Mariah Carey is coping with some severe grief after experiencing a number of tragedies this weekend.
A consultant for the legendary singer-songwriter confirmed to PEOPLE on Monday, Aug. 26, that her mom Patricia and sister Alison died on the identical day over the weekend.
“My coronary heart is damaged that I’ve misplaced my mom this previous weekend,” Carey instructed the outlet in an announcement. “Sadly, in a tragic flip of occasions, my sister misplaced her life on the identical day.”
She continued, “I really feel blessed that I used to be capable of spend the final week with my mother earlier than she handed. I respect everybody’s love and help and respect for my privateness throughout this unimaginable time.”
Patricia and Alison’s causes of demise should not identified presently.
Mariah beforehand spoke on her sophisticated relationship together with her mom in her 2020 memoir, The That means of Mariah Carey. Patricia and Mariah’s father, Juilliard-trained opera singer and vocal coach Alfred Roy Carey, bought divorced when the star was 3 years outdated.
“Like many points of my life, my journey with my mom has been filled with contradictions and competing realities,” she wrote in her memoir. “It’s by no means been solely black-and-white — it’s been a complete rainbow of feelings.”
Carey continued, “Our relationship is a prickly rope of delight, ache, disgrace, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A sophisticated love tethers my coronary heart to my mom’s.”
She additionally devoted her memoir, partially, to her mom, insisting that regardless of their variations, Patricia did her greatest in elevating her, her sister Alison, and her brother, Morgan.
“And to Pat, my mom, who, by means of all of it, I do imagine really did the perfect she might,” she wrote. “I’ll love you the perfect I can, all the time.”
Mariah’s relationship together with her sister was additionally very sophisticated, writing within the memoir that it was “emotionally and bodily safer for me to not have any contact” together with her or Morgan. Nevertheless, she nonetheless maintained a relationship together with her mom.