The mother and sister of singer and actress Mariah Carey died on the same day during the weekend of August 24 and 25, 2024, the star announced to the American magazine PeopleThe circumstances surrounding the deaths of Patricia Carey (née Hickey), a former opera singer aged 87, and Alison Carey, aged 63, remain unknown at this time.
“My heart is broken to have lost my mother this weekend,” said Mariah Carey. “Sadly, in a terrible twist of fate, my sister also lost her life on the same day. II feel blessed to have been able to spend the last week with my mother before she passed away.“I thank everyone for their love and support and ask that my privacy be respected during this impossible time,” the 55-year-old singer concluded in a statement released by the magazine.
Alison Carey has had a particularly difficult life. The singer’s older sister spent her teenage years with their father while Mariah lived with her mother. Alison Carey got married at 15 and got pregnant at that early age, forcing her to stop her studies. After years of difficulties between drugs and prostitutionAlison remarried and had a second child. Infected with HIV in the late 1980s, Alison lived very estranged from her sister Mariah for decades. Patricia Carey was granted temporary custody of one of Alison’s sons in the 1990s, a custody Alison contested in the media at the time.
Mariah Carey and her mother have maintained a tumultuous relationship and rich according to the singer who described their bond in her memoirs: “Our relationship was a thorny rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A complicated love binds my heart to my mother’s.” If Alison has distanced herself from the rest of her family, Mariah and her mother Patricia have never broken the bond.
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