Mariah Carey opens up about affair with New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter
Singer discusses affair for the first time in her new memoir
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Your support makes all the difference.Mariah Carey has opened up about having an affair with New York Yankees baseball legend Derek Jeter while she was married to Tommy Mottola.
The musician writes about the affair, which was rumoured for years, in her upcoming memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
In the book, Carey writes that the affair with Mottola happened in the 1990s after they met at a dinner party and secretly began “text flirting”.
The singer reveals how her first meeting with Jeter took place on the rooftop of his New York City flat.
“I can never forget that moment,” Carey writes of that evening.
“I mean, it’s not like it was some intensely deep, intellectually stimulating — again, it was a great moment, and it happened in a divine way because it helped me get past living there, in Sing Sing, under those rules and regulations,” she added in reference to the home she shared with Mottola, which she named “Sing Sing” after a prison of the same name in New York.
Carey’s comments come after she recalled how she was made to feel “extremely uncomfortable” during a 2008 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, in which the pop star was pushed into revealing a pregnancy that she later miscarried.
Carey was a guest on DeGeneres’ US talk show when she was asked to either confirm or deny tabloid rumours that she was expecting a baby with then-husband Nick Cannon.
Despite Carey’s protests that she wanted to change the subject, DeGeneres offered Carey a glass of champagne to “toast not being pregnant”.
When DeGeneres spotted that Carey had faked sipping champagne from her glass, she shouted “You are pregnant!”
In 2010, Carey revealed that she was indeed pregnant at the time, but miscarried soon after the DeGeneres interview took place.
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