No pop star inspires more rampant rumours. As the diva drops a tell-all memoir, we separate fact from fabulous fiction
Last week Mariah Carey finally released her long-awaited memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey (unfortunately she used the better title, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, for her 2009 album). In it, Mazza Cazza puts the record straight on everything from family betrayal to her marriage to Nick Cannon, as well as revealing the inspiration behind her late-90s banger My All: a steamy, boozy, illicit night with the
baseball player Derek Jeter. Over Mariah’s 30-year pop career, she has been dogged by rumours of being, well, a bit of a diva – not helped by her reality show, which showed the
Singer insisting that restaurants only played her
music, wearing sunglasses indoors and being carried around by topless backing dancers. So is Mariah really a huge diva? We investigate the myths about the singer and settle them once and for all …