Mariah Carey opens up about first marriage to man 20 years her senior
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mariah Carey has recently revealed that despite what people thought, things weren’t always as glamorous as they seemed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a cover story for </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cosmopolitan</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the singer discussed a range of topics, including her mixed-race identity, the impact she’s had on pop music across her three-decade career, as well as her beginnings in the music industry.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> She also made reference to her marriage to a man 20 years her senior, Sony Music mogul Tommy Mottola.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You might want to picture a child bride,” she</span><a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a28137694/mariah-carey-profile-cover-cosmo-interview-sex-shade-memes/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> told the magazine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “There was a conscious effort to keep me as this all-American, whatever that means, girl. It was very controlled. There was no freedom for me as a human being. It was almost like being a prisoner.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mottola has deemed his relationship with Carey as “wrong and inappropriate” and the couple broke up after eight years together. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carey also goes onto talk about her infamous 2016 New Year’s Eve performance when her earpiece malfunctioned and she refused to sing along to the backup track.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If people think that’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, then first of all, they haven’t studied my career well enough,” she says. “After what I’ve been through, who really gives a s**t if my monitor broke, fell off, came out of my ears because the stupid robe was too loose? These things happen and it’s over. My true fans stick with me, and the rest of the people will get over it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cosmopolitan </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">asked her about whether she writes her own songs and she commented:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“A lot of artists say they write, but they don’t really write. No offense to anybody. That’s just what I’ve seen.”</span></p>
