Mariah Carey mourns the loss of her mother and sister, who died on the same day. She had a difficult relationship with both of them.
Mariah Carey is currently dealing with a double blow of fate: As the singer announced, both her mother Patricia and her big sister Alison died over the weekend – on the same day. Nothing is known about the cause of death yet. She is happy that she was able to spend the last week with her mother before she died, said Carey. But the fact that they were so close in the end is not a given.
In her 2020 biography “Mariah: The Story of My Life,” Carey described how complicated her relationship with her family was – especially with her mother Patricia. “Like many things in my life, my journey with my mother is full of contradictions and competing truths. It was never black and white, but a whole rainbow of emotions,” she says. The relationship with her brought with it a lot of pain and confusion.
Carey grew up with her older sister and brother, mainly with her mother, and only saw her father Alfred, an engineer, on weekends. Her parents separated when she was three years old. Their marriage was strained by racism. Patricia, a white opera singer, was even disinherited by her mother because she had married a black man, Alfred.
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“Our relationship is a tightrope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment,” Carey described her relationship with her mother in the book. Patricia Carey was obviously unable to deal with her daughter’s success. Her mother once told her that she would be lucky if she ever became half as good a singer as she was, world star Mariah Carey recalled.
Carey has even cut off contact with her siblings completely. Therapy helped her to come to terms with the difficult family situation. On advice, she renamed her family members and redesigned the family. “My mother became Pat to me, Morgen became my ex-brother, Alison my ex-sister. I had to stop expecting them to one day miraculously become the mom, big sister and big brother I dreamed of,” wrote Carey.
Nevertheless, mother and daughter at least grew closer and were able to recognize and admire each other’s talent. They recorded in 2010. Mariah Carey also dedicated her biography to her mother, with lines that sounded very conciliatory: “For Pat, my mother, who I truly believe always did her best despite everything. I will always love you as much as I can.”
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