Inside Mariah Carey Extremely Traumatic Family Life: Deaths, Estrangements, Legal Battles... and 'Satanic Sex Rituals'

In an exclusive statement to People in August, Mariah Carey confirmed the deaths of her mother, Patricia, and sister, Alison.

She said: "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.

"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."

The We Belong Together singer did not disclose the cause of the deaths, but she soon opened up about her rough weeks after the loss.

The Grammy winner had not seen her sister before her death, Alison's friend David Baker said.

David revealed: "We saw it coming, but it's still a shock", adding his late pal had "a tough life" prior to her demise, "She got ill fairly quickly and a month later, she's gone".

After their parents, Patricia and Alfred, divorced, Mariah stayed with the matriarch while her siblings began living with their father. Growing up, the "It's a Wrap" singer thought Alison and their brother, Morgan, resented her as they felt her life was easier because she grew up with their mother.

In her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the 55-year-old songstress called Alison "the most brilliant and broken person I have ever known" and the "deeply wounded." She alleged her sister was a drug addict who encouraged her to try substances as a child.

They grew farther away from each other when Alison sued Mariah in 2021, accusing her of causing immense emotional distress due to the baseless allegations in the book.

The court documents stated: "Already struggling with the unspeakable trauma of her childhood and having her own children abandon her, she has become severely depressed and uncharacteristically tearful since the publication of defendant's book and now struggles, after a long time clean, with alcohol abuse."

Even Morgan filed a lawsuit against Mariah for being "falsely characterized" in the memoir.

The defamation case read: "Her attempt to falsely characterize plaintiff as equally violent as their father, and her subsequent commentary on police relations with Black people was only the beginning of defendant Mariah Carey's desperate attempt to vilify plaintiff, play the victim card and curry favor with the Black Lives Matter movement."

After a judge dismissed most of the claims, Morgan has remained estranged from Mariah.

The "All I Want for Christmas Is You" hitmaker detailed her painful and traumatic childhood both in her memoir and during her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey on the Apple TV+ series The Oprah Conversation.

One of her revelations was about her mother telling her "you will never be as good as me" as a child.

Mariah also revisited the moment she found herself in the backseat of a police car after her mother called 911 and asked them to take her to a facility.

She recalled: "Bottom line is, there was a code-switching that happened, and a power shift that was immediate. It was immediate and she was in charge.

"And rather than say, 'You know what, we're OK, I am here, taking care of my daughter, she's tired, somebody called the cops by mistake, whatever,' it was like, 'No, because you defied me, this is what is going to happen.'"

Speaking with People in 1993, Mariah revealed she began having a good relationship with her father after her parents' divorce. Alfred reportedly spent his weekends with her, but the setup changed when her career took off.

She said: "Gradually, ‘next Sunday' turned into a month of Sundays. I had to let go of our Sundays so I could manifest my own day in the sun."

Alfred died of bile duct cancer in July 2002.

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