American soccer star Trinity Rodman spoke out against her father, former NBA champion Dennis Rodman, in an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast this week.

Trinity, who plays for the Washington Spirit of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), reflected on the strained relationship she has with her father, despite his efforts to maintain a good public image. She insisted she finds it “frustrating” when she does interviews and is asked about her father because she harbors “trauma” about him.

“I think we never want to make him look bad, and that comes at the expense of holding on to many, many issues that we’ve been through and just trauma itself,” she said in the episode. “I just feel like I was in a place where I went through interviews where people were like, ‘Oh, was your dad there? What does your father feel?’ and I feel like I’m trying to make it clear that I don’t know.

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Trinity Rodman poses during a USWNT portrait studio session on February 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Brad Smith/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images for USSF)

Trinity says she sometimes even gets frustrated with herself for showing compassion to her father, especially when he tries to parade his children in public.

“I“It’s just hard because I’m still trying to be honest and I’m still trying to have compassion for him, which is frustrating for me because in reality I think he’s an extremely selfish person,” she said.

“I think everything was always about him. He’s been through shit, but at the same time I think he loves the spotlight. He loves the cameras. He loves bringing his kids on stage and being like, ‘Oh, those are my kids.’ All that stuff and even the mind… the mind, but emotionally he did that to me, oh my God.”

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Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman (2) with her father, basketball legend Dennis Rodman, after a game between North Carolina Courage and Washington Spirit at Audi Field on November 7, 2021 in Washington, DC (Tony Quinn/ISI Photos/Getty Images)

Trinity added that she didn’t save her father’s number in her phone and that they often wouldn’t speak for months. But despite their long gaps in communication, she claimed that he would still reach out to her to invite her to appear alongside him on a reality TV show.

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Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman (2) with her father, basketball legend Dennis Rodman, after a game between North Carolina Courage and Washington Spirit at Audi Field on November 7, 2021 in Washington, DC (Tony Quinn/ISI Photos/Getty Images)

According to her, just hearing his voice is “painful” and when he calls her he is often drunk.

At one point, Trinity said her father tried to call her from another phone number in Texas and then left her a voicemail that was too long for her to feel comfortable listening to.

“He tried to call me and it’s a Texas number. I didn’t know he lived in Texas, so this is news to me. So I just think it’s a spam risk, all that stuff, and I’m like, ”Okay. They’re just spam calls. I get these all the time, so I ignored it, and then I see voicemails of it, and then I look and hear it for a second, I was like, “F—,” and I think I heard it. It was one Like that for a second, because I saw that the voicemail was 40 seconds long, and it was like a godsend for me that or not, and I just said, ‘No,’ she said.

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