'I had very sad Christmases': Mariah Carey opens up about her 'dysfunctional' childhood

The queen of Christmas had her share of sadness before becoming the planetary star that we know.

With the approach of the holidays, Mariah Carey is thus delivered as rarely on his life and on his difficult childhood, during an interview devoted to W Magazine.

"I know most of the time people say, 'Look at her! She's so festive and so Christmas girly,' or whatever.

Christmas makes me happy, she began.

But people think I had a princess life, a fairy tale existence where I emerged saying, "Here I am."

And that's not it.

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The interpreter of the tube

had already evoked a violent past between her and her brothers and sisters, most of whom are drug addicts, in her memoirs entitled

(2020).

""I had very sad Christmases in my childhood, but I always try to find the light there," she explained to the American monthly.

It was an extremely dysfunctional childhood, so much so that it's shocking that I got away with it at all…”.

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A mixed childhood

Born in Huntington, New York, to a black father, an aeronautical engineer, and a white mother, a singer, who performed with the New York City Opera, Mariah Carey grew up in the predominantly white neighborhood of Long Island .

She then reflected on the difficulty of growing up as a “bi-racial” girl in the 1980s. “There were no role models for people who were clearly mixed or, you know, light-skinned or whatever. what we were categorizing at the time, so I didn't know who to turn to when I was growing up.

It was hard."

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And to continue: “When you grow up with a messy life and you are able to have this transformation where you can make your life whatever you want it to be?

It was a joy for me”.

Mother of two children, Moroccan Scott and Monroe, the latter does everything so that they lack nothing.

“I want them to have everything they can get.

I want them to be able to understand that they can be anything they want to be,” she insists on repeating to them.