Mariah Carey’s late sister Alison entered hospice care weeks before her death, according to a new source. The US hitmaker announced on Monday that both her sister and their mother Patricia, 87, had died on the same day. Carey said in a statement announcing the news to People : “My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.” While both official causes of death remain unknown, a source close to the family, Dave Baker, who was a carer for Alison Carey, has revealed the extent of her health battles. “Alison was on home hospice care for the last three weeks of her life,” Baker told the US Sun.
He revealed that Alison “had a problem with internal organs,” but went into no further detail. “Beneath a tough exterior Alison was a highly intelligent, warm, and sensitive person,” Baker went on. “I have known her for nine years and as her friend and, in recent months, her carer I will miss her greatly.
“Farewell Alison. May you now find peace, your tortured soul forever free from earthly pain.” Carey’s relationship with sister Alison also appeared to be complex.
In the memoir The Meaning Of Mariah Carey, she described it as “emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact” with Alison or her brother Morgan. Later speaking with Oprah Winfrey about her memoir, she called her sister “troubled” and .