Known for her iconic Christmas songs, Mariah Carey revealed why the holiday is so special to her. During a recent interview, Carey explained why she is always so excited about Christmas, especially for her children.
“Darling, look, I know a lot of the time people are like, ‘Oh, yay! Look at her! She’s, like, so festive and such a Christmas girl,’ or whatever,” began the singer, 52.
“But, really, Christmas makes me happy. People think I had this princess-style life or whatever, a kind of fairy-tale existence where I just emerged, like, ‘Here I am!’ And that is not what it is.”
“When you grow up with a messed-up life and then you’re able to have this transformation where you can make your life what you want it to be? That is joy for me,” the All I Want for Christmas Is You crooner told the outlet.
Carey wrote in-depth in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, about her violent upbringing, per Page Six. In the book, she wrote how her “broken” big brother, Morgan Carey, was allegedly so “abusive” that she once called the cops on him for trying to hurt their mother.
According to Page Six, Mariah also alleged in her memoir that her older sister, Alison Carey, drugged her with a whole Valium when she was only 12 and left her with one of her sister’s boyfriends, who was allegedly packing a pistol on a creepy car ride.
“That’s why I want my kids to have everything they can have. I want them to be able to understand that they can be anything they want to be,” the singer said.
When asked what Christmas looked like in her house, Carey shared, “I create my own Christmas moment.” She continued, “I mean, Santa Claus visits us. He comes with his reindeer. I am not exaggerating—this is the truth. By the way, before my kids were born, I did all the same types of things. That’s just how it is with me and Santa and the reindeer.” thenews.com.pk