Mariah Carey announced the death of her mother and sister to the American magazine People. Both women died last weekend, on the same day. A very complicated period for the singer.
It’s a tragedy that Mariah Carey has been experiencing for two days. Indeed, the singer is in mourning following the disappearance of the two women from her life. In the columns of the American site People , she reveals that her mother and her sister died on the same day. “I am heartbroken to have lost my mother last weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day ,” said the 55-year-old artist. She adds: “I feel lucky to have been able to spend the last week with my mother before she passed away.”
Mariah Carey in mourning, she asks for respect for her “private life”
However, the interpreter of All I Want For Christmas Is You does not specify the circumstances of the death of his mother Patricia , nor of his sister Alison: “I appreciate the love, the support and the respect for my private life during this impossible time . “Mariah Carey and her mother Patricia have long had a complicated relationship. In the book The Meaning of Mariah Carey, her memoir published in 2020, she stated: ” My relationship with my mother was full of contradictions and competing realities. It was never just black and white, it was everything a rainbow of emotions (…) Our relationship is a thorny thread of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment “.
Her sister Alison had filed a complaint against her
As for her relationship with her sister Alison, there too the two women encountered difficulties getting along. Ten years older than Mariah Carey, she did not hesitate to file a complaint against her following the publication of her memoirs in which she declared: “ When I was 12, my sister drugged me with valium , gave me a small nail filled with cocaine, gave me a third degree burn and tried to sell me to a pimp . Alison then criticized him for “using his status as a public figure to attack his penniless sister, generating sensationalist headlines describing shocking accusations to promote sales of his book .” She demanded 1.25 million dollars, or 1 million euros.
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