid girls’s soccer participant on this planet.
Dennis celebrated the information from afar, sharing an announcement from ESPN through his Instagram Story and including Drake and Nicki Minaj’s “Make Me Proud.”
“Historical past,” he wrote over the submit.
