![]() For one thing, I never knew he was in touch with my music and my career. I was fortunate to find out things I never knew about my father. I’m not saying there was a deliberate thing that happened, but that’s just the way it is. “When you grow up with one parent, you get one side of the story. Here’s what Mariah said about her redeveloping a relationship with her father: They reconnected, but their time together wasn’t long because Alfred was battling cancer. Mariah had a change of heart and decided to find her Dad after years of not speaking to him and well after she had sold millions of records. In that sense I’m very lucky, because I could have been a very screwed-up person.” She always taught me to believe in myself, to love all the things I am. She never discouraged me from having a good feeling about him. ![]() “Lucky for me, my mother never said anything negative about my father. But it’s not reality.” Mariah Carey’s paternal grandmotherĪlthough Mariah eventually realized that she had very little in common with her Pops’- he was not a lover of music, her mother was a singer though her dad was a skilled mathematician and that is not Mariah’s forte at all- Mariah’s grateful that she was able to discover that on her own without being persuaded in any way by her Mother, whom she sauys never talked ill of their Pops, even after all of the heated arguments and drama they experienced in their marriage: Everyone wishes they had the Brady Bunch family. Mariah said that her parents’ failed marriage and the way that it ultimately affected her, was the reason why she had such a negative outlook on marriage:įor a long time the divorce colored her attitude towards the institution of marriage. And because I was so young when they divorced, it was a major split for me.” Mariah and her father, Alfred Carey The tension, anger, and bitterness between the parents is often put off on the children. It’s just very difficult growing up in a divorced family. He’s a good person, I don’t have anything against him. had a good relationship for about a minute after the divorce. Mariah said this about she and her dad’s relationship after her parents’ divorced: After a while, those visits became less frequent and eventually Alfred and Mariah didn’t really keep in touch much at all. He passed away after Mariah became a multiplatinum selling singer, so he did get a chance to see her flourish in life.Īfter Patricia and Alfred divorced in 1973, Alfred started seeing their three children only on a weekly basis. Mariah’s dad and her mother, Patricia, were married when Mariah was young, but their marriage ultimately ended because they eventually succumbed to all of the racial backlash and mistreatment they were getting from so many people of all races during the civil rights era.Īfter her parents divorced when she was still a young girl, Mariah and her father began to drift apart and Mariah ultimately ended up regretting that they didn’t spend more time together before her father passed away from cancer. Mariah Carey (L) her dad, Alfred Roy and her sister, Alison (R) Alfred’s father was an African-Venezuelan and his mother was an African American woman from Alabama. Mariah’s father, Alfred Roy Carey, is of African-American and African-Venezuelen descent. So we decided to lay it out on the table and let folks see Mariah’s African American side of the fam’ once and for all. But still there are many who question whether or not Mariah is actually half Black. ![]() Mariah Carey has often talked about her family situation and how difficult it was for her growing up as a biracial child.
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