Tragic news came on August 26 when Maria Carey confirmed that she lost her mother Patricia and estranged sister Alison on the same day over the weekend. The singer has been very very open about the complicated relationship she had with her family, but said in a statement to People , that she spent the last week with her mom before she passed. Amid her passing, fans are reflecting on Carey's 2020 memoir "The Meaning of Mariah Carey" which she dedicated to her children Roc and Roe, her ancestors, and Pat, her mother.
The short note in the preface to her late mom reads, "And to Pat, my mother, who, through it all, I do believe did the best she could. I will love you the best I can, always." Revelations in the book The word "mother" is used 260 times in Carey's memoir, and she is very candid and open about their complex relationship.
Here are just a few of the alleged stories. "I was a little girl with very few memories of a big brother who protected me. More often, I felt I had to protect myself from him, and sometimes I would find myself protecting my mother from him too," she writes.
Her mother had a tense relationship with her brother Morgan Carey explains that her parents divorced when she was 3, and she moved into a house in Northport, Long Island with her mom and brother. But they did not have a good relationship, and she recalled a time when she was six when she had to call the police because her brother pushed her so hard against the wall her mom fell limp on the ground..