Mariah Carey is speaking out on rumors she's a diva and on her passion for the holiday season!
The "All I Want for Christmas is You" singer opened up about being a "diva" in a new interview with W Magazine. She said, "There are things people are not aware of, because this whole quote-unquote 'diva' thing is always what people see first... Yes, I play into it. And yes, part of that is real. I can’t help it. Like, what do you do if you grew up with an opera singer for a mother, who went to Juilliard and made her debut at Lincoln Center? ...There’s just a certain amount that is going to emerge. So, yes, it’s just an affectation, and sometimes it’s purposely done, and sometimes it’s just, like, you know, a response."
As far as Christmas goes, Carey was setting the record straight on that too. She told W, "Darling, look, I know a lot of the time people are like, 'Oh, yay! Look at her! She’s, like, so festive and such a Christmas girl,' or whatever. But, really, Christmas makes me happy. People think I had this princess-style life or whatever, a kind of fairy-tale existence where I just emerged, like, 'Here I am!' And that is not what it is... I doubt you have enough time to write about all that, so we won’t go into it. But when you grow up with a messed-up life and then you’re able to have this transformation where you can make your life what you want it to be? That is joy for me....That’s why I want my kids to have everything they can have. I want them to be able to understand that they can be anything they want to be."
The unofficial Queen of Christmas has spoken.
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