Mariah Carey has faced criticism for not reaching out to her estranged older sister, Alison Carey, before she died last weekend, with a close friend of the terminally ill woman telling media outlets that she kept hoping she could repair their broken relationship. “I know it was her dying wish if she could’ve at least had a conversation with Mariah,” Alison Carey’s friend and healthcare proxy, David Baker, . But he said the Grammy-winning pop star didn’t at least call to check on her sister before her death, even though she should have been aware that she had been in hospice care in upstate New York the past month, Baker said.
For Carey’s part, she explained her reasons for cutting off contact with Alison, 63, in her 2020 memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” according to the Daily Mail and . Over the past 20 years, the tabloids have reported on Alison Carey’s struggle with drug addiction and her arrests for prostitution. Carey wrote that she became prey to her sister’s self-destructive choices.
She shared a memory of being 12 years old when her then-20-year-old sister, “drugged me with Valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine ...
and tried to sell me out to a pimp.” Carey, 55, faced a double-tragedy over the weekend. While Alison Carey died shortly after midnight Saturday, the sisters’ mother, Patricia Carey, 87, died later that day.
“My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend,” Mariah said . “Sadly, in a tragic tur.