Mariah Carey admitted to suffering emotional and mental abuse during a revealing “Larry King Live” interview airing on Wednesday. In the CNN clip, Carey candidly discloses her past experience with abuse after King questions her about Rihanna and Chris Brown’s troubled relationship.
“Abuse has several different categories . . . emotionally, mentally, in other ways,” she says. “It’s scary. You know, I just think you get into a situation and you feel locked in, if your situation is similar to one of the situations that I’ve been in, which I won’t harp on.”
When she first learned about Rihanna’s assault, she was in disbelief.
Mariah Carey admitted to suffering emotional and mental abuse during a revealing “Larry King Live” interview airing on Wednesday. In the CNN clip, Carey candidly discloses her past experience with abuse after King questions her about Rihanna and Chris Brown’s troubled relationship.
“Abuse has several different categories . . . emotionally, mentally, in other ways,” she says. “It’s scary. You know, I just think you get into a situation and you feel locked in, if your situation is similar to one of the situations that I’ve been in, which I won’t harp on.”
When she first learned about Rihanna’s assault, she was in disbelief.
“I can’t imagine,” she says. “I was very sequestered when I first started out, and if I was just allowed to be young and with a young boyfriend who’s also a star, and you’re working . . . I don’t know what goes on. I wasn’t really allowed out of the house, so I can’t imagine what she went through.” King continues presses Carey about why it’s so hard to get out abusive relationships.
“For me, to really get out, it was difficult because there was a connection that was not only a marriage, but a business thing where the person was in control of my life,” she says. The “Hero” singer, who married Nick Cannon last year, was previously wed to music executive Tommy Mottola in 1993. The pair divorced five years later. Carey, 40, drew from these painful experiences while working on “Precious,” a critically-acclaimed urban drama opening this Friday that follows an illiterate and abused Harlem teen where Carey plays a social worker.
“There’s other things, and other times in my life, and things that I will eventually talk about when I write my book . . . just certain things that also make me identify with ‘Precious,” she says. source
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