Mariah Carey was sued by her sister, Alison A. Carey, in New York court over the contents of the singer’s recent memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” which describes a controversial and deeply estranged relationship between the superstar and her eight-year-old brother or sister.
Alison Carey’s case, filed in New York County Supreme Court on Monday, calls for a minimum of $ 1.25 million for ‘the administration of great emotional distress caused by the heartless, venomous, vengeful, contemptible and totally unnecessary public humiliation of the accused of the accused parent’s deeply injured parent. sister. ”
In the lawsuit, it is said that Carey harshly dismisses the plaintiff as an ‘ex’ sister. But instead of saying no more than that, the defendant used her book to humiliate and embarrass the plaintiff while stories about the memoirs appeared in newspapers around the world, on TV and on the internet, most of which with headlines repeat the defendant’s allegations – all published without giving plaintiff the opportunity to respond. ”
It is further stated that the superstar ‘has publicly acknowledged the plaintiff’s vulnerability. In stories published a few weeks before the publication of her book, the defendant is quoted as saying that the plaintiff was ‘damaged’ and ‘very broken’. But despite this, the defendant uses her status as a public figure to attack her sister without sister, and generates sensational headlines describing her unequivocal allegations to promote the sales of her book. Defendant’s cruel and outrageous allegations devastated the plaintiff. She has been struggling with the unspeakable trauma of her childhood and letting her own children down, has become very depressed and uncharacteristically tearful since the publication of the accused’s book and is now struggling, after a long time clean, with alcohol abuse.
The singer’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Alison Carey declined to comment beyond what was submitted in her court file.
According to the document, Alison sent a settlement offer to the singer’s lawyers on January 8, but received no response.
In “The Meaning of Mariah Carey”, the memoirist recounts that she grew up as the child of divorced parents, often mocked for her interracial heritage, and subject to witnessing her brother’s anger, before going to a chapter which focuses on her relationship. with her sister, “Dandelion Tea.”
Carey has a few words of sympathy or admiration for her sister and describes her as ‘deeply wounded’ and ‘the most brilliant and broken person I have ever known’, but in the chapter she is allegedly exposed to her exposure to drugs or older men because of her older sister, when Mariah was 12 and Alison 20, along with a physically debilitating encounter.
“Big sisters are supposed to protect you, not to pimp you out,” Carey writes at one point, claiming that Alison left her in the company of a boyfriend who was moving on her when they were left alone.
She also describes a seemingly playful moment that became awful when she poured boiling boiling tea on me … my back splashed with third-degree burns. I could not recognize it as mine, “the singer wrote. “She burned my back and my confidence. Any faint hope that I would help up to that point that a big sister became a scorched earth. “Maria adds later:” Alison burned me in many ways and more times than I can count … The promise of her life was wasted in a tragic series of cheap bargains rather than being redeemed by the difficult, lifelong work of recovery and to build yourself up. ”
In the concluding sections of the chapter, Carey writes: ‘Over the years, my sister and my brother have put me on the mantle, selling lies to any gossip or dirty website that would buy or listen. They have been attacking me for decades. But when I was 12 years old, my sister drugged me with Valium, offered me a pink nail full of cocaine, inflicted my third-degree burns, and tried to sell me a pimp. Something in me was arrested by all the trauma. That’s why I often say, ‘I’m forever twelve.’ ‘
Alison Carey’s lawsuit states that she disputes the allegations in the book, claiming that her sister “offered no evidence to substantiate these serious allegations.”
One thing the two sisters agree on is that they had a very unhappy early home life, although the case contains a more obscure statement about their upbringing than anything in the book. According to the case, Mariah ‘made these outrageous allegations knowing that (Alison) was deeply and permanently harmed as a result of being forced by the defendant and the plaintiff’s mother, while she was a pre-teen to attend the terrifying satan worship during the middle of the night. meetings that include ritual sacrifice and sexual activities. “According to the document, Alison suffers from PTSD, anxiety and depression and also has serious health issues.
Alison Carey represents herself in the legal proceedings.
At the end of September, ‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey’ appeared first on the New York Times’ list of non-fiction bestsellers. The singer said in interviews that she is out to have the memoirs processed into a feature film or limited series.