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Here are ten of Careys most shocking stories from the memoir.
Almost immediately John put his arm around me, she describes.
John pushed in closer and forced a hard kiss on me.
I was nauseous and scared; I felt immobilized.
A man noticed them, so John left.
She passed out and woke up in the hospital with third-degree burns on her back.
It took years before I could accept a simple pat on the back, Carey writes.
This, she says, was the last straw with Alison, whom she now calls her ex-sister.
Her arson was deliberateshe burned my back and my trust, Carey writes.
(In his 2013 memoirHitmaker, Mottola writes, Was I obsessive?
But that was also part of the reason for her success.)
The fights in front of music executives particularly stand out.
Mottola wasnt a fan of Puffy, so her response caused an epic Tommy tantrum, she writes.
As their marriage unraveled, he once threatened her in front of industry guests at their home.
After an awkward and creepy little rant, Carey says, Mottola held a butter knife to her face.
His boys watched and didnt say a word, she writes.
After she showed Da Brat around, she decided they should escape for French fries.
Carey took a car and drove to a Burger King a mile away.
Dupri quickly called to tell them to come back, because security had guns out and shit.
Carey remembers Da Brat telling her, you gotta get out of there.
When they returned, security was ready to go on a search, and Dupri was visibly shaken.
They yelled at him: Where is she [Da Brat]?
Tell us where she is!
She kept a secret apartment from Mottola
Carey started taking acting lessons to get away from Mottola.
She eventually rented the apartment connected to her acting teachers, which she could access by a private passageway.
It was sneaky, but I was at the end of my fucking rope!
I enrolled my assistant, she wrote.
Wed stage an errand and leave in her car, and I would talk to him.
Eventually, she and Jeter had a rooftop date, which inspired her song The Roof.
She claims Mottola sabotagedGlitter
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She maintains that herTRLcrash was planned
Careyscrashof MTVsTotal Request Livehas become the stuff of tabloid legend.
Carey then went to a backup singers apartment, where her brother Morgan finally found her.
Eventually, Morgan took her to a place she thought was a spa.
(Carey doesnt identify this as her 2001 breakdown hospitalization, but it happened around the same time.)
She claims they gave her heavy, hard narcotics.
I was in a fog much of the time, she remembers.
(Hello?!!
), Carey writes.
On her therapists advice, she is estranged from Morgan, whom Carey now refers to as her ex-brother.
Mariah, theyre playing games.
And Im not having the games.
So we wont be rehearsing this evening, Carey remembers Franklin telling her.
I was not broken.
I had been through so much worse.
All debacles are not created equal,dahhhhling.
