Mariah Carey announces her mother and sister died on the same day: ‘My heart is broken’

Mariah Carey is grieving the loss of her mother, Patricia, and her sister, Alison, who both passed away on the same day. The Grammy-winning singer shared the devastating news on August 26, expressing her profound sorrow.

‘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.

‘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,’ she added.

Details regarding the causes of their deaths have not been disclosed. People Magazine was the first to report the news, along with Carey's statement.

More about Mariah Carey’s mother and sister

Patricia was an opera singer and was previously married to Alfred Roy Carey, Mariah Carey’s father. The couple divorced when the singer was three years old.

In her 2020 memoir, ‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey’, the singer opened up about her complicated relationships with her mother and sister. She described frequent clashes with her mother and accused her sister of putting her in dangerous situations during childhood.

‘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,’ Carey wrote about her mother in the memoir.

Regarding her sister, Carey shared that, for a time, it was ‘emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact’ with her.

Despite these challenges, Carey remained in touch with her mother, and they even recorded a duet of ‘O Come All Ye Faithful/Hallelujah Chorus’ for her second Christmas album in 2010.

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