US EditionMariah Carey Opens Up About Coping With Anger From Her Marriage to Tommy Mottola
UNITED STATES, JUL 29 – Mariah Carey uses humor to cope with emotional pain from her controlling marriage to Tommy Mottola, describing laughter as her natural release and coping mechanism.
- In its September 2025 issue published Monday, July 28, Harper’s Bazaar UK quoted legendary award-winning singer Mariah Carey saying, `Humor is my release, and people who know me know that` in her interview about coping with her marriage to Tommy Mottola.
- Carey described her marriage to Tommy Mottola as controlling and emotionally abusive, comparing her Bedford mansion to Sing Sing and feeling 'almost like being a prisoner'.
- In discussing her coping, Mariah Carey noted, `I’ll make little jokes about what happened because otherwise I could make every day a sob story`, highlighting humor as her deliberate mechanism.
- According to Carey, she still feels occasional anger about her past but has made peace and vowed to stop talking about it.
- Shortly before their separation, Carey felt 'free for the first time' after Butterfly's release, marking her creative break from her marriage era.
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Mariah Carey spoke again about her private life. First, she did so in her memoirs The Meaning Of Mariah. In the last hours, in an interview. The artist opened her heart and recalled a very special time of her life when she was married to music producer Tommy Mottola. Although her career achieved success alongside the then director of Sony Music, the truth is that the singer described the ordeal that lived in doors with him. In fact, she compared…
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Mariah Carey Opens Up About Coping With Anger From Her Marriage to Tommy Mottola
"Sometimes I feel angry about that time, but I think I’ve made peace with it."GettyThe GistMariah Carey has opened up about feeling "angry" about her marriage to Tommy Mottola, which lasted from 1993 to 1998."Humor is my release, and people who know me know that," she revealed.Mottola himself previously called the relationship "absolutely wrong and inappropriate."Mariah Carey has opened up about her complicated feelings surrounding her first mar…
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Mariah Carey has a storied past that includes her marriage to Columbia Records exec Tommy Mottola. In the past she has discussed her feelings about their troubled marriage, and alleged he was… Source
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