Alison Carey (Mariah Carey's older sister) | "American Journal" interview [February 6, 1995] 

Story:
This interview is about Alison Carey, the older sister of music superstar, Mariah Carey. Alison Ann Carey was born to Alfred Roy Carey and Patricia Carey on August 7, 1961. The story begins with Alison and her mother, who picked up her 7-year-old son, Michael Scott for what Alison thought was a regular weekend visit, but shockingly, instead Patricia took him from Alison due to her history of illegal drug use and prostitution. Alison said that she has done this routine weekend visit before with her son between her and her mother. Mariah's sister, Alison has not had the happiest life, much less the easiest one, sometime after Alison's 15th birthday in 1976, she got married to a man named Richard McDonald, and became a mother that following year on May 23, 1977, which was the same time she dropped out of high school, she had her first child, a son and they named him Shawn, and according to Alison, she felt the need to help provide for her son and her new family, so she went out to try and find a job, but she claims that she couldn't find one because nobody wanted to hire her and that she never had any experiences doing anything. She knew that she had to get a job and that it was important for her and her son, but again she couldn't find one. But Alison didn't become a stay-at-home mom either, so instead, she turned to the streets for money, became a prostitute and got into illegal drug use after. In 1980, after 4 years of marriage, both Alison and Richard divorced, and eventually, somehow at an unknown point, Patricia got custody of Shawn. Alison was married to her second husband, a man named Dale Scott in 1985 when Alison was 23 or 24, and had her second son, Michael in 1987 sometime after Alison turned 26. But when Michael was nearly one year old, Alison's life had fallen into a downward spiral of depression and deep despair, and then that following year in late-1988, Alison's life had taken turn for the worse when Alison was 27, she tested positive for HIV. In 1989 after 4 years of marriage, Alison and Dale divorced. When Patricia came to pick up Michael for a weekend visit on Friday, December 3, 1994, and was supposed to return him on Sunday evening December 5th, but she didn't. Patricia decided to take the power of "Child Protection Services" into her own hands and take him herself and keep him at her home. The early and mid-'90s was another era in Alison's life when things were going very badly for her when she was in and out of drug rehab and also after her son was taken away from her by her mother which then turned into a serious custody battle. Inspite of all the help, Alison bitterly admitted her jealousy toward Mariah, and she acted so very ungrateful and arrogant about it. The story of this crisis was first written in Linda Stasi's column in the "New York Daily News" in December 1994. It involves Alison, her son, Michael, and Patricia, and Alison believed that Mariah had arranged a trust fund personally for Michael. In early-mid-1973 before Alison turned 12, their parents Alfred Roy and Patricia separated and divorced due to the interracial discrimination against their marriage. Still, it's unknown whether or not it was also under any terms of it being a bad marriage, so she and their brother, Morgan Carey was sent to live with Alfred Roy while Mariah remained with Patricia. For Mariah on the other hand, life at a later point turned out different, anyone with a radio or TV was about to know the name "Mariah Carey". Mariah dedicated her debut album to Alison 5 years earlier before this interview in the summer of 1990 when Mariah was 20 and Alison was 28, but close to turning 29. During Alison's TV interviews, she believed the album dedication was only meant to make Mariah look like a good loving sister and only for publicity, so she was quoted as saying "I'm sorry I just think that's kind of beneath contempt". During the early-1990s at the start of Mariah's singing career, she was a young woman in her early 20's and Alison was a grown woman in her late 20's and early 30's Mariah had paid so much hard-earned money so many times in 4 years and a 1/2, between the summer of 1990 until Christmas of 1994 to have Alison put in drug rehab, but I don't know if there was any progress made or not. The custody trial was scheduled to begin the next month in March 1995 meanwhile the judge awarded temporary custody to Patricia, Alison however failed to show up for one of the case hearings, she said she was sick. Alison is in my prayers, and I hope and pray with all my heart and soul that everything turns out better and happier for her. Alison's previous interview, which was her first one, was recorded and broadcasted on the "A Current Affair" news in mid-December 1994 during the same time her son was taken.
Song credits:
I Don't Wanna Cry (From the album "Mariah Carey") [1990]
Vision Of Love (From the album "Mariah Carey") [1990]
Hero (From the album "Music Box") [1993]
.