U.S. women’s national team star Trinity Rodman detailed a fractured relationship with her father, NBA champion Dennis Rodman, who she said was both emotionally distant and created financial difficulties for his children during their youth.
The soccer player has been reluctant to talk about her father in public, alluding to a complicated relationship with the retired basketball star. On an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast that was published Wednesday, though, Rodman finally went into length about her father. “He’s not a dad,” she said. “Maybe by blood, but nothing else.”
“With the dad situation, in terms of 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,” Rodman said. “I think we never want to make him look bad, and that is at the cost of holding in a lot, and a lot of issues we’ve gone through and just like, trauma, per se.”
Rodman, alongside her older bother D.J., and her mother Michelle Moyer, lived with her father in the early years of her life, but his lifestyle forced Moyer to move the family out of his Southern California home.
“My mom was really good at making every…
