Mariah Carey Once Shared She Kept Wishing Someone Kidnapped Her When She Was Married

Mariah Carey once opened up about how she first dealt with the idea that getting married wasn't like how she thought it would be.

Mariah Carey found it quickly that she might’ve made a mistake getting married the first time. So much so she was already fantasizing about getting whisked away by someone else deep into her marriage.

Mariah Carey wanted to be rescued from her first marriage

Carey had far from a good time after she first married music executive Tommy Mottola in 1993. What little romance she felt with the former music executive gradually deteriorated over the years they were together. Carey claimed that she was initially discouraged by how controlling Mottola became. In an interview on CBS Sunday Morning (via Yahoo), the singer reflected on a time when she tried to leave home to get food with a friend. But Mottola allegedly objected to the idea.

“I was like, yeah, let’s go for a ride because it was normal for most people to just leave their house and go literally five minutes down the street to get French fries or just take a ride,” Carey said. “But it became a huge drama.”

“You have to laugh at it,” she added. “At the time, it wasn’t funny. But in retrospect, was it worth it? Couldn’t you just have let me go?”

Mottola’s actions were so extreme back then that Carey compared the executive to a “controlling father or warden.”

Carey’s feelings towards Mottola had only gotten worse over the years to the point where she wished someone would snatch her.

“I longed for someone to come kidnap me back then. I used to fantasise about that a lot. I’d have my pocketbook with me at all times in case I had to make an escape,” she once said in an interview with Allure (via Hindustan Times).

But it seemed Carey grew tired of waiting for a potential kidnapper to sweep her off her feet. Carey and Mottola would divorce in 1998 after five years.

Mariah Carey felt Nick Cannon kidnapped her

Cannon seemed to be the partner Carey was waiting for the entire time without realizing it. Cannon always had a crush on the artist from afar. He’d broadcast his feelings for Carey whenever the opportunity presented itself. Eventually, his words made their way to Carey herself, who confronted the rapper about his crush at a Teen Choice Awards.

“She had heard me speaking all of these positive, secret little nothings about her in interviews, and I remember seeing her backstage at the Teen Choice Awards, and she stops right in front of me. She’s like, ‘I heard all those nice things you been saying about me.’ I was like, ‘They’re true! Just give me an opportunity to make them come true!’ And she smiled, and they floated her off,” Cannon told People.

The interaction only reassured Cannon that he actually had a chance with Carey. And his crush was rewarded when she invited him to be a part of a music video she was shooting. But it wasn’t just any video shoot, as it would be a project tailored to Cannon’s specific interests.

‘‘Not only do I have another video for you to be in and to be my love interest for, but I want you to direct it,’” Cannon remembered Carey telling him.

Their interactions would eventually lead to the pair becoming an item. After less than two months of dating, Cannon felt he found the love of his life. He surprised Carey in a way that reminded her of her old kidnapper fantasy.

“He sort of kidnapped me and took me on a helicopter ride. Then he re-proposed,” she once said in an interview with Elle (via NBC New York).

Their marriage lasted a bit longer than Carey’s marriage with Mottola. The two wore their wedding rings for six years before divorcing in 2016. But they might’ve been on better terms with each other than Carey and Mottola were after their split. Cannon still had high praise for his ex-wife.

“I’m in awe of her strength,” he said. “Every family has to deal with something, but through love and understanding is how anyone gets through any adversity. And that’s what we’ve always been about.”