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Dennis Rodman is sharing his perspective.
After Trinity Rodman—the daughter of the NBA star and his ex-wife Michelle Moyer—revealed the current state of their relationship, he reflected on his fatherhood journey.
"Sorry I wasn't the Dad you wanted me to be but either way I still tried and I still Try and Never will Stop," Dennis told Trinity in the caption of his Dec. 19 Instagram post. "I will keep Trying even when you're being told as an adult not to respond to my phone calls. I will try even when it's difficult and if it takes a long time."
"I'm always here And tell you all the time [whether] it's your voice or voicemail how proud I am," he continued. "I always had one wish and it was I wish my kids would call me and come see me. Hopefully one day I can get that. 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."
The 63-year-old—who also shares son Dennis "DJ" Rodman with Michelle, in addition to Alexis Rodman with ex-wife Annie Bakes—noted that he watches the Olympic soccer player compete in her games.
"[I] actually flew in to watch you play and was told not to show up bc who I was with instead and me just wanting to support you," he added alongside a video collage of photos from his kids' childhood. "So I watched you from my hotel balcony just to make everybody happy. I love All My Kids."
The former athlete's message, who Trinity described as an "extremely selfish human being," comes one day after his daughter slammed his parenting.
"He's not a dad," she told Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast. "Maybe by blood, but nothing else."
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"Me and my brother have been very generous with the way that we've talked about it and very unselfish," she explained. "We never want to make him look bad and that is at the cost of holding in a lot of issues that we've gone through and trauma."
The gold medalist, who became the youngest player ever drafted into the National Women's Soccer League, expressed her frustration when Dennis mentioned his kids in interviews.
"I do believe that he wishes that he could fight his demons," Trinity said. "I roll my eyes because you hear something so many times, but he does nothing to change it. Like, 'I wish I was a better dad.' He said that in so many interviews. It's like, OK. Then do something."
She also shared how Dennis' party lifestyle and alcohol usage ultimately led to her, her mom and brother living in a car to keep them away from the vices. But even as she criticized his behavior, she acknowledged that the NBA superstar was fighting "demons."
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"With how successful he was and how rich he was, he was surrounded by a lot of toxic people who would take his money and take advantage of him," she said. "Because he was in alcohol, he was brainwashed and didn't really have any control over anything."
Trinity emphasized that her family unsuccessfully tried to be his support.
"We tried to be that foundation and to be the good people around him because, in reality, we never asked for anything unless we really needed it," she explained. "We just want you. He's never understood that fact 'cause he's never experienced it."
"He never understood that people could actually just want to be around him and just want to make him happy," she added. "He's always thinking money, money, money."
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