Trinity Rodman
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Um, I don't really remember so much younger and I feel like me and my brother were very oblivious to it. But then once we got older, when he was in our lives less and we were seeing him once, two, three, four times a year, every time they were together, it was like, it was the same shit. It was my mom being valid and what the fuck are you doing? Like help us and help your children.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And he was just like, Oh, you just use me for my money, mama. And even then it was like, that was all the fight was ever about in front of us, at least. It was just the money part and helping your children. And even then it was my dad, he likes to be in control. So like he would take us shopping, get us phones, do this, do that. Oh, I'm going to take you and your brother shopping.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Oh my gosh. I cried. I like collapsed and cried, but I don't know. I feel like there's like no true celebration afterwards because Hey, you got to go back to your season and under BSO. So we celebrated like the night of
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And me and my brother are like... we don't want to go shopping. We don't want to go shopping. We just want money to go get in and out after school with our friends. So it was like, he wouldn't give us money to do that. He needed to have the control of bringing us shopping and swiping his own card.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
But if we asked, Hey, could we have a hundred to like go get food, go, go to Claire's get my ears pierced. Like just little stuff like that. He was like, no, you're using me. You're trying like all this stuff.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I think that it was kind of like, that's not my problem anymore. And I don't even know. To try to justify his brain is so hard. Because... Even now, I genuinely believe he's still in love with my mom because he'll call me randomly and be like, how's your mom doing? Like even before you ask how I'm doing.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So whenever we would see each other, he was always just like almost trying to get my mom to fall in love with him again so that it could be a family thing, even if it was toxic. But I think once it was a divorce, it was like... all right, like you, this is on you. Like, yeah.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
It was, I'm like smiling about it because it was the best and worst situation, if that makes sense. So we had an expedition and And we kind of lived in that for a little bit. Mind you, in Newport Beach. An expedition with a car. Yeah. Like Newport Beach, we're going to, I think this is when we were at, what is it? Ensign by Newport Harbor. So we were still in Newport.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
partied with our coaches and our staff and everything that was fun and I didn't take the medal off even the flight home like it wasn't it was glued to my neck when did you first take it off probably when I went to sleep when I got home because I was like okay that's a lot but even through security I was like trying to wear it and they were like no I was like oh
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So imagine living in a car, going to like a rich school. Like it's the most weird thing ever. but we were living in a car, but then we could afford to stay in a motel for a little bit. So we were kind of back and forth like what nights we could pay for, how many nights we could pay for.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
But I'm saying it's the best because me and my brother, my mom is obviously like prideful and like she never wants to be looked at that way of like not being able to provide for her kids. So like my mom's like, I'm sorry that we had to do that. I'm sorry that you had to go through that. But me and my brother are just like, what? That was so much fun.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Like as a kid, we lived in a motel in our routine every morning. We would make those waffles in the waffle machine in the motel breakfast, like before school. And then we'd go in. My mom would let us go into the hot tub in the pool. So like this is all preschool stuff. like fun stuff in the morning.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So this is like us getting up 6.30, 7 a.m., making our waffles, jumping in the pool, chilling in the hot tub, playing, being like best friends, and then showering, getting dressed. And then we would drive to school in this like beat up expedition when everybody else is in like Rolls Royces and Range Rovers and all that stuff. But for me and DJ, it was never.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
It was like never embarrassing in the weirdest way. It was weird. And we knew that we were kind of like the odd men out in a sense, but we never ever would like rush out of the car, like be like, mom, pick us up over here. Like it was never like that. So yeah, going back long story short, it's like worst and best situation.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Cause me and my brother looked back and we're like, that was so fun in the weirdest way.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
It wasn't that long. We were in that motel for months. But again, it was fun, even as an adult. Like, that was fun.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah, it's crazy. And I mean, she's not like she had an easy childhood. Like she didn't have a father figure either. So I mean, yeah, she went through her own struggles while somehow making our life extremely fun being broke, which is insane because everything costs money. So how do you have fun?
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Never resentful. Obviously, there were times where it was like our friends would be doing stuff and we couldn't go. Yeah. Or like we just didn't want to go because we didn't want to ask people for money.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So it was never resentment. It was more so like, damn, I wish I could have went there.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I'm like staring at it through the thing. Wait, where did you put it when you went to bed? I have this little case that I got when we won in 2021 for my ring, but it's like big. And so I just put it in there. Hopefully it's still there. I haven't checked on it in a minute. Wait, what? I should probably check to see if she's okay.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And that's the crazy part is like. We still were going to those events like we were just a happy little family like getting dressed getting styled like His jersey retirement all those things that we attended to While we're like not financially like it was just the weirdest thing because it was like We did things for him and we've always done things for him.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
It's like He wanted to have a good image of having his family by him and we were like, yeah, we'll go so exciting like
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
When we were younger, it was more. Okay. Way more. And then I think as we got older and understood the situation more, my mom became stronger in the situation. That's when it was less. And I would say by the time we were in, I'll say like,
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
seventh grade until even now it was three four times a year okay when we lived in the same city and did you ever live with him when we were really young but that's when we were like right after we were born yeah but that wasn't that long because my mom was over the party and she was just like we're getting done yeah in his acceptance speech he said the one thing he regretted was not being a better father you just rolled your eyes
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah, I do believe that he wishes that he could fight his demons. I roll my eyes because it's like you hear something so many times, but he does nothing to change it. And it's like, I wish I was a better dad. He said that in so many interviews, like I could pull them up. And it's like, okay, then do something.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And I think what the most frustrating part about it is, is I think 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. And because he was in alcohol, he was kind of brainwashed and all that, didn't really have control over anything. I don't know.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
That was just... So I think, again, the rolling eyes comes from we tried to be that foundation and to be the good people around him. Because in reality, we never really asked for anything unless we really needed it. Me, my mom, and my brother, it was like, we just want you. And I think for him, he's never understood the fact... Because he's never experienced it.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
He's had messed up family issues as well. He's never understood that people could actually just want to be around him and to just want to like make him happy. He's always thinking money, money, money, money when it's like.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah, and it's just hard, because it's, like, even now, I'm, like, trying to be honest about it, and I'm still giving him sympathy, which is, like, frustrating for me, because in reality, I think he's an extremely selfish human being. I think everything has always been about him. He's gone through shit, but at the same time, I'm like, he loves the spotlight. He loves the cameras.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
He loves bringing his children on stage and being like, oh, these are my kids. Like, all that stuff, and even, like, the mind... I've been, whoa, I've been cussing. That's new for me. I was going to say the mind fuck, but like of him, like for me emotionally, he's put me through like, oh my gosh, like. Even just him not talking to me for months, months and months.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I feel like I have so many little superstitions. Okay.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And then he randomly calls and he's like, Hey, like I'm thinking of doing a TV show, reality TV show. You want to join? I'm just like, whoa. So like, that's the part where I have so much anger towards it of like, why have I been so nice about someone who's so selfish? And that's the thing with our entire family is like,
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
You said it in the beginning of like us protecting him when he's never once protected us. He's almost made it worse because he has put us in the public light at a young age. So I guess it's just like the anger that I haven't really been able to let out is like difficult for me.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
gum is one i can't live without gum really for soccer so like i'll go through probably three or four pieces of gum a game and if i am going on the field and i don't have gum in my mouth like i'll throw a tantrum like i'm a diva like i need gum that's the one thing screw water i need gum we what kind of gum um anything peppermint spearmint i it can die
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
yeah and that's like what you're saying is like the weirdest thing because even when i'm like even like going through a season where you're just like damn i'm so over this like i just want to go home and sleep in moments like that i'm like damn i wish i could just get a hug from my dad when i don't even have that connection with him like when he showed up at my game i was like so mad yeah like we talk about that i first saw him yeah i kind of already started talking about everything but it's okay
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah, he showed up to my game. My mom had no idea until he was like there. And I think she got a call or something, but they were in the sweet field side. And I, again, going in my rookie year, going into a quarterfinal, like I'm already shitting my pants as it is. Like I'm like stressed, like, oh my gosh, like we have to win. We go, I'm playing.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I think it's like halfway through the first half and I hear it. And like his voice to me is like, So I hear him go, let's go Rodman, let's go Trinity. And I'm like, oh my fucking gosh. Like, there's no way this is happening right now. Mind you, I haven't seen him in or talked to him in months, months. So I hear it and I'm like, I'm playing a game, not like throw in nothing.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Like I'm playing a game and I hear I'm running. I'm like, oh my gosh. So I'm still playing and I'm like, there's no way. I'm like chasing the ball down, trying to figure out a goal kick happens, right? I'm defending a goal kick. And I'm like in my stance kind of and I look back and I'm like, what the fuck? I look straight and I like start crying on the field.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So I'm trying to play the soccer game and I'm crying. And I don't know if we got a water break. I think there was like an injury or a water break. Yeah. Because we go into the huddle and I go to Ashley Sanchez, which is like one of my best friends. Go to her in the huddle while our coach is trying to give us direction of like what's working, what's not working.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Because like we were playing horrible the first half.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
i'm looking at ash i'm crying no one knows what the fuck's going on i'm looking at ash and i'm like dude my dad's here and she knew immediately she was like oh fuck she gave me a hug she was like it's okay let's just finish this half like we'll talk in the locker room at halftime just finish this half don't think about it i was like sure let me just forget yeah classic easy advice um so yeah finish that half and then cry my eyes out in the locker room at halftime and my coach was like do you want do you want to play and i was like yeah
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I want to win. Hello? I'm like, he is not going to take me from winning this either. Fuck you. So, yeah, we finished the game. Were you able to, like, play well? Yeah. So I took the shot, ricocheted back, and Hatch scored it for us to win. Yeah, you did. Awesome.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And then after the game, when we were winning, there's that part in your head where, like, the whistle's going to blow, the whistle's going to blow. And all I was thinking was, like, oh, my God, I'm going to see him. I'm going to talk to him. Like, what's going to happen? The whistle blew and I was so...
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
like mad i was like you took this happy moment from me like you fuck with my head again and he did it so many times and i don't even know no i think he knows what he does but when the game ended i was so angry i was happy we won but i was just like and then i started getting mad at my mom because i was like she had to have known why didn't she tell me like all this stuff and then i walk over and again there's cameras everywhere dennis rodman's at the game blah blah
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And I walk over there and all I did was cry. I was like, I'm walking over there so mad. Like, fuck you. I walk over there. He grabs my head and I just start bawling into his arms as if like it's a daddy daughter. Like, and I'm just like, this is the first game you've come to quarterfinal. You missed the entire season. Haven't seen my games in three, four or five years. And I'm just like bawling.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
no yeah what else i have to sit in the same spot on the bus on the way to the game every single time i have to stand in the same spot for warm-up behind my girl tara um there's so many things i have to have at home games i have to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the locker room red bull is essential for energy and psychotic behavior in the locker room So many things.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I was, I cried and then I was super happy. I was like, let's take the positive of it. He's here. Like, that's more than I can ask. So then we go into like this friends and family part after we're like talking, whatever. He's asking me how everything's going. It's like honestly like a pretty wholesome thing. Like, oh my gosh, imagine. So we're just like talking, catching up.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And then I don't remember how it was left. I think I just went home because I had training the next day. And we just kind of left it at that. And he was just like, I want to see you soon. I'm in D.C., whatever. And I was like, okay. And then after that, radio silence. I didn't see him for like... Until this year. I didn't talk to him or see him. Yeah, until I think... No.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah, right after the World Cup. Wait, how many years ago was this? Three. This was 2021.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And I'm talking to media. I put out this huge post like, we're not perfect. I love my dad. Like this could be the start of something new. Like I know blah, blah, blah. Like being super nice about it. Like just grateful that he even showed up. I'm like, I don't know what it has in store, but I'm just happy that we got to have this moment together.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
stupid me for thinking that was going to be some type of like new spark because that was me every single time he would come around and i'd be like okay here it is again we're going to start something he's going to be around boom months and months and months this time was years and i was just like okay cool and so then it's like after that then it's media outlets asking about the post asking about him being there so i'm like super positive i'm just like yeah like obviously it was really emotional i'm really happy months and months go by i'm still talking about on media i'm just like fuck here we go again
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So then it was just like, I think after that was when I lost hope in like ever getting him back. It was just going to be like a, he's popping in whenever he wants to be in a camera. And even at that game, I don't think it was for me. I think he wanted to have a good conscience and then be like, headline, Dennis Rodman showed up to his daughter's game, an important quarterfinal in her rookie year.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah. Even now, like I don't have his number saved. I think he, cause he had called me like even these past couple of weeks, he's been trying to call me and I was just a Texas number. Didn't know he lived in Texas. So that's news to me. So I'm just thinking it's like spam risk, like all this stuff. And I'm like, okay, they're just like spam calls. Like normal. I get those all the time.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So I was ignoring it. And then I see like voicemails from it and I'm like, And then I look and I hear it for a second. I was like, fuck. And I think I heard it for a second because I saw that the voicemail was 40 seconds long. I was like, no, I'm not doing that. And it's just like a hit or miss day for me. It's like if I want to go through that or not. And I'm just like, no.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I don't know if it's changing or losing his phones or what. But again, he never has an iPhone. He always has a flip phone. And I honestly think he'll just like trash them and get new ones.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah, I think it fucks me up every single time. Even I think now hearing his voice is painful. Because I think it's missing him mixed with he's an alcoholic. And again, that's something that I don't want to say, but I'm just like, fuck it. Like, it's just the truth. And like, hearing even the past five years, hearing the difference in the way that his sentences go together.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And now I'm like, like, I genuinely keep thinking, I'm like, he's gone. Like, it feels like he's gone. And like hearing him talk, I'm just like,
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
like i answer the phone now for like my conscience to be like if something does happen god forbid i want to know that like i did that or if he needed to hear my voice before anything happens like that's why i answer the phone not for me but then i answer the phone and i have that conversation and i hear the way he's talking and how gone and drunk he is and i'm just like That was horrible.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I'm like, that did nothing for me. Like, if something were to happen, if I would have had that phone call and if I wouldn't have, I would have felt the same way.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Right. Like living to make someone else happy.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
It's hard to make boundaries when he's like, it's a rare occurrence. Like if you were, say, calling me randomly every single week. OK, cool. But it's like so random that I'm like, you don't know when the next phone call is going to come. So it's like, what is a boundary?
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah, I'm the person that the chill ones hate. Because we have the people in our locker room that have their headphones on. They're stretching. They're down. They're not talking to anybody. And I'm bouncing like a crazy person around the locker room. I'm trying to take their headphones off. I'm like, come on, come on. So yeah, I'm the annoying person and I just can't help it.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
is kind of translates into how he loves other people because he loved my mom i do not question that she does not question that he treated her like shit so it's just weird and it's like to me even after everything i said he treats me the best i'm like still his little princess and i can't do any wrong he growing up he treated my brother like shit too said fuck you you're not good enough what are you doing with basketball you're not and
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And that's, yeah, that's touching on a whole different thing with the hate that my brother gets being in the same sport. Like, I don't even... People and the insensitivity with that. It's like, you're never as good as your dad, all this stuff. It's like, he doesn't have to be. And also, he's not around. And I think, too, I'm, like, just blabbering.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
But that's also another thing of, like, that's the most he's talked to me about in terms of, like, loving my brother. Like, the man-to-man thing. he doesn't know how to father in general, but especially to, like, he doesn't know how to show that. Like, with me and my mom, he could at least hug us. Like, he knows how to do that. He doesn't know how to do that with my brother.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And that's just, I mean, caused a lot of issues with my brother's confidence and obviously hearing your dad say, like, you're not good enough, all this stuff. And it's like, too, like, playing with Brawny. It's like, you see Brawny and you see LeBron. And it's like, that is picture perfect, like, holy... So even that is just a whole nother thing for my brother. And I don't want to speak for him.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I'm sure when he's ready, if he's ever ready to talk about that, that's just another thing that my dad doesn't realize he's affected so much of our like day to day. Yeah. Like the reason my brother gets hate for basketball was because of him.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I can't be chill for a game because like I said earlier, it just psychs me out more and I get nervous. And I'm like, if I'm just on 10 the entire time, you can't be scared.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
yeah and that's yeah 100 and yeah the brawny and lebron's like i've seen the hate that brawny gets too it's unbelievable to try to live up to being the goat of lebron james but yeah i think with my brother it's just you're never enough like it's sad and like no one can tell him that he's enough because the one person that he wants to say is he Enough. Yeah. So it's yeah, it's tough.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Like, we're just trying to like get a check or like, oh, pity story. Try to like create this thing. But I think, yeah, they're always I think there's a lot of times where there's it's always going to be like everyone on my dad's side. Like when for like Father's Day.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
like that day is shitty for people that don't have father figures so for us like our coping mechanism for it was posting our mom like happy father's day thanks for being both and that was that's no disrespect to the father figures like still a day to celebrate dads and fathers but for us that's our dad that's our mom and our dad in the weirdest way and even just comments like that like don't disrespect him like that it's like that's not disrespect he's not a dad why he's a person he's not a dad maybe by blood but nothing else
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I'm just, like, not going to give a fuck, honestly. Like, that's how I feel, though. Because I watch interviews back and I'm like, ew, why do I look so scared? Like, this is, like, my story. Right. And, like, there are times where he gets brought up where I'm just like, yeah, like... Yeah, he's like, I know he's proud of me. Like, and I'm like, ew. Like, just say how you feel.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And even sometimes I wish I, like, when people ask, oh, like, is he going to come to one of the Olympic games? I don't know. And other, like, I'll dodge it and I'll be like, oh, like, my mom's going to be here. I'm going to give her a hug. And I'm like, great answer from a PR team. Perfect answer. Right? In reality, like, not to be a diva, but I'm just like, I want to be like, I don't know. Yeah.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
How am I supposed to know? and that's it that's that's the end true you make me feel uncomfortable I'm gonna make you feel uncomfortable and I feel like I've been so comfortable being uncomfortable and I'm just done you're fucking done obviously there's been like I think the rise of your career has been fucking incredible trinity like you're so fucking talented in your own right and
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
You know what's funny about this is that like I literally just figured out what it affected. Like I would say a week ago. What did it affect? I think... My love language is affection and, like, physical touch. But I think that's because I never got that from my dad. And I never got that type of love. And because of that, he didn't show that to my brother either.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So my brother's very similar to my dad in the way that he loves. Like, he's... I don't want to say cold, but he's not a lovey-dovey, squishy person in a relationship. So I don't get that from my brother or my dad. So I think... the way that I am in relationships.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Yeah, I think. my first relationship, I think obviously first relationships are always like kind of a, what is love? What are we doing? Yeah. Um, I think then I was extremely insecure in myself and I kind of let the person walk all over me in a sense, but again, I don't regret any relationship. I think they've all helped me so much and I'm still cordial with like everyone that I've been with, but
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
I put up with a lot because I didn't have validation. So I feel like it's done a 360 now. But I would say I was really insecure and let a lot of shit slide back then. Like what? Like hanging out with... The boys, right? Love that sentence, right? Right? Oh, we're hanging out with the boys. Okay. Fuck off. But it'd be like hanging out with the boys.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
No, yeah, couldn't relate. Like, what are we meditating about? What are we thinking? What's on the brain? Because there's nothing.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And I'd be like, damn, I wanted to hang out with you tonight. And happens. And then there's like 10 girls there. I'm your girlfriend. What do you mean? And those are also not... the boys. So just something like that. And even that was the weirdest thing. It was that my brother was best friends with him. So my brother was there.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
What? I want to talk about corner kicks this entire fucking time. Perfect, because I don't take them. So I'm going to just see what happens. My first corner kick was in the championship four years into my pro. Stop. I literally walk up to the corner and I was like, what are we doing? Championship, we're losing. There's like a couple minutes left. I'm standing there like...
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
So it was a push and pull with him of like, that's my best friend, but you're, my sister's crying all the time. My sister is sobbing. Get it together. I learned a lot from that relationship. I think that was great. And like, even with that, we were still like best friends in the weirdest way, but I learned a lot. of things of like, I'm not taking that shit.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
And I think that then helped me in my next relationship of like, I felt most confident in my next relationship. And then it was a different struggle of like, I'm so confident and I'm so happy That now I'm like too reliant on this relationship. And now I'm like isolating myself from everybody else because I'm like addicted to the feeling that he's given me.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
Like the love and affection and like you're beautiful and all this stuff. So that was just another issue that I had to work through.
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Trinity Rodman: The Truth about My Family
how have you learned throughout the years to just like stabilize your own reality and like keep your bubble as safe as you can when all the rest around you is kind of moving it's obviously so it's just so weird and it's like so hard not to be hurt by certain things like reading things getting updates through media and then people ask you and you're like you probably knew before i did or you probably honestly know
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more than I do. Like it's so, so, so weird. Or just like little stuff like him not being in my life and then like, Other people, and I'm not throwing shade at anybody, but, like, I remember Angel Reese had wore his jersey to a game. And then there was a picture of them. And, like, he is a really famous basketball player. And, like, style-wise, everything. Like, inspiring.
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But I think as a daughter, seeing that, it's like, no shade, but it's like, damn, I wish that was me.
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I wish I was taking a picture with him I wish I was wearing his jersey like when I wear his jersey I feel like it's not like holy shit but like when Angel Reese wears it it's like Angel Reese is wearing Dennis Rodman's jersey and like I think that's like a a sting to me and I don't want to sound like bitchy at all because again statement like pop off but for me as his daughter it's like
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Dad, what the hell? Like, it's just weird. No, it's like... And those are the things you have to filter. And it's like, okay, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
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I don't know. I feel like it's really hard to celebrate it in the weirdest way. Like one, because it's just nonstop all the time. And like, I'm so grateful for every opportunity, but sometimes I'm just like, I wish I had a moment to take a breath and be like, I did that. Like, holy. So to say like, who do I celebrate with? I, I don't know because I don't think that I really do.
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Like, obviously like I, I'm happier. I'll watch a clip of like the Olympics, the goal. I'm like, oh my God. Like, ah, but it's little moments like that. Like it's just rewatching a clip of something, but I don't think genuinely I really think or celebrate myself. I think it's more so, especially in interviews and stuff. It's like, how proud are you? And it's like,
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it's such a copy and paste answer through every interview. It's just like, I can't even find the words. I'm so proud. I'm like a robot. I'm like, I'm so happy. Like I, like it's indescribable. I'm 22 and have a gold medal. And it's like, even in those moments, it's like genuinely deep down. I feel so proud of myself, but it's so repetitive and so like robotic that I, I don't think of it that way.
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Go play for a freaking championship. I'm lost. That was annoying. But you flew back to America. No, I literally played, I think, less than a week after I got back. No, that was just a lie. I lied. I think it was like a week and a half. But I played in the first game back and it was scored. but still my legs were on fire and I was dying.
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Um, I think the recognition for one, I think, um, Even just in conversation, it's like, oh, who do you play for? Spirit. And they're like, what's that? I'm like, ugh.
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But I'm like, I don't know. I would say recognition, pay, obviously. Like, even just being on media. And it's like, obviously, NBA, NFL makes way more money, has way more viewers. Like, not taking that away. But I think seeing the contracts and then looking at ours, I'm just like, fuck. I'm so grateful to be making the money that I make right now at my age. But I look and I'm just like...
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It's just like... But also I'd say another big thing is like... The human aspect of it. Like... I just feel like with male sports, with men, it's like... They're out here... Going to concerts, on stage, going to clubs, going to all this. And it's like, oh, here this person is at a club drinking like two nights before a game. And it's just like, okay, normal.
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But it's like, I feel like me and my teammates will go out one night on an off weekend and we're like, we see a camera and we're like, oh my gosh, what if our coach finds out? What if somebody posts it? And we're not even getting drunk. We're just going to be in public and just dance. Feel the vibes. Yeah, just feel something. Yeah.
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And I think, yeah, it's just annoying. It's just annoying.
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well no no like i appreciate it too even if it makes me uncomfortable i think too like obviously like getting to know the person outside the sport but also like we are going to have a life outside of soccer like if an injury happens or when we retire like you can only play so long so it's like what is our life after that and like if we're only known for soccer it is so hard to pick up the pieces and figure out what you're doing after that so i think for me even growing up like anyone close to me could tell you that
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I've always wanted soccer. Like, I've always wanted to be an Olympic athlete, like World Cup winner, like everything. But through everything, I've always said, I don't want soccer to be my entire bane of existence. Like, I don't want to live, die, breathe soccer. And I know a lot of athletes that do.
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live die breathe soccer is not gonna help me in the long run and then i'm just gonna feel like i lack purpose once i'm done playing yeah and i feel like i'm trying to figure that out but yeah moments like this really help me yeah look at your personality shining you walking around with your ass out waiting for your boyfriend to smack your ass your outfit what's happening your outfit my sweat's dripping down my so i know i'm sweating okay last question what do you want your legacy in the sport to be i feel like my answer is simple just like
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Oh, gosh. I think, well, just a warning. I laugh a lot when I'm trying to like talk about something serious. Okay. So I think with the dad situation in terms of like what I've filtered and what I've talked about, I feel like me and my brother have been very generous with the way that we've talked about it and very unselfish. I think we never want to make him look bad.
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I want to be the athlete that brought the fun to sport. That simple. I don't want to be the one that scored a thousand goals. Like I don't need to be the person that was like, she was the best athlete. I want to be like, she was a great athlete, but she also made it fun to watch and be a part of. Ooh, drop the mic. Period.
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And that is at the cost of kind of holding in a lot and a lot of issues that we've gone through and just like trauma per se.
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So I don't know. I just feel like I've been in a place of going through interviews where people are like, oh, is your dad there? Like, what's your dad feeling? And I feel like I've tried to make it obvious that I don't know. I don't know how he's feeling. I don't know where he is. Like, so for my own sanity.
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getting those questions it frustrates me because i'm like i don't want to blame the interviewers of like okay you don't deep dive into my life but at the same time i've made it clear that he's not present yeah so yeah i guess this is my opportunity to kind of talk more i don't want to say negatively but more realistic about it yeah but i can imagine like i feel like i've sat down with so many people and it's like it's tough when you're trying to protect someone
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Okay. Well, I grew up in Newport Beach, which as everyone kind of knows, it's a very wealthy area. And I loved growing up in Newport. It was amazing, beautiful place. But growing up in a wealthy place when you don't have money is a different struggle. And I think that was really difficult for me, my mom and my brother, just because
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We were going to the schools where everyone had money and it was like, we're going to school. Like in high school, I was sharing a room with my mom, which is like crazy. So it's like just the little things of being a normal high school or a middle schooler where you're like, you want to invite friends over.
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And it's like, not that I'm embarrassed of the way that I grew up, but at the time it was like, I don't want to invite friends over. I don't want them to know I sleep with my mom. Like just like little stuff like that. So yeah.
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Growing up in Newport was good, but hard because like keeping up with the Joneses, I feel like that was kind of a struggle of like, people knew that we didn't have money, but it was more so like, how do we look not completely broke during that time? So yeah, with like soccer and everything, We got help a lot from one of my club coaches, Greg Baker. He kind of set me up and helped me.
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Thank God I was talented or else I don't know where I would be. But he helped me and he gave me those opportunities that I wouldn't have had because I couldn't pay for certain things. So a lot of things...
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we worked for but also in a way were handed just because we were talented so that did help but yeah especially with sports it was very difficult to like travel and go to hotels and do these away trips when we didn't have the money to stay at these like Marriott's like we were at like Holiday Inn like that's what we could afford so it was just hard because I would then find teammates it's okay if like I come and then my mom couldn't come sometimes and it was just
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interesting like we were trying like we did the best at being humble and being grateful for everything but at the same time it was really hard even just like after school like at a cookie truck I'd be like mom can I have a dollar for this cookie like one time and I know that sounds horrible but that has made me I feel like
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more humble now experiencing that being in a wealthy area and not having it we made it through and we're great people and like it worked out so going back though like okay you talking about growing up in Newport and I agree I feel like
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Yeah, I think naturally I've always been a more outgoing person, especially when you get to know me, but I definitely think not having money to do certain things... changed the way that I was with people because I wasn't as confident. And I also couldn't go to things that people were going to. It was like, oh, do you want to go even just going to like fast food and chilling in the parking lot?
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I was like, I don't have money to go to In-N-Out right now or to go to Krispy Kreme. And it was embarrassing to be like, hey, I don't have money. So I think, yeah, through even now, like I have a really close friend from middle school that I'm still friends with. And that's like probably my one friend from middle school and then my friend from high school.
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Um, so that's like my two friends and those are the only people I hung out with. And even through high school, I went to a private school for one year. I was like eating lunch in the bathroom sometimes because me and my brother didn't have the same lunch and he was like my person. So like growing up, I would,
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have all his same teachers like I was a year after him so I would just follow in his footsteps every single time which was annoying because he was really good in school and I was horrible so it was like they loved DJ and like hated me but yeah it was we didn't have the same lunch so I was like didn't have friends to sit with so I like lunch would happen I didn't have money to pay for it at school so then it was like the bell rings and it's like what do I do where do I go like uh do I go to a teacher's room do I just like
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Stay in the cafeteria and act like I'm just like talking to people that I'm not even friends with. Like it was so bizarre.
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Both because I feel like it went both ways. It was weird because for my brother... I feel like in the earlier years, it was harder for him to have friends, but as it went on, it was so easy. Like when we went to high school together, he had so many friends and like, that's who I was going to. And then for me, it was completely different. So it's just weird. And we know like girls are very catty.
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Yes. And like clicky. And I felt like I'd come late. Like everyone had started freshman year. I got their sophomore year. So I had some soccer friends, but the vibes were just different. Like we were friends for soccer, but then in school it was like, okay. Not the same thing.
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So I don't know if it was just like people already had their clicks and I was just like too shy to be like desperate and like try to push my way into certain groups and I'm just not that person. Like if I'm feeling you're not feeling me, then I'd rather sit in the bathroom.
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um yeah so i think it's a mixture which was unfortunate but now looking back it's like funny because all those people are texting me now and it's like interesting uh-huh go fuck yourself yeah um how old were you when your parents got divorced oh gosh um google help i think um i think you were like two i feel like i was dealing with it even when i was like old enough to remember it
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I mean, obviously, I cannot speak for her experiences because she... I feel like she didn't even really have time to think about it just because she had to deal with me and my brother and my sister. That girl. Anyway, I think my mom was dealing with a lot of shit from my dad for so long. And... Divorce was just like a name that that that ship had sailed for the longest time.
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And she knew that we knew that. And it really was like before the divorce happened, my dad was actually helping money wise. So that was the difference of like he would actually give money to my mom and let us kind of live life a little bit. But then when the divorce happened, it was just like, fuck you guys. Like, we're not getting enough money to... We're getting enough money to pay rent. Barely.
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And then we were just... I don't even know how we made it work, but somehow... we were making it happen and it was just crazy.
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My mom was really good at making every situation seem smoother than it actually was. And I think that's what parents do to protect their children. But yeah, I think even being young, it was like, He partied all the time. He has this beach house in Newport or Huntington or wherever, and it was like we tried to live with him, but he's having parties 24-7. He's bringing random bitches in.
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Like, my mom didn't want... She was strong enough to deal with it because even to this day, I still believe that my dad hasn't loved anyone after my mom. Like, I genuinely believe that. I think he doesn't know how to. I think they both felt the same way about each other, but it just... his demons were just too strong for it. But yeah, I think my mom just saw the situation of we love each other.
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It's not going to work. And for my kids, I can't have them seeing you treat me this way, embarrass me this way and have the party scene all the time. You have little babies.