Mariah Carey's mother and sister die on the same day
Mariah Carey’s mother Patricia and sister Alison died on the same day over the weekend, the US singer has said in a statement.
“My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend,” Carey said on Monday. “Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.”
The Grammy-winning singer said she felt blessed to have spent time with her mother in the week before her death and asked for privacy.
No further details were released about the causes of death.
Patricia, 87, was a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish-American descent.
Patricia, who was previously married to Alfred Roy Carey, was a Juilliard-trained opera singer and vocal coach.
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The couple welcomed Alison, Mariah and son Morgan but later divorced when the Hero singer was 3 years old.
Mariah's relationship with her mother was complicated throughout her life.
In Carey's 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the five-time Grammy Award-winning singer detailed her complicated relationship with her mother, saying it had caused her "so much pain and confusion”.
Carey, 55, said competition had come between them. Professional jealousy "comes with the territory of success, but when the person is your mother and the jealousy is revealed at such a tender age, it’s particularly painful", she added.
"Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment," continued Mariah in the memoir.
In 2010, they came together for ABC's Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to You special and performed a duet of "O Come All Ye Faithful/ Hallelujah Chorus."
Mariah also dedicated her memoir in part to Patricia.
"A complicated love tethers my heart to my mother's."
Despite their complicated relationship, Mariah didn't cut things off with her mother.
But she also spoke of the deep love she had had for her mother, writing in the dedication: “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.”
Carey’s relationship with her older sister Alison, 63, was also complex.
In her memoir, she wrote of being estranged from her and her brother Morgan, saying that it was “emotionally and physically safer for me to not have any contact”.
Alison sued Carey for $1.2m (£909,780) following the release of the memoir for "immense emotional distress", calling it "vindictive".
Carey is regarded as one of the most successful singers globally.
Her holiday single All I Want For Christmas Is You is the best-selling Christmas song by a female artist of all time.
She holds the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles by a solo artist at 19 songs, has sold over 220 million records worldwide, and served as a judge on the competition show American Idol.
The singer’s father, Alfred, died in 2002 of cancer at the age of 72.
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