Mariah Carey says that when she was 12 years old, her sister drugged her and tried to “sell her out to a pimp.”The shocking claim is detailed in her new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
In it, Carey describes her older sibling Allison giving her tranquilizers and cocaine before physically attacking her and trying to force her into prostitution.During a recent appearance on AppleTV+’s The Oprah Conversation promoting the upcoming book, host Oprah Winfrey read the passage aloud: “When I was 12 years old, my sister drugged me with Valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine, inflicted me with third-degree burns and tried to sell me out to a pimp.”“Yeah, that was a thing,” said Carey.