NEW YORK -- If you were passing by one of Manhattan's
ubiquitous recording studios the other night and saw a dishy,
petite and exhausted female strecthed out on the front of her
car taking a nap -- well, you were viewing Mariah Carey "in
action," so to speak. (One of two assistants stood by, guarding
her.)
The multi-platinum recording diva is strecthed to the max these
days. She is not only fighting hayfever, but fighting time --
running between studios ... recording recording a new song,
Honey, which will be the first single on her new album ...
negotiating a big movie deal .. and setting up a big world tour.
And the biggest sress of all -- Mariah continues to fight nasty
speculation surrounding her recent split from Sony music titan
Tommy Mottola. Although both Tommy and Mariah categorize
their separation as "amicable," other voices from other rooms
beg to disagree. Mariah, faced with the gossip, sighed and
said to me, "Some people just have to create drama and jump
to hateful conclusions and concort things."
I don't know for sure if Mariah was referring obliquely to the
negative story on her marriage published in Vanity Fair
not long ago, but she says she wants to get the following on
record: "My talent is a gift for which I am grateful. And I am
lucky to do something I love so much for a living. I am now in a
new place. I've always written and co-produced my work, but
now I'm doing even more on my own. As for Tommy, we still
talk every day. We love each other very much. We will always
be family. I would never want Tommy not to be a part of my life,
but at this point it's best for us to live apart. W are going to
continue our professional relationship no matter what. Tommy
is brilliant, a great businessman, in a class by himself. In fact,
we are getting along better since we've been apart."
I asked the weary Mariah, who said she'd been up all night
working, whether she and Mottola might ever get back together.
"Well, I never say never ... anything could happen. but right
now w are standing by our original statement. And I am taking
some time, getting to know what it feels like to be on my own.
"And before you ask -- no, there's no 'other person' invloved
in our separation."
Liz Smith, The Toronto Sun, Sunday June 22, 1997
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