The Grammy-winning megastar confirmed to People that both Patricia Carey and Alison Carey passed away on the same day over the weekend.”My heart is broken over the loss of my mother this past weekend,” Carey said about Patricia, who was 87 years old. “Tragically, my sister also lost her life on the same day.””I feel fortunate to have spent the last week with my mom before her passing,” she added. “I appreciate everyone’s love, support, and respect for my privacy during this incredibly difficult time.”Carey, 55, is the youngest of three siblings. Patricia and Alison are survived by Carey and her brother, Morgan Carey.The report did not disclose the causes of death for Patricia and Alison Carey, who was 63 at the time of her passing, according to the Times Union.Patricia was an opera singer and vocal coach, having trained at Juilliard.Carey and her mother performed a duet of “O Come All Ye Faithful” during the 2010 ABC holiday special “Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to You” (see video below).Mariah’s parents, Patricia and Alfred Roy Carey, divorced when she was 3 years old. The family lived in Huntington, Long Island.Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer, passed away from cancer in 2002 at the age of 72.
Mariah dedicated the song “Sunflowers for Alfred Roy” to him on her 2002 album “Charmbracelet.”In her 2020 memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” the singer described her relationship with her mother as complex.Carey also wrote about maintaining distance from her siblings, Alison and Morgan. The Times Union reported that she was estranged from Alison, who resided in Greene County, New York.”Like many aspects of my life, my relationship with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities,” Carey wrote. “It has never been simply black-and-white — it’s been a spectrum of emotions.”Those emotions included “pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration, and disappointment,” she said in the memoir, which she dedicated to Patricia Carey. “A complicated love ties my heart to my mother’s.”According to the Times Union, Alison Carey filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against Mariah in New York Supreme Court in 2020, claiming that her sister defamed her in the memoir by alleging that Alison had drugged her at age 12, caused third-degree burns, and tried to recruit her into sex work.