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Mariah Carey announces death of mother and sister on same day

Grammy winner asks for privacy as she mourns Patricia and Alison, saying: ‘My heart is broken’

Mariah Carey’s mother, Patricia, and sister, Alison, both died on the same day, the singer said Monday. “Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment,” Carey wroter of her mother in the book. Still, Carey maintained contact with her mother and they even recorded a duet of O Come All Ye Faithful/Hallelujah Chorus for the singer’s second Christmas album in 2010.

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