Eddie Murphy Gushes About Being A Dad Of 10 Kids: “I Don’t Have One Bad Seed”

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Eddie Murphy says he loves being a dad to 10 kids.

The 59-year-old comedian said in an interview with The Mirror: “I am so blessed with my kids. I don’t have one bad seed. I don’t have any like ‘Oh, you are the one.’ I don’t have any of that. My kids are so great, normal people — and nobody is like the Hollywood jerk kid.”

“I am going to be 60 in April, and I have all these babies,” he added. “I love fatherhood.”

Murphy’s kids range from age 2 to 31.

He and his fiance Paige Butcher have a two-year-old son, Max, and a four-year-old daughter, Izzy.

He shares five kids with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy – daughters Bella, 19, and Zola, 21, Shayne, 26, Myles, 28, and Bria, 31. Bella starred alongside her father in Coming 2 America.

His oldest son is Eric, 31, whom he had with Paulette McNeely. He has another son, Christian, with Tamara Hood and 13-year-old daughter Angel with Spice Girl Mel B.

Murphy became a grandfather in July 2019 when his son Myles had a daughter.

“My kids are smart and are trying to do stuff. I am blessed with my kids. I really, really got lucky,” he said.

Murphy added that he now puts fatherhood before everything else.

“The whole idea of being out there and doing three movies a year, that s**t is over. I found over and over again, and along the way, I realized that if you put your children first, you never make a bad decision.

“When you hit a crossroads moment, or you have got some s**t, you think, ‘Well, what is best for my children?’ If you go that route, then you never make a bad decision,” Murphy said.