![]() I would say the neglect was on several levels. so I literally try to make my kids' lives amazing," says Carey, who shares 9-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-husband Nick Cannon. "I think it's really a tough job to be a mother. Meanwhile, Carey felt as if her mother neglected her growing up, and says her relationship with her mother is still "really difficult." We had a lot of discussions when he was on his deathbed and that was a time when I felt I just wanted to let him know that anything we ever went through, and our disconnect, like, it was never his fault and that was an important part for me." "We talked about his experience in the military, which is intense, what he revealed to me. It was an almost military approach to life," she remembers. "That was sort of maybe where we didn't connect early on. "When I was 12 years old, my sister drugged me with valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine, inflicted me with third degree burns and tried to sell me out to a pimp," Carey alleges in her book, as recited by Winfrey. ![]() In her book, which Winfrey read passages from throughout the interview, Carey claims that in addition to her siblings "selling lies" to gossip magazines and "attacking" her for decades, she had an extremely traumatic experience with her sister before she was even a teenager. "I tried to be thoughtful about that, although, I don't know that the same courtesy has been extended to me from anybody that caused certain traumatic events in my life," she continues, alleging that both her brother and sister put her on "the chopping block" over the years. it's a scary thing but you sense it and you learn to navigate your behavior because of it," Carey says, claiming her brother was "extremely violent" and her sister was "troubled and traumatized." ![]() It's described through the feeling of when a storm is about to happen. She recalls being constantly afraid growing up, and could sense whenever violence was coming. It's like, 'Let me get some money, no matter what, even if that means going to a tabloid.'"Ĭarey was born in Huntington, New York, the daughter of Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of African American and Venezuelan descent, and Patricia, an opera singer and vocal coach of an Irish-American family from Illinois. Carey was the youngest of three kids (she has a brother, Morgan, 60, and sister, Allison, 57), and her parents divorced when she was just three years old. If I hadn't been dragged by certain people and treated as an ATM machine with a wig on. But I wouldn't have gone here if things hadn't been done to me. When there are people that are connected to you as a person that achieves a certain level of success, you are a target, you're vulnerable. "It's because I would never have spoken a word about anybody in my life and I tried to be very fair, but people have drawn first blood with me historically. So having the time to reflect on my life and to be able to explain things in a layered way has been really a motivating factor and it's been very therapeutic to do this."Ĭarey admits she was afraid of writing the book, but it's not because she was "worried" what her family "would think" about the details she shares about her life being defined by trauma. "So I don't turn into one of those people that has lost touch with the essence of who they are, but I really did in so many ways because of so many other outside components. "I realized, one day when I grow up, and I do what I'm dreaming of doing, which will happen, and I won't be in these sad circumstances forever, but one day I'm just going to remember what this feels like," she recalls.
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