“I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed.

I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.

” Patricia Carey was a Juilliard-trained opera singer and a vocal coach.

She was married to Mariah Carey’s father Alfred Roy, from whom she separated when Mariah Carey was three years old.

Roy died in 2002.

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In her 2020 book “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” Mariah Carey opened up about her “complicated” relationship with her mother, writing that “like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities.

” Despite their sometimes-strained relationship, Mariah Carey included her mother in the opening dedication of the book.

“And to Pat, my mother, who, through it all, I do believe actually did the best she could.

I will love you the best I can, always,” she wrote.

Mariah Carey was reportedly estranged from her sister Alison Carey, who sued her in 2021 for intentional infliction of emotional distress caused by some of the contents in Mariah Carey’s memoir.

In the lawsuit filed in New York, Alison Carey claimed her younger sister used her book as a means to “humiliate and embarrass” her, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by CNN.

Mariah Carey is one of three children.

In addition to Alison Carey, Patricia Carey was also mom to son Morgan Carey.

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