Mariah Carey Reveals That Her Mother and Sister Died on the Same Day: A Look at Their Family History

Singer Mariah Carey recently revealed that both her mother and sister died on the same day in late August. Their causes of death are still unknown currently.  

 "My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day," Carey told PEOPLE on Monday, August 26. "I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed. I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time." 

Carey’s mom, Patricia, was 87 years old, and her sister, Alison, was 63.  

To learn more about the Grammy award winner's relationship with her both her sister and mother, keep scrolling.  

 All about Mariah Carey’s mother 

Patricia Carey was born in 1937, and was quite a successful opera singer. Her most well-known work was the 1998 rendition of King Oedipus. She married Mariah’s father, Alfred Roy, in 1960, and remained with him until 1973. They had three children together, including Mariah.  

While Mariah shared a heartwarming tribute at the time of her mom’s passing, the two weren’t always close.  

In Mariah’s 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the singer wrote of her relationship with her mom, “Ours is a story of betrayal and beauty. Of love and abandonment. Of sacrifice and survival. I’ve emancipated myself from bondage several times, but there is a cloud of sadness that I suspect will always hang over me, not simply because of my mother but because of our complicated journey together.” 

She expanded on this further by writing, “Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A complicated love tethers my heart to my mother's." 

"Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities. It's never been only black-and-white — it's been a whole rainbow of emotions.”  

All about Mariah Carey’s sister 

Like Mariah’s relationship with her mother, the singer was not as close with her sister, Alison Carey, and their brother, Morgan.  

Wrote Mariah of her siblings, “For my sanity and peace of mind, my therapist encouraged me to literally rename and reframe my family. My mother became Pat to me, Morgan my ex-brother and Alison my ex-sister ... I had to stop expecting them to one day miraculously become the mommy, big brother and big sister I fantasized about.” 

″I had to stop making myself available to be hurt by them. It has been helpful. I have no doubt it is emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact with my ex-brother and ex-sister. The situation with Pat, on the other hand, is more complicated. I have reserved some room in my heart and life to hold her — but with boundaries. Creating boundaries with the woman who gave birth to me is not easy — it is a work in progress." 

The distance between the singer and her family was the result of claims she made in the book, specifically about her sister. “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,” Mariah wrote, much to her sister’s dismay.  

Alison denied these allegations and threatened to sue Mariah for $1.25 million in February 2021.  

Even with all that drama, though, Mariah always defended her sister, writing, “I do know that what she experienced damaged and derailed her girlhood. She was fully aware when the family unit unraveled, and our parents turned on each other; she absorbed the full pain of a family coming undone.” 

 May Alison and Patricia rest in peace.  

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