Mariah Carey is opening up about her former marriage to music mogul Tommy Mottola.
The 56-year-old singer married the former CEO of Sony Music Entertainment back in 1993 and they separated in late 1996. Their divorce was finalized in March 1998.
In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, Mariah talked about her marriage and Tommy‘s controlling influence over her music.
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“Sometimes I feel angry about that time, but I think I’ve made peace with it – in any case, I vowed I’d stop talking about it,” Mariah told the mag. “Humour is my release, and people who know me know that. I’ll make little jokes about what happened because otherwise I could make every day a sob story. It’s a coping mechanism, but it’s in my nature to laugh.”
She added of his influence on her career, “I wanted to do more R&B, more urban music, and any time I would bring that up, it would get shot down. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the music I was making – I just felt there was more inside me that I wanted to release.”
The September issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK is on sale from 31 July.
Mariah is currently promoting her upcoming 16th studio album!
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