Trinity Rodman spoke candidly about the current status of her relationship with her father, Dennis Rodman, in a new interview with Alex Cooper.
In the hour-long Call Her Daddy conversation, available in full here, the pro soccer star looked back on a surprise appearance from her father at a game back in 2021. Headlines at the time were numerous, with Trinity herself sharing an extended statement on her father’s appearance at the game on Instagram.
“We don’t have the best relationship, but at the end of the day, he’s human,” she wrote at the time.
Speaking with Cooper, the recent Olympian said she was “so mad” when she realized her father had shown up at the game. As she explained, she was already “stressed” about the match, a feeling she suggests was magnified by Dennis Rodman’ high-profile pop-in.
“I’m already shitting my pants as it is,” said Trinity Rodman, whose mother is Michelle Moyer. “I’m stressed, like, oh my gosh, we have to win. We go, I’m playing. I think it’s, like, halfway through the first half and I hear [his voice].”
After the two caught up following the match, resulting in a number of widely shared photos, Rodman said her dad told her he would see her “soon,” though that allegedly didn’t happen.
“After that, radio silence,” Rodman said. “I didn’t see him until this year. I didn’t talk to him or see him until, I think, right after the World Cup.”
Elsewhere, she elaborated on her and her father’s strained relationship, attributing at least some of it to what she characterized as alcoholism.
Addressing an instance in which she wished her mother a happy Father’s Day due to her dual parental role, Rodman highlighted how the public’s view of her father is not in line with what she says she’s experienced in her life.
“That’s not disrespect,” she said. “He’s not a dad. He’s a person, but he’s not a dad. Maybe by blood, nothing else.”
Rodman also said that speaking with her father “fucks me up every single time,” bringing on some deeply complicated emotions.
“I think now, hearing his voice is painful,” she said. ”I think it’s missing him mixed with he’s an alcoholic. And again, that’s something that I don’t wanna say but I’m just, like, fuck it. It’s just the truth. And hearing, even the past five years, the difference in the way that his sentences go together, it feels like he’s gone.”