Mariah Carey left devastated after mum and sister both die on the same day

Music legend Mariah Carey has been left devastated after the death of two of her closest relatives – on the same day.

Mariah Carey has been left devastated after the death of two close family members this past weekend.

The singer suffered a double family tragedy when she lost both her mother, Patricia, and her sister Alison, on the same day.

“My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend,” she told People magazine in a statement.

“Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.”

Mariah Carey has been left heartbroken after the death of her mother. Picture: mariahcarey/Instagram

Although the Grammy winner did not reveal anymore details surrounding the deaths of Patricia, 87, and Alison, 63, she did say she spent the past week by her mother’s side.

“I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed,” Mariah added. “I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.”

Mariah, seen here in Sardinia on August 13, shared the sad news with People magazine on August 27. Picture: CIAOPIX/LA FATA/COBRA TEAM / BACKGRID

Mariah herself is the first to admit she had a complicated relationship with her mother.

Patricia – a Juilliard-trained opera singer and vocal coach – was married to Mariah’s father, Alfred Roy Carey, before they divorced when she was just aged three. Alfred died in 2002, aged 72.

“Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities,” she wrote in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. “It’s never been only black-and-white – it’s been a whole rainbow of emotions.”

Mariah also lost her sister Alison on the same day her mother died. Picture: SPLASH / BACKGRID

She went on the describe their relationship as a “prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment”.

Still, they remained in contact and in 2010, mother and daughter performed together for Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to You special on US network ABC, singing a duet mash-up of O Come All Ye Faithful/Hallelujah Chorus.

Mariah would later dedicate her memoir to her mother, writing: “And to Pat, my mother, who, through it all, I do believe actually did the best she could. I will love you the best I can, always.”

The singer has always had a complicated relationship with her family.

The Grammy winner’s relationship with her sister Alison was also strained, and she was just as estranged with her brother Morgan, with the pair often trashing Mariah in the press.

In Mariah memoir, she shed light on the bitterness between herself and her older siblings, saying they siblings resented her for living with their mother in the divorce while they stayed with their father.

“We don’t even really know each other, and that’s the thing. We didn’t grow up together, but we did,” she said on The Oprah Conversation in 2020.

“Like, they were on their journeys, by the time I got into the world, they had already been damaged, in my opinion. But again, I wasn’t there. I was dropped into this world and I literally felt like an outsider among my own family.”

“[My siblings] just grew up with the experience of living with a Black father and a white mother together, as a family, and I was, for the most part, living with my mother, which they saw as easier, but in reality it was not.”

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