Mariah Carey had “no contact” with her older sister Alison Carey before her shocking passing on the same day as her mother Patricia’s death.
The Fantasy singer, 55, released a heartbreaking statement on Monday announcing the deaths of her brother, 63, and mother, 87, saying her “heart is broken.”
Sources said TMZ on Tuesday that the Grammy winner did not communicate with Alison before her passing, and instead was by his mother’s side in the week leading up to her death.
The sisters’ estrangement was caused by Alison’s years-long battle with drug addiction, sources told the outlet.
After many attempts to help her sister, Mariah made the decision to cut Alison out of her life so as not to be an “enabler” and put distance between them.
Mariah Carey, 55, reportedly had “no contact” with her older sister, Alison Carey, before her shocking passing on the same day as her mother, Patricia’s death; seen in February in Los Angeles
On Monday, Mariah said in a statement to People“I am heartbroken to have lost my mother last weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.”
‘I feel blessed to have been able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed away.’
In closing, the musical artist added: “I appreciate everyone’s love, support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.”
The cause of death for her sister and mother has not yet been revealed. However, Alison’s close friend Dave Barker said The US Sun that Alison “was receiving palliative care at home for the last three weeks of her life.”
She was having problems with her ‘internal organs’ and Barker added: ‘I’ve known her for nine years and as her friend and in recent months her carer, I will miss her very much…’
Carey had a strained relationship with her mother, Patricia, as well as her sister Alison, from whom she later became estranged.
The star also has a brother, Morgan Carey, 64, and her opera singer father Alfred died in 2002 at the age of 72. Mariah’s parents split up when she was three.
Mariah said in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, that after extensive therapy, she decided to stop having contact with Alison and Morgan.
Sources told TMZ on Tuesday that the Grammy winner did not communicate with Alison before her passing, and instead was by his mother’s side in the week leading up to her death.
The sisters’ estrangement was due to Alison’s years-long battle with drug addiction, sources told the outlet.
‘For my sanity and peace of mind, my therapist encouraged me to literally rename and rethink my family… Morgan, my ex-brother, and Alison, my ex-sister…’
“I had to stop hoping that one day they would miraculously turn into the big brother and big sister I fantasized about,” she wrote.
Mariah added: “I had to stop putting myself out there to be hurt. It has been helpful. I have no doubt that it is emotionally and physically safer for me to not have any contact with my ex-brother and ex-sister.”
In the book, Mariah claimed that Alison tried to get her to do drugs and “caused third-degree burns” when she was a pre-teen, affecting her development for life.
“When I was 12, my sister drugged me with Valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine… and tried to sell me to a pimp,” Mariah said. “Something in me stopped because of all that trauma. That’s why I often say, ‘I’m eternally 12.’ I’m still struggling to get over that moment.”
In a September 2020 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mariah described Alison as “troubled and traumatized” amid her upbringing.
The Someday singer recalled: ‘We don’t even really know each other, and that’s the thing. We didn’t grow up together, but we did. I mean, they were on their journeys, by the time I came into the world, they were already damaged, in my opinion.
“But then again, I wasn’t there. I was dropped into this world and literally felt like an outsider among my own family.”
On Monday, Mariah said in a statement to People: “I am heartbroken to have lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.” Seen with Patricia and her daughter Monroe in 2015 in Hollywood.
According to a 2015 study The New York Post According to the report, Alison was a mother of four children, getting pregnant for the first time at age 15 and having another child in 1988. She had two more children in 2002, the paper reported.
Following the book’s release in September 2020, Alison filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against the Grammy-winning artist in 2021.
Alison had also been living with HIV since 1990, as she reported in 2005 that she had been HIV positive “for at least 15 years.”
In her 2021 lawsuit, she said she had been living with a brain injury following a violent home invasion she was the victim of in 2015. She said the incident affected her vision and short-term memory.
In a video circulated last fall, Alison said she had lost all of her teeth and could not afford any dental restoration treatment.
A source told the Post in June 2005 that Alison had “been to rehab at least 10 times, many of them funded by Mariah.”
While “Mariah isn’t one to give up on people,” “she had to learn that you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped,” a source said in the report.
A source told the outlet that “Mariah, especially, wanted a reconciliation” with her older sister in 2002 after their father’s death.
“She thought it was important to try to make something good out of a terrible situation,” a source told the outlet.
In a September 2020 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mariah described Alison as “troubled and traumatized” amid her upbringing.
The cause of death for her sister and mother has not yet been revealed. However, Alison’s close friend Dave Barker told The US Sun that Alison “was receiving palliative care at home for the last three weeks of her life”; Alison seen above in 2023
After her father’s death, Alison inherited a million dollars, but she was not financially prudent with the money.
Alison returned to prostitution “around the time the money ran out,” a source told the outlet.
In March 2016, Alison filmed a video published by Dailymail.com in which she asked her famous brother for financial help following the 2015 attack that left her injured.
She said, “Mariah, I love you. I desperately need your help. Please don’t leave me like this.”