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Mariah Carey gets vocal about her emotional and physical breakdown

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Last Updated : Oct 09 2019 | 9:30 AM IST

American singer Mariah Carey recently opened up about her alleged breakdown in 2001 while discussing women in the music industry.

According to the magazine People, in a new cover story with Variety for its annual Power of Women issue, the musical superstar said, "It was an emotional and physical breakdown, but it wasn't a nervous breakdown, because you don't recover from that really."

"And even my therapist was like, 'You didn't have a breakdown; you had a diva fit and people couldn't handle it," she added.

While she always tried hard to keep a smile on her face even during difficult moments, Carey -- who spends more time with The Fresh Air Funds' Camp said that ultimately it was her downfall.

"These people are here making money off me; why don't they care if nobody's got an umbrella for me, and it's a sunny shoot? And the minute I was like, 'I'm not fine; I need a day off, I need a moment,'" she continued, "Nobody could handle it because they infantilized me from the beginning."

Now, the 49-year-old star acknowledges that she's "like a petulant child" -- and that's just fine for her.

"My true fans know this. I'm eternally 12," she said. "But we're artists.

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First Published: Oct 09 2019 | 9:16 AM IST

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