Mariah Carey reveals her mom, Patricia, and sister, Alison, died on the same day: ‘My heart is broken’
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.”
Nonetheless, she dedicated her memoir, at least in part, to her mother, writing, “And to Pat, my mother, who, through it all, I do believe actually did the best she could.”
She added, “I will love you the best I can, always.”
Carey also invited Patricia to perform a duet of “O Come, All Ye Faithful” with her on her 2010 ABC Christmas special, “Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to You.”
Relations with Alison, however, were thornier.
In her memoir, the “Always Be My Baby” singer wrote that when the book was published, she found it “emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact” with Alison or her brother Morgan.
Carey went on to allege her sister abused her as a child. She claimed that Alison burned her by throwing boiling tea on her and, when she was 12, allegedly drugged her with Valium. Alison would have been around 20 at the time.
In 2021, Alison sued Carey over the allegations made in the book, claiming “intentional infliction of immense emotional distress caused by defendant’s heartless, vicious, vindictive, despicable and totally unnecessary public humiliation of defendant’s’ already profoundly damaged older sister.”
Alison asked for $1.25 million in damages.
In her suit, Alison said Carey “used her status as a public figure to attack her penniless sister, generating sensational headlines describing lurid claims to promote sales of her book.”
Carey’s older sister described herself as “profoundly and personally damaged,” stating that she struggled with alcohol abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, spine and digestive disorders, a traumatic brain injury, short-term memory problems and vision problems following a 2015 “unsolved home invasion.”
In court documents, Carey’s older sister also repeated claims she made in a 2020 court summons, alleging that her mom made her watch adults engage in sexual acts and satanic ritual sacrifices when she was a child.
