Ex-NFL star Cam Newton gets candid about marriage expectations, giving woman a ring

Cam Newton was a one-time NFL MVP, astir led the Carolina Panthers to the franchise’s archetypal Super Bowl rubric and became a pundit connected a assortment of sports topics.

But successful caller weeks, helium seems to person pivoted to being a narration adept of sorts.

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Cam Newton #1 of squad J Balvin looks connected against squad Druski during the Super Bowl LX Celebrity Flag shot crippled connected YouTube astatine Moscone Center South connected Feb. 7, 2026 successful San Francisco, California. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

Newton appeared connected the "Talk Les Show" with Courtside Les. The 2 talked astir matrimony and relationships extensively connected the podcast with Les asking the erstwhile prima backmost a fewer hypotheticals astir having a semipermanent partner. She asked Newton if helium would privation to beryllium joined to anyplace betwixt 1 and 5 women if it were socially acceptable.

He replied, "No."

"It’s conscionable emotions. I privation to beryllium astir who privation to beryllium astir me. So, if it’s 5 oregon six oregon 1 … I similar volunteers. I don’t similar hostages," helium said, clarifying that helium didn’t judge matrimony was a hostage situation. "I don’t deliberation it to beryllium anything. I similar volunteers, not hostages. I privation radical astir maine who privation to beryllium astir maine and I privation them astir me."

Newton said helium was good with ne'er being joined arsenic agelong arsenic helium recovered his beingness partner.

He said that helium didn’t request to person a authorities papers saying, officially, that helium was joined to the idiosyncratic helium wanted to beryllium with for the remainder of his life.

Then-Carolina Panthers backmost Cam Newton (1) walks connected the tract during the 2nd fractional against the Miami Dolphins astatine Hard Rock Stadium connected Nov. 28, 2021. (Jasen Vinlove/USA TODAY Sports)

But Les pressed him a bit. She asked whether Newton would springiness the pistillate helium wanted to beryllium with a ringing adjacent if they weren’t joined and adjacent if it was her "favorite finger."

"What I conscionable said, question everything – why? … Well if that’s your favourite digit erstwhile I met you, you didn’t person thing connected your digit erstwhile I met you so. It looked bully then, it inactive looks bully now," helium said.

Newton suggested that helium wouldn’t privation his narration to crook into a "gift-giving contest" and if it was a sparkly ringing that she wanted, and the terms constituent didn’t matter, helium would bring her to a gumball machine.

"Are we doing beingness unneurotic oregon is this a competition? So you’re fundamentally saying if I don’t springiness you a ring, you’re not going to emotion maine arsenic much," helium said. "You tin person a ringing with nary emotion and emotion with nary ring.

"I privation you to perceive and play this backmost due to the fact that this is however astir women sound, ‘I conscionable privation a ring, I conscionable privation a ring, I conscionable privation a ring.’ Well, why? ‘Because of marriage, due to the fact that of matrimony … Find wherever the ringing was successful the Bible. … I’m not going to beryllium bulled into giving a acquisition due to the fact that that’s what it sounds like. It sounds similar you’re trying to country a cat."

Carolina Panthers backmost Cam Newton yells "I'm back!" aft scoring a rushing touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals successful a crippled successful 2021. (IMAGN)

Newton’s latest remarks came aft helium was connected a abstracted podcast talking astir the "value" of women arsenic they person much children.

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Newton antecedently defended himself for saying successful an interrogation that women should cognize however to navigator and "when to beryllium quiet."

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