Basketball icon Dennis Rodman’s estranged daughter Trinity wants nothing to do with the party animal playboy — not even hearing him mentioned as her dad — because she says he’s ignored her most of her life and cruelly broken her heart again and again with false promises to get closer.
Recently, the 23-year-old soccer star was fuming when a BBC announcer at the Wimbledon tennis matches mentioned on-air that she was in attendance — because her beau, Ben Shelton, was playing — and was the hoops great’s daughter.
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“My dad is not even in MY life, no need to bring him up during HIS [Ben’s] matches when I don’t even want him talked about during mine,” fumes the beauty on a Instagram story.
Trinity and brother Dennis “DJ” Rodman, 24, are children of the five-time NBA champion with third wife Michelle Moyer, who divorced the wildman after eight years of marriage in 2012 when Trinity was 10.
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Furious Trinity, a forward with the Washington Spirit of the National Women’s Soccer League and the U.S. national team, slams the tattooed 64-year-old basketball legend on Call Her Daddy podcast as an absentee dad and “alcoholic,” who “wasn’t really a father” and keeps breaking her heart by promising a relationship and then vanishing.
She’s so angry, she spits: “He’s not a dad. Maybe by blood, but nothing else.”
At one time, she says she and her brother “tried to live with him … But he’s having parties 24/7, bringing random b*tches in. He loves the spotlight.”
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She recalls Dennis showing up out of the blue at a 2021 Washington Spirit soccer match and how furious she was because it distracted her, although they won in the end.
Afterward, the 6-foot-8 hoops icon hugged her. “He was like, ‘I want to see you soon, I’m in DC,’” she recalls. “I was like, ‘OK.’ And after that, radio silence.
“I didn’t see him again until like, this year.”
Trinity was once again heartbroken and felt foolish for hoping for a relationship with the former NBA star.
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“Stupid me for thinking that was going to be some new spark,” she says. “That was me every single time. He would come around, I would be like: ‘OK, here it is again. We’re going to start something. He’s going to be around.’
“Boom, months and months and months. This time it was years. And I was just like, OK, cool.”