Mariah Carey said she’s «sometimes angry» about her marriage to ex-husband Tommy Mottola in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
Mariah Carey still has complicated feelings about her ex-husband Tommy Mottola.
The “Touch My Body” singer, 56, made rare comments about her first marriage in an interview published Monday for the September 2025 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK.
“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,” Carey stated.
The music superstar added that she tries to laugh off that period of her life.
“Humor is my release, and people who know me know that,” she told the magazine. “I’ll make little jokes about what happened because otherwise I could make every day a sob story.”
“It’s a coping mechanism,” Carey added, “but it’s in my nature to laugh.”
Carey began dating Mottola, 77, in 1991. At the time, Mottola was the head of Sony Music and signed Carey to her first recording contract with Columbia Records.
