Mariah Carey's representative has confirmed that the singer's mother, Patricia, and sister, Allison, died on the same day last weekend. diverse.
“My heart is broken as I lost my mother last weekend,” Carey said in a joint statement. “Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister also lost her life on the same day.” diverse“I am so grateful to have been able to spend the last week with my mother before she passed away. I appreciate everyone’s love, support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.”
The exact cause or date of Patricia and Allison's death is not yet known.
Before having Maria and her two older siblings, Allison and Morgan, Patricia was an opera singer and vocal coach who trained at Juilliard. She was married to Alfred Roy Carey, but they divorced when Carey was 3 years old.
Carey’s relationship with her mother was full of ups and downs. “Like so many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother was filled with contradictions and competing truths. It was never black and white — it was a rainbow of emotions,” the 55-year-old Grammy winner 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. A complicated love that binds my heart to my mother’s.”
Carrie mentioned her mother in the dedications of her memoir, writing: “And to Pat, my mother, who I believe did the best she could despite everything that happened. I will always love you the best I can.”
In 2010, Maria and her mother gave a memorable performance together on the ABC Christmas special “Maria Maria: Merry Christmas to You,” singing a duet of “O Come All Ye Faithful/Hallelujah Choir.”
Carrie also had a strained relationship with her sister Allison, which she recently described in Oprah Winfrey's interview series on Apple TV+ as “turbulent” and “traumatized.” In her book, Carrie wrote that it was “emotionally and physically safer for me to not communicate” with Allison and her brother Morgan.
People magazine was the first to report the news.
