Cam Newton Gets Candid About Kia Proctor: 'I Wasn’t Prepared To Be A Husband.'

Cam Newton Gets Candid About Kia Proctor: ‘I Wasn’t Prepared To Be A Husband.’

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In a recent interview with Influencer and model Brittany Renner, NFL star Cam Newton, 32, spoke in-depth about his relationship with the mother of four of his children, Kia Proctor and why they have not gotten married.

In the episode of his Funky Friday Youtube series, @Brittany Renner Sets the Record Straight | Funky Friday w/ @Cam Newton, Newton and Renner both get real. During the chat, Renner asked Newton why he didn’t marry Proctor.

According to Essence, the Newton-Proctor couple started dating in 2013 before reportedly breaking up in early 2020. They were together for about seven years. Proctor entered that relationship with a daughter, and they had four children.

Newton says she did make it clear that she wanted to be married, but apparently, Newton wasn’t ready to commit that way.

He responded to Renner, “That’s a great question…The thing is that person that I was while we were having children together, I couldn’t be the best husband,” he said. “I wasn’t prepared to be a husband then.”

“We were both young. There was nothing, and still nothing I would never do for her. But at the same time, the person that she was when I met her, it wasn’t the person she was when I left her,” he said. “When I met Kia, and I say this protecting her, she wasn’t the one to be like, ‘I want to be married.’ I was more so the person. My parents been together 36 years. I know what marriage looks like: the ups, the downs, the trials, the tribulations.”

“I seen Kia really evolving into a woman where her standards were, ‘I ain’t just no baby mama,’” he said. “And when she kept putting pressure on me, I was like, ‘I don’t know if this is what I really want.’”

He also admitted that while in the prime of his NFL career, he couldn’t resist the temptations of other women.

“I was in Temptation Island. A football player, young, no, is not even in my vocabulary,” he said. “I just found myself in this downward spiral. Did she deserve better? I would humbly say yes. She did.”

“I was falling deeper into my own selfishness and realizing I gotta be better,” he continued. “‘I hope you have the patience,’ which she did. And she was around me through a lot of success, a lot of downfalls, and I respect her for that to this day, but it never led to the ultimate, which was a ring.” He added, “To me, it’s not even an apology that’s needed. We just grew apart.”

According to Newton, the two are on good terms as co-parents to their kids.

Newton was a quarterback for the Carolina Panthers. Nicknamed “Super Cam,” he is the NFL career leader in quarterback rushing touchdowns. The athlete had college football stints at Florida and Blinn before joining Auburn, where he won the Heisman Trophy and 2011 BCS National Championship Game as a junior. He was selected first overall by the Panthers in the 2011 NFL Draft. After missing most of the 2019 season due to surgery, Carolina released him. He played the 2020 season with the New England Patriots before being released in 2021 and returning to the Panthers.