Mariah Carey ‘had no contact’ with sister Alison earlier than shock dying

Mariah Carey ‘had no contact’ with her older sister Alison Carey before her shock passing on the same day as their mother Patricia’s death. 

The Fantasy singer, 55, released a heartbreaking statement on Monday where she announced the deaths of her sibling, 63, and mom, 87 – and expressed her ‘heart is broken.’ 

Sources told TMZ on Tuesday that the Grammy winner did not reach out to Alison before her passing, and instead was by their mother’s side in the week leading up to her death. 

The sisters’ estrangement was caused by Alison’s years-long battle with drug addiction, the insiders informed the outlet. 

After many attempts to help her sibling, Mariah made the decision to cut Alison out of her life in order to not be ‘an enabler’ – and put distance between the pair. 

On Monday, Mariah said in a statement to People, ‘My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.’ 

‘I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed.’

In conclusion, the music artist added, ‘I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.’

The cause of her sister and mother’s deaths has yet to be disclosed. However, Alison’s close friend, Dave Barker told The U.S. Sun that Alison ‘was on home hospice care for the last three weeks of her life.’

She had issues with her ‘internal organs’ and Barker added, ‘I have known her for nine years and as her friend and in recent months her carer I will miss her greatly…’

Carey notably had a strained relationship with her mother, Patricia, as well as her sister Alison – whom she later became estranged from. 

The star also has a brother, Morgan Carey, 64, and their opera singer father, Alfred, passed away in 2002 at the age of 72. Mariah’s parents split when she was three-years-old.

Mariah said in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey that after extensive therapy, she decided to cease contact with both Alison and Morgan. 

‘For my sanity and peace of mind, my therapist encouraged me to literally rename and reframe my family … Morgan my ex-brother and Alison my ex-sister…’ 

‘I had to stop expecting them to one day miraculously become the … big brother and big sister I fantasized about,’ she wrote.

Mariah added: ‘I had to stop making myself available to be hurt by them. It has been helpful. I have no doubt it is emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact with my ex-brother and ex-sister.’

In the book, Mariah claimed that Alison tried to get her to use drugs and had ‘inflicted [her] with third-degree burns’ when she was a pre-teen, impacting her lifelong development.

‘When I was 12 years old, my sister drugged me with Valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine … and tried to sell me out to a pimp,’ Mariah said. ‘Something in me was arrested by all that trauma. That is why I often say, “I’m eternally 12.” I am still struggling through that time.’

In a September 2020 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mariah described Alison as ‘troubled and traumatized’ amid their upbringing.

The Someday singer recalled: ‘We don’t even really know each other, and that’s the thing. We didn’t grow up together, but we did. Like, they were on their journeys, by the time I got into the world, they had already been damaged, in my opinion.

‘But again, I wasn’t there. I was dropped into this world and I literally felt like an outsider amongst my own family.’

According to a 2015 New York Post report, Alison was mother to four children, pregnant for the first time at the age of 15, and having another child in 1988. She had two more children by 2002, the paper reported.

In the wake of the release of the book in September of 2020, Alison filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against the Grammy-winning artist in 2021.  

Alison had also been living with HIV since 1990, as the reported in 2005 that she had been HIV-positive ‘for at least 15 years.’

She said in her 2021 suit that she had been living with a brain injury following a violent home invasion she was the victim of in 2015. She said that the incident impacted her vision and short-term memory.

In a video that circulated last autumn, Alison said that she had lost all of her teeth and was unable to afford any dental restoration treatments.

A source told the Post in June 2005 that Alison had ‘been in rehab at least 10 times – many times financed by Mariah.’

While ‘Mariah isn’t one to give up on people,’ she was ‘having to learn that you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped,’ an insider said in the report.

One source told the outlet that ‘Mariah, especially, wanted a reconciliation’ with her older sister in 2002 after their father’s death.

‘She thought it was important to try and have something good come out of an awful situation,’ an insider told the outlet.

Following their father’s passing, Alison inherited $1 million, but was not financially prudent with the money.

Alison returned to prostitution ‘around the time the money ran out,’ a source told the outlet.

In March of 2016, Alison filmed a video published by Dailymail.com in which she appealed to her famed sibling for financial assistance after the 2015 attack that left her injured.

She said, ‘Mariah, I love you. I desperately need your help. Please don’t abandon me like this.’