Mariah Carey is mourning the loss of her mother Patricia and older sister Alison, who died on the same day over the weekend, the pop star said.
“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 Carey, 55. multiple Departures.
“I feel blessed to have been able to spend the last week with my mother before she passed away. I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time,” she added.
No further details were provided, including the causes of death for Patricia and Alison or the exact dates of their deaths.
Patricia was 87 when she died. She was a Juilliard-trained opera singer and voice teacher who helped inspire Carey to pursue singing.
“Well, my mother tells a story,” Carey said. ‘CBS’ Sunday morning In 2009. “She said she was doing Rigoletto“And she would rehearse a part over and over again, and then she would mess up. And I said, ‘No, that’s it,’ and I sang it to her.”
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Carey said her mother decided, “OK, she definitely has special hearing. And let me encourage her in this.”
But mother and daughter also had a complicated relationship over the years.
“Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been filled with contradictions and competing realities. It has never been just black and white, it has been a whole rainbow of emotions,” Carey wrote in her 2020 memoir, The meaning of Mariah Carey.
“Our relationship is a thorny rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment,” The singer continued: “A complicated love unites my heart with my mother’s.”
The memoir was dedicated in part to Patricia, “my mother, who, despite everything, I believe did the best she could,” Carey wrote.
The singer’s relationship with her sister Alison was also strained. Carey wrote in her 2020 memoir that, at the time, it was “emotionally and physically safer for me to not have any contact” with Alison or her brother Morgan.
Alison sued Carey in 2021 For intentionally causing emotional distress over the memoir, alleging that her sister used the book as a means “to humiliate and embarrass her,” CNN reports. Carey never filed a legal response to the suit.
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