Close friend shares details about the life of Mariah Carey’s controversial sister

Patricia Carey87, and Alison Carey63, mother and sister of Mariah Careyrespectively, passed away on the same day last weekend, the singer confirmed to People. The cause of death for each was not revealed, but Mariah declared (via People):

My heart is broken over the loss of my mother this past weekend. Unfortunately, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life the same day. I feel blessed to have been able to spend the last week with my mother before she passed away. I appreciate everyone’s love, support, and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.

David Bakerwho knew Alison nine years ago, he told People that she “had a tough life” before she died at her home in Coxsackie, New York. “We knew it was coming, but it’s still a shock,” she said. Baker. “She got sick very quickly and a month later she passed away.”

Baker shared on Twitter on August 3: “A sad end to a tragic life: the ex-sister of
Mariah Carey now receives palliative care at home.”

He also revealed that he was the one who helped Alison to find an apartment in New York, where he has lived for the past three years. David She also said that she talked about putting her friend in a nursing home, but offered to help her continue living on her own. “She fulfilled her wishes: she died in her own home,” she said.

Family

Alison was the mother of four: three boys and one girl. According to Bakerthey visited their mother two or three weeks before her death. In the case of the daughter, she visited her daily.

The friend confessed that he is not sure when was the last time he Alison saw the sister, Mariah. The guess of Baker is that they last met between 1994 and 2002.

Patricia died a few hours before her daughter, who did not know about her mother’s death.

“Alison was a very intelligent and sensitive person”, he recalled Baker. They met in 2015, when Alison was injured during a home invasion. She lived on Long Island and had to be hospitalized. Morganbrother of Alison and Mariahused Facebook to ask someone to visit her. Baker volunteered: “I saw someone who needed help and I knew I could help.”

“She would tell me she was so happy I was around. More recently, before she got sick, if I was gone for an hour, she would call and ask, ‘When are you coming back?’ And I would say, ‘Well, I’ll be there in 20 minutes.’ And then she would call a second time and ask, ‘When are you coming back?’ Because short-term memory has been affected by the brain injury.”

Relationship with Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey reflected on the relationship with the brothers Morgan and Alison in his memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey (2020), saying it was “emotionally and physically safer to have no contact” with them.

“When I was 12, my sister drugged me with Valium, offered me a pinkie nail full of cocaine and tried to sell me to a pimp,” she said. Mariah. “Something in me was paralyzed by all that trauma. That’s why I often say, ‘I’m 12 forever. ‘ I keep struggling with that time.”

In response to the revelations of Mariah in his autobiography, Alison sued her sister and demanded $1.25 million as “compensation for the immense emotional distress caused by the merciless, cruel, vindictive, despicable and wholly unnecessary public humiliation inflicted by defendant” (via Daily Mail).

Alison had been living with HIV since 1990. To support her drug use, she also turned to prostitution — which resulted in arrests in 2016 and 2020.

Although representatives of Mariah confirm that the singer helped the family financially, Alison publicly asked his sister for help a few times. In 2015, for example, Alison She claimed that she was the victim of a home invasion that left damage to her vision and brain. Therefore, through a video, she asked for help with spinal surgery, physical therapy and treatments.

Last year, Alison appeared on TikTok without teeth. She claimed she didn’t have the money to replace them.