'Heartbroken' Mariah Carey confirms death of her mother and sister on same day

Virgin Radio

27 Aug 2024, 09:07

Mariah Carey has spoken out about how she has been left “heartbroken” following the deaths of her mother, Patricia, and sister, Alison, on the same day.

The multi-Grammy award-winning singer revealed her loss in a statement given on Sunday (25th August) to People.

“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,” Carey shared.

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She continued: “I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed. I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.”

No further details about Carey's mom or sisters deaths have been released.

Over the course of her successful career, the ‘Emotions’ singer has spoken candidly about having complicated a relationship with her mother, a former opera singer, and her sister Alison.

Opening up about her relationship with Patricia in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey – which she dedicated in part to her mother – the ‘All I Want for Christmas’ singer said: “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.

“Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A complicated love tethers my heart to my mother's,” she added.

When she was a child, Patricia allegedly told Carey: “You should only hope that one day you become half the singer I am,” a comment which the record-breaking artist later admitted: “Still, to this day… haunts and hurts me.”

However, her book’s dedication to Patricia said: “And to Pat, my mother, who, through it all, I do believe actually did the best she could. I will love you the best I can, always.”

When it came to her complex relationship with her sister Alison, Carey wrote in the same memoir that at that time, it was “emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact” with her, or their brother Morgan.

The thoughts of everyone at Virgin Radio go out to Mariah Carey and her family at this difficult time.