Pop diva Mariah Carey is promoting her forthcoming autobiography, The Meaning of Mariah, and in a new interview with Vulture, sheโs dishing on a few tidbits to help tease the book.
Here are a few nightlights from the Vulture profile:
On the interview with Ellen DeGeneres that made her feel uncomfortable: In 2008 there were rumors that Carey was pregnant. During an appearance on Ellen DeGeneresโ talk show, Ellen brought out champagne to test if Mariah was actually pregnant.
โI was extremely uncomfortable with that moment is all I can say. And I really have had a hard time grappling with the aftermath. I wasnโt ready to tell anyone because I had had a miscarriage. I donโt want to throw anyone thatโs already being thrown under any proverbial bus, but I didnโt enjoy that moment.โ
There is โan empathy that can be applied to those moments that I would have liked to have been implemented. But what am I supposed to do? Itโs like, [sings] โWhat are you going to do?'โ
On her romance with baseball player Derek Jeter: In the book, Carey writes about meeting Jeter at a dinner party near the end of her marriage to Tommy Mottola. The two โsecretlyโ started flirting via text, before they shared โa clandestine kissโ on the roof of his apartment building. Though fans have long believed her song โThe Roofโ was, in fact, about Jeter, the tell-all finally confirms it.
โOf course I do! I can never forget that moment. I mean, itโs not like it was some intensely deep, intellectually stimulating โ again, it was a great moment, and it happened in a divine way because it helped me get past living there, in Sing Sing [ex-husband Tommy Mottolaโs home], under those rules and regulations.โ
On her rumored relationship with Eminem (sheโs not spilling much): โThereโs some songs that I can sing in response to that, but I will not do it. If somebody or something didnโt pertain to the actual meaning of Mariah Carey, as is the title, then they arenโt in the book.โ
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