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Mariah Carey says her sister drugged her, tried to ‘sell her to a pimp’ When She Was 12

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Updated on July 6, 2023

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Mariah Carey has alleged that when they were children, her elder sister Alison was abusive to her.

Carey’s forthcoming book, which will be released on September 29th, contains the shocking accusation. Alison Carey was 19 or 20 years old at the time of the event, according to reports. In her autobiography, the pop singer mentions Alison and her brother, Morgan Carey, and claims that they are no longer on speaking terms.

Allison “drugged” her with tranquilizers and offered her cocaine before “inflicting” injury on her and tried to turn her into a prostitute, the Fantasy singer’s new biography says.

Morgan, she claims, was a violent child who once pushed their mother, Patricia Carey, towards a wall, making her unconscious, and was sent to a children’s mental facility for “seriously emotionally troubled children.”

“When I was 12 years old,” she writes, “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 Carey recently told Oprah Winfrey that she has always known she would be a celebrity. “I always knew I was going to do this; it was just a matter of when,” Carey said. “Because I came from, you know, a broken and dysfunctional family, without money or things that most people had.” However, she understood that when one gets famous, things don’t necessarily improve, and she stated that she will no longer allow others to treat her like an “ATM machine with a wig on.” She had this to say about her siblings.

“Yeah, that was a thing,” the 50-year-old diva, whose parents separated when she was three, said of how she was continuously terrified and sensed violence heading her way as a child. “It’s described through the feeling of when a storm is about to happen … it’s a scary thing but you sense it and you learn to navigate your behaviour because of it.”

“I tried to be thoughtful about that, although, I don’t know that the same courtesy has been extended to me from anybody that caused certain traumatic events in my life.”

Mariah, 50, tells the heartbreaking story of Alison, who got pregnant at the age of 15 and gave birth against her mother Patricia’s wishes. She recalls being seven years old and attending the most uncomfortable baby/wedding shower she’d ever attended for her sister, who later traveled to the Philippines to marry her baby daddy, a 19-year-old serviceman. Alison, 20, returned to their hometown of Long Island, N.Y., just a few years later and was in poor shape.

“Whatever had happened to her over there, or on Long Island, or in a back room somewhere, had taken its toll on her,” Mariah wrote. “Something, or many things, must have happened to her to lead her to barter her body for money and drugs, as she went on to do for years.”

Mariah stated that her parents divorced when she was three, and she moved in with their mother while Alison moved in with their father, Alfred — and the siblings didn’t get along. Alison, on the other hand, expressed an interest in Mariah for the first time when she returned. Alison began enticing her, she alleged, by doing things like covertly acquiring the then 12-year-old her own phone line, which their mother was unaware of. Mariah was immediately won over. Alison had moved in with a new “boyfriend” — later revealed to be a pimp — and welcomed Mariah to the lovely house where she could watch as much TV as she wanted and eat all the things her mother couldn’t afford.

Mariah alleges that her sister’s boyfriend, John, was involved in a prostitution ring and that she was duped into spending a night alone with him at a drive-in movie, where he “almost immediately” wrapped his arm around her.

Mariah was terrified by the “handgun resting against his thigh,” and she only managed to flee after another car drove by them, leading John to drive her home “in silence.”

Mariah was advised not to tell anybody about her visit, or that Alison and her “boyfriend” John would drive her to Manhattan, or to dine at IHOP, and give her the attention she so desperately needed. But Mariah quickly realized it was “love masquerading as manipulation.”

“Now, of course, it’s clear to me that the fun house was a whorehouse. I think my sister was kind of like the hustler, the talent scout,” Mariah wrote. “I had no idea; after all, I was a 12-year-old girl.”

“Like, they were on their journeys, by the time I got into the world, [my siblings] had already been damaged, in my opinion. But again, I wasn’t there. I was dropped into this world and I literally felt like an outsider amongst my own family. I have forgiveness in my heart, and so I forgive them, but I am not trying to invite anybody to come hang out over here. I think they’re very broken, and I feel sad for them.” Mariah said.

Because she only lived with their mother as a child, the Hero hitmaker feels her siblings thought she had an “easier” life than they did.

She said: “We don’t even really know each other … we didn’t grow up together, but we did”.

Mariah Carey’s marriage to Tommy Mottola, her liaison with Derek Jeter, her marriage to Nick Cannon, her singing career, and her film Glitter, which has become a cult favorite in the years following its debut, are all discussed in The Meaning of Mariah Carey.