Mariah Carey Talks Tommy Mottola Marriage: ‘Sometimes I Feel Angry’
Mariah Carey look at his first marriage with Tommy Mottola.
The singer “Vision of Love”, 56, was Married to musical responsibility Mottola77, from 1993 to 1998, after having signed it to his first registration contract with Columbia Records years earlier.
Over the years, Carey has referred to Mottola exercising control over her musical career, as well as their marriage, even comparing their Bedford, New York, Mansion at the infamous Sing Sing prison.
“Sometimes I feel angry at that time, but I think I made peace with that – in any case, I swore that I would stop talking about it,” shared the Grammy winner in rare comments on marriage in an interview with Harper bazaar Posted on Monday July 28.
As for the way she faces her negative feelings about this period of her life, Carey said: “Humor is my release, and people who know me know it. I will make small jokes on what happened because otherwise I could make a bloody story every day.… It is an adaptation mechanism, but it is in my nature of laughing. ”
Carey was an immediate success when she released her first eponymous album in 1990, followed by several other successes n ° 1 on the Display panel 200 Chart albums. However, she claims that Mottola protected her from her booming superstom at the start of her career.
In a particular incident, the singer remembers having been in Schenectady, New York, to record a performance for a Thanksgiving TV show. Upon her arrival, she noticed the great security in place to manage the crowd that took place to see her. According to Harper bazaarIt was then that she realized how famous she was.
“And it was just shocking, because no one had ever said to me:” Hey, these people are outside the store, and they all want to buy your file “,” said Carey.

Carey and Mottola finally separated in 1997, which was roughly at the same time when the singer began to detach herself from pop walks and explore different genres – something that her husband previously discouraged.
“I wanted to do more R&B, more urban music, and each time I would bring that, he would be killed,” she said. “It was not that I did not like the music I made – I just felt that there was more in me than I wanted to go out.”
1997 Carey album ButterflyWith the successful song “Honey”, was the first step to cultivate the R&B tempting sound for which it is known to date. “I felt free for the first time,” she said.
Carey remarried a decade after her Mottola divorce, tie the knot with Nick Canon In 2008. The couple welcomed Twins Morocco and MonroeNow, 14, in 2011. She and Cannon separated in 2014 and their divorce was finalized in 2016.
Mottola, for her part, was married to the Mexican singer and actress Thalia Since 2000.
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