Four years ago, on the phone. There were communications so she could see her niece and nephew. She took them to Serendipity 3 [in New York City] and gave them gift cards for Christmas. They were so happy — and then she just disappeared. They miss her and don’t understand why she cut them off.
How bad are your circumstances?
Decisions I’ve made in my life have hurt my children. They have no tree or presents for Christmas. We don’t have enough food. I haven’t been able to pay the rent this month. I can’t buy my daughter, who’s on her school’s honors list, the clothes she needs — not wants, needs.
Throwback pic of Alison Carey
Is it hard asking Mariah for help?
It’s harder when you have to go to the church outreach to ask for assistance with food or rent, and they can’t give it to you. And you don’t know if you’re going to end up on the street with your children. But I don’t want Mariah to think I only want her for her money, like everyone else does. I want her to love me again. I want her to be my sister again.
Alison Carey and Mariah Carey during happier times
What happened between you?
There’s been a lot of water under the bridge. I’ve done things that were wrong. She’s done things that were wrong. But I’ve reached out to her many, many times through the years in every way I could think of to try and ask for her forgiveness and see if we could start over. We are the only sisters each of us will ever have.
In June of this year (2015) she told Radar Online that she was trapped in a psychiatric ward against her will and begged for Mariah to com and rescue her. She didn’t remember how she ended up there with a gash on her head, but she did remember allegedly being robbed by a man:
“I don’t remember getting in a car with this person, and I don’t remember going to my house. But I remember being at my house and he was taking my jewelry,” she said.
“I need a lawyer to get me out of this hospital because there is no reason to keep me in here for three months.
At the end of her interview, Alison begged: “Please tell Mariah to get me out of here! She must know what’s happened to me! I want out!”
Based on Alison’s claims, it sounds like she and her lil’ sis’ have a whole lot of drama to mend before they can move forward. It seems like it has been hard for Alison to deal with her sister’s success, she even once admitted in a 1990’s era interview, that she was jealous of Mariah and her success. It’s a shame that Alison has not quite yet figured out how to step outside of her Mariah’s shadow, which is the worst place to be if she is not secure with herself first.
At the same time, there are so many layers to the tension between she and Mariah, that we cannot say that Mariah’s at fault either. Alison has admitted in the past that Mariah has paid tons of dollars for her to go to rehab and get her help. We wish her well and hopefully she will figure out another way to reach out to her sister because going to the media for the past few decades doesn’t seem to be working for her.
