"But it was the day you were released from a place …" I had my own personal drama attached to it, 'cause that was the day that 'Glitter' was supposed to be released." "But when the towers were collapsing, I left that place, and somehow survived, like we all had to. "I was in a very dark place that ended up almost completely destroying my life," Carey said.
Pauley asked, "Where were you when the twin towers fell on 9/11?" So, I worked myself into the ground."Īnd into treatment, late in the summer of 2001. I was working so hard and I wasn't about to let everything I'd worked so hard for just to slip away. But I allowed myself to be put in a position for that to happen.
Her low point she described was going six days with just two hours' sleep. "There's very few people who understand, like, being under the constant scrutiny of the world, or the press." "The ' Glitter' era, it was an intense time," Carey agreed. "It'd be, like, people around me, we had to say 'sparkle' instead of 'glitter'!"Ģ001, noted Pauley, was a year the tabloids tried to eat Carey alive. "I couldn't even say the word 'glitter,'" Carey said. Finally free, and at the peak of her recording career, she trie3d movies, leading to the darkest chapter of her life. "I was, you know, living in this beautiful mansion but it was very lonely and hard to just even catch my breath to have a phone conversation."Ĭarey and Mottola divorced after five years. "When you're young and you're an artist and everybody else is going out and experiencing the limelight I wasn't doing that," Carey said. As she describes in a chapter she called "Princess. "Storybook Manor" is what she named the mansion the two of them built together with all the trappings of success. And I was living my dream, but it was also a nightmare." Just kept goin' in and making records and making records and writing songs and feeding the machine. He was 44! "I was a kid in his world, and I just kept making money for the company. "I did not have any power in that relationship." Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff originally wrote and produced this song for Gloria Estefan. But one of you didn't have any power, and that was you." Afanasieff 'Hero' was released via Columbia Records as the second single from Mariah Carey's third studio album on the 19th of October 1993.
Pauley said, "You're the power couple in the music industry. When they married in 1993, more of us knew her name than his. "The words that you're thinking, yeah, over and over and over and over again?"įast forward five years - one of the most powerful names in the music industry, Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola, discovers a teenager named Mariah Carey. And then, I just felt utterly betrayed because they cornered me in order to just completely derail me and use words we don't say." So then these "pretty" girls invite her to spend a weekend: "I was so excited and innocently thinking, Oh, this is gonna be great. But for someone with the actual texture that my hair is where it's curly, it's frizzy and it's this and it's that, my mother kind of being oblivious to the fact that we need condition and we need to figure out this child's hair!" "They weren't, like, the ultimate cool girls of the school," Carey said, "but they were very pretty and they were different than me because they were White girls who kind of could wake up and just look fabulous with their hair, that didn't need to be tended to and dealt with. So what else is there to know about Carey beyond the ballads and re-circulated gossip? What makes her tick, and what are her hopes for the future? And are all of those crazy rumors about her really true? This is the untold truth of Mariah Carey.Pauley said, "One of the most painful episodes in the book happened when you were in middle school and hanging out with girls that were, I mean, every middle school has its mean girls, right?" And while tabloids have certainly had plenty to say about the pop diva over the years, Carey isn't fazed and isn't ashamed of her own humanity. From her humble beginnings to her status as the Christmas queen, Carey has become an icon to her legions of fans, transforming the entertainment landscape.īut despite the fact that Carey is indeed American pop culture royalty, she's also a mere mortal, with flaws and weaknesses just like everyone else. Known for her ability to crank out hit singles with her stunning, five-octave range, Carey skyrocketed to the top of the charts in 1990 and never looked back, as noted by The Guardian. Singer-songwriter Mariah Carey is one of the most celebrated names in the music industry, boasting a career that's lasted for more than three decades and a host of accolades to her name.
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