Mariah Carey said that she had "no freedom" in the first marriage: "as being a prisoner"
The singer married the CEO of her label at 23.
At the same time Mariah Carey The career in music takes off, she lived one of the most difficult periods of her personal life. And the two were closely intertwined - Carey was married to Tommy Mottola , the head of Sony Music, who had signed him in Columbia Records at the age of 18. The couple divorced after five years, and the "fantastic" singer would later express that she felt controlled by her first husband. In an interview, she even said that she felt like "a prisoner" in this relationship.
Read the rest to find out more about Carey's first marriage, the consequences and what she had to say about Mottola since.
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Carey and Mottola were married in 1993.
Carey and Mottola made the knot in 1993, three years after the release of his first album, Mariah Carey . The rising star was 23 years old, while the director of the record, who was a 19 -year -old wedding three years earlier, was 45 years old. Their sumptuous marriage would have cost $ 500,000, which would cost about $ 1 million today.
Carey said she had "no freedom" in their relationship.
In a 2019 interview with Cosmopolitan ,, Carey said her marriage to Mottola , "You may want to imagine a married child. There was a conscious effort to keep me like this All-American, whatever it means, girl. It was very controlled. There was no freedom for Me as a human being. It was almost like being a prisoner. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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She also said that he had tried to isolate him.
In his autobiography 2020 The meaning of Mariah Carey , Carey said Mottola was the decision maker behind everything she was doing.
"I had the impression that he cut my traffic, keeping myself of my friends and what a little" family "I had," wrote Carey ( via US Weekly ). "I couldn't talk to anyone who was not under the control of Tommy. I couldn't go out or do anything with anyone. I couldn't move freely in my own house." She added: "Many reasonable people asked why I married Tommy. But none of them questioned the decision more than me."
Carey also believes that Mottola tried to sabotage the release of her 2001 film Shine . "There was no way to allow me to have a huge success after leaving it and Sony. He was not going to leave me or Shine shine, "she said in the book ( via The mirror ).
Mottola apologized for the way he treated it.
According to People , Mottola later Called his relationship with Carey "Absolutely false and inappropriate" in his 2013 book Hitmaker: Man and his music .
He also wrote ( via Page Six ), "If it seemed to be controlled, allow me to apologize again. Was I obsessive? Yes. But that was also part of the reason for his success ... The problem was that I was the president of Sony and her husband at the same time. "
Asked about the memories of his ex-wife, Mottola said Page Six , "I am deeply rewarded for having played this role in Mariah's well -deserved and remarkable success, and I continue to wish her and her family only the best."
They separated after four years.
Carey and Mottola separated in 1997 and divorced in 1998. His case with the baseball player Derek throw away What led the singer to end her unhappy relationship.
Carey wrote in her book that Falling for the Sports Star made her realize that she "could have something beautiful on the other side of hell who was [her] marriage". She added that he was "the catalyst [she] needed to go out under the paralyzing control of Tommy".
She continued to marry the actor Nick Canon In 2008; They broke in 2016. And Mottola was married to his third wife, Singer Thalía , since 2000.
