Patricia (87 years old), Mariah Carey's mother, and her older sister Alison (63 years old), lost their lives on the same day last weekend. No information on the causes of this double death has yet been communicated.
My heart is broken because I lost my mother this weekend. And unfortunately, through a tragic combination of circumstances, my sister also died the same day. I 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 difficult time..
Contaminated by HIV at the end of the 80s, Alison, lived very far from her sister Mariah for decades. Patricia Carey, the mother, had obtained temporary custody of one of the sons ofAlison in the 90's. Alison never accepted this decision. Mariah Carey had explained, in his autobiography The Meaning of Mariah Carey (2020), that his relationship with his mother, a former opera singer of Irish-American origin, had been “full of contradictions” and that a “complicated love” united them. But if Alison had become estranged from the rest of her family, Mariah and his mother Patricia never broke the link.