“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 said in a statement to People.
FILE – Mariah Carey appears with her mother Patricia and daughter Monroe during a ceremony honoring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Aug. 5, 2015. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Mom Patricia and sister Alison had complicated relationships with the 55-year-old singer, as noted in Carey’s memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey.”
Carey asked for privacy from fans and the public during this trying time, telling PEOPLE she was grateful she got to spend the last week of her mother’s life with her.
Patricia was an opera singer and was previously married to Alfred Roy Carey, the singer’s father. The parents divorced when the “Obsessed” singer was 3.
Carey detailed her complicated relationship with her mother and her sister in her 2020 memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” where she wrote that she and her mother often clashed and accused her sister of putting her in unsafe situations as a child.
FILE – Mariah Carey performs at the 82nd Annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony on Dec. 3, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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Still, Carey maintained contact with her mother and even recorded a duet of “O Come All Ye Faithful/Hallelujah Chorus” for the singer’s second Christmas album in 2010.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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