When you have the kind of superstar status and hefty bank balance that Mariah Carey does, you can most definitely call the shots when it comes to the media.
With her autobiography, The Meaning of Mariah Carey hot off the press, the self-confessed diva has decided she wants to put a stop to doing any more interviews. The reason? Carey told the Guardian that everything she needs to say is already in her book, “No offence to doing interviews, but what would be the point? I can’t articulate it better than I already have (in the book).”
Carey took to Instagram to celebrate the release of her memoirs which is widely available both online and in bookstores, there is even an audio version of the book narrated by Carey herself.
She says of the memoir: “It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it’s been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or a ten-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else’s lens, largely satisfying someone else’s assignment to define me”.
“This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival and my songs. Unfiltered. I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice. I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant woman I became tell her side”.
“Writing this memoir was incredibly hard, humbling and healing. My sincere hope is that you are moved to a new understanding, not only about me but also about the resilience of the human spirit”.
