Mariah Carey: Mother and sister die on the same day

In just one day, Mariah Carey lost both her mother Patricia and her sister Alison. The singer confirmed this in a statement. “I am heartbroken to have lost my mother this past weekend,” Carey explains. And continued: “Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.”

Mariah Carey was able to spend a few more days with her mother

“I feel blessed to have been able to spend the last week with my mother before she passed away,” said Carey. She is grateful for everyone’s love and support and hopes that her privacy will not be violated during this difficult time. Carey has not yet made any other comment on the matter. There is also currently no information about the cause of death of her mother and sister. According to People magazine, the mother was 87 years old, and Carey’s older sister Alison died at the age of 63.

Carey had worked her way to the top from a broken family. In her 2020 autobiography “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” she described a difficult, poor childhood marked by neglect and racism. Her mother was of Irish descent and earned her money as a singer, her father, who died in 2002, had African-American and Venezuelan roots and was an engineer. The couple separated a few years after Carey was born. She has an older brother.

In her memoirs, the singer wrote about a complicated relationship with her mother and only very sporadic contact with the family. In February 2019, she posted a photo of herself as a little girl with her mother on Instagram – as a birthday greeting “to a true diva – my mother, Patricia Carey”.