Mariah Carey Loses Her Mother Patricia and Sister Alison on the Same Day: “I’m Heartbroken”
It’s a tragic moment for Mariah Carey: on the same day she lost her mother Patricia, 87, and her sister Alison, 63. The singer confirmed to People: “MMy heart is broken to have lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister passed away the same day.”
The causes of death are not yet known; the only certainty is that Mariah Carey was at her mother’s side in the last days of her life: “I feel lucky to have been able to spend the last week with her before she died.”
As for her sister Alison, the newspapers wrote that she was hospitalized in a facility, and her lawyer, David Baker, spoke of a health problem for which there was nothing more to be done: “We knew it would happen; it couldn’t go any further.”
The singer’s relationship with the two women was not very good. Her mother, Patricia Hickey, an opera singer and singing teacher, had married Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of Afro-Venezuelan origins, but their relationship had been very opposed by her parents, who did not want a non-white man in the house. The couple’s numerous difficulties had a negative impact on the family’s serenity, so they divorced when Mariah was only 3 years old.
The little girl and her older siblings, Alison and Morgan, went to live with their mother. In her 2020 autobiography, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, she describes her childhood as filled with “pain and confusion.” She saw her father once a week, then less and less. Her relationship with her mother was one of ups and downs, “of love and abandon, of sacrifice and survival,” of contradictions that included “pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration, and disappointment.””
Their life together was punctuated by traumas that pushed her to seek help: “For my own sanity and peace of mind, the therapist encouraged me to give different names to my family members. My mother became Pat for me, Morgan for my ex-brother, and Alison for my ex-sister. I had to stop expecting them to one day miraculously become the mom, big brother, and big sister I had fantasized about .”
However, she has always remained in touch with her mother. In 2010, they performed together in a Christmas concert on ABC TV, and in her autobiography, she acknowledged that “despite everything, she did her best.”
The same cannot be said for her sister Alison, the eldest, or for her brother Morgan, with whom she preferred not to have any contact. In particular, Alison, a former drug addict, had traumatized her because she had “drugged her with Valium, offered her a dose of cocaine, burned her with third-degree burns, and tried to sell her to a man” when she was only 12 years old. Precisely because of these statements written by Mariah Carey in her autobiography, Alison filed a lawsuit against her for more than a million dollars, which ended in nothing.
Media reports these days recall that Alison Carey lived in Coxsackie, New York. In 2015, she suffered a serious trauma: someone broke into her home and hit her on the head with a baseball bat, causing a brain injury and memory loss. She received public benefits and had previously slept on the streets. She had children whom she hadn’t seen for years but who, before dying, had visited her in the hospital where she was hospitalized.
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