American singer Mariah Carey spoke out after she lost her mother, Patricia and sister Alison on the same day over the past weekend.
MARIAH CAREY LOSES MOM AND SISTER ON THE SAME DAY
Touch My Body hitmaker Mariah Carey, who has a pair of twins with TV host Nick Cannon, lost both her mom and sister on the same day over the past weekend. Mariah told People that she is heartbroken after losing both her mother, Patricia and sister Alison on the same day.
“My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day,” the Grammy-winning singer, 55, said in an exclusive statement to People.
She went on to say that she felt blessed to spend the last week with her mother before she had passed away.
“I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed,” she continued.
“I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time,” she added.
The cause of death of both Mariah’s mom and sister have not yet been revealed.
THE SINGER, HER MOM AND SIBLINGS
Mariah had a complex relationship with her mom and sister. Patricia was married to Alfred Roy Carey, and together they had three children – Alison, Mariah and Morgan. The pair later divorced when Mariah was three years old.
“Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A complicated love tethers my heart to my mother’s,” she wrote in her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, published in 2020.
“Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities. It’s never been only black-and-white — it’s been a whole rainbow of emotions,” she wrote.
However, Mariah still maintained a relationship with her mother, who she expressed, did her best. While she also stated that it was “emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact” with both siblings, Alison and Morgan.