In reply to Mark111.

Definitely NOT true, Mariah has been through hell and back from the very beginning. Mariah grew up a racist neighbourhood where she and her family were constantly in danger: they received death threats, her pets were poisoned and someone even shot gun bullets through her windows, all because they were the only biracial family on the block. Mariah's older sister Allison was a drug addicted h-i-v positive sex-worker who lost custody to her kids, so Mariah and Patricia (MC's Mom) took financial care of them, as well as Mariah paying for her sister to go to rehab. Mariah then married Tommy Mottola who was her manager and intervened with many of her finances, and she spent years living with a control freak. The first time Mariah had creative control over her career was in her 30's which is why she slightly rebelled, but it was never in the vein of Britney's very public meltdown. Mariah is a true fighter!