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Mariah on Good Morning America
Superstar singer Mariah Carey is used to a whirlwind lifestyle but nothing could prepare
her for the difficulties she has faced this year, from giving birth to twins, to facing a
family health scare to, most recently, losing her friend and fellow singer, Whitney Houston.
"Where do I begin," Carey said today on "Good Morning America". "There's so many different
things that I went through." Describing herself as "almost incapable" still of talking about
Houston's death, Carey began there, reflecting on the "home-going" service she attended
Saturday for the 48-year-old singer who was found dead February 11 in the bathroom of her
hotel room at the Beverly Hilton hotel.
"It was great," she said of the nearly four-hour funeral attended by other A-list stars such
as Oprah Winfrey and Kevin Costner. "Such a class act, the way she went out and the way her
family dealt with it."
"I don't think people could ever understand our relationship," the 41-year-old singer said o
f Houston, with whom she recorded the hit "When You Believe" in 1998. "There was always this
supposed rivalry in the beginning and then we did the duet and became friends. I saw her
towards the end. I loved her. It's very heavy emotionally."
Also adding to the pain was Carey's learning of her friend's death while her family was going
through a health scare of its own, the Feb. 10 hospitalization of her husband, entertainer Nick
Cannon, for blood clots in his lungs. The hospitalization came a month after Cannon, 31, was
hospitalized and treated for kidney failure while the couple were vacationing in Aspen, Colo.,
with their 9-month-old twins.
"We didn't know how big a deal it was at that moment," Carey said of Cannon's initial
hospitalization in January. "It was a gradual thing. We ended up in a couple hospitals this
year already." The multi-employed Cannon was told by his doctors to slow down his professional
commitments and announced February 17 that he was stepping down as host of his daily radio
morning show.
"The best thing I think was the choice that he made to leave the radio show and just focus on
America's Got Talent and Up All Night," Carey said. "The thing is, he's a young healthy person.
It's about changing the lifestyle - and just an awareness of what can really happen to you no
matter how young or in great shape you are," she said. "I think, like he always does, he's
going to turn something that happened into a positive thing."
Carey chose to change her own lifestyle after she gave birth to the couple's twins, Moroccan
and Monroe, in April after a difficult pregnancy that saw her diagnosed with both gestational
diabetes and preeclampsia. She became a spokeswoman for Jenny Craig and lost 30 pounds herself
on the diet. She also co-directed and stars in a newly released public service announcement
marking February as Heart Awareness Month.
"When you carry twins, that is a whole other thing so, physically, I went through it," she said
of her pregnancy. "I had never dealt with a physical thing like that." Carey, who revealed she's
working on new music and hopes to wrap up a song as soon as next week, said her pregnancy battle,
combined with Cannon's health scare, woke her up.
"It's about getting to a place within yourself where you feel good," she said. "I think now more
than ever people need to focus on the health aspect of just life. I'm still reaching for my goals,
trying to get there."
(MariahCarey.com)
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| Wednesday 22 February 2012
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