Mariah Carey has suffered a tremendous loss times two. The singer, 55, has revealed that her mom, Patricia, and her older sister, Alison, both passed away on the same day over the weekend. “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 to The Post. “I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed,” she continued. “I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.
” Carey did not reveal any other details about her mom and her sister’s passing. Their cause of death is not known at this time. Based on the available information, it appears that Alison was 63 and Patricia was 84, though their ages have not been confirmed.
Patricia was a Juilliard-trained opera singer and vocal coach. After marrying Carey’s father, Alfred Roy Carey, she had three children — daughters Alison and Mariah and son Morgan. Patricia and Alfred divorced when the Grammy winner was just three years old.
Carey’s relationships with her sister and her mother were strained at times. In her 2020 memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” the singer wrote, “Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities. It’s never been only black-and-white — it’s been a whole rainbow of emotions.
” “Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment,” she added. “A complicated love tethers my heart to my mother’s.” This is a developing story.
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