Mariah Carey Spills All on Overbearing Marriage to Tommy Mottola, Sneaking Around With Derek Jeter and More in Memoir

The Meaning of Mariah Carey (unfortunately she used the better title, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, for her 2009 album). In it, Mazza Cazza puts the record straight on everything from family betrayal to her marriage to Nick Cannon, as well as revealing the inspiration behind her late-90s banger My All: a steamy, boozy, illicit night with the baseball player Derek Jeter.

Mariah Carey threw some shade in her ongoing feud with Jennifer Lopez in her brand new memoir, “The Meaning Of Mariah.”

Mariah Carey got candid about the intimate details of her brief relationship with Derek Jeter in her new memoir. The singer met the former baseball pro prior to her divorce from Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola.

, and in it she casually talked about her "sensual" hookup with Derek Jeter.In the instantly classic book, Mariah opens up about meeting Jeter at a dinner party in 1997. According to , they started falling for each other after sharing their experiences with being biracial, and eventually started talking in secret—which lead to "a warm, slow, intoxicating kiss" on Jeter's roof.

Fans may have been shocked to read that Mariah Carey cheated with Derek Jeter while married to Tommy Mottola. In her new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, which hit shelves on Tuesday, September 29, the “We Belong Together” singer revealed that she had an affair with the professional baseball player while married to her first husband in the ’90s.

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission.

Mariah Carey‘s die hard Lambs are familiar with the name Tommy Mottola. But her newer fans are about to get a lesson on her long-ago first marriage to the music mogul when the 50-year-old’s songbird’s memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey is released on September 29.

Mariah Carey recently told Oprah Winfrey that she hopes her ex-husband, Tommy Mottola, doesn't hate the way he's depicted in her upcoming memoir, and according to a statement he gave to ET, he's not bothered at all.Carey was married to Mottola from 1993 to 1998.

Mariah Carey has confessed her romance with Derek Jeter was the last straw during her marriage to music mogul Tommy Mottola, talking candidly about her upcoming Memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey on  The Oprah Conversation  Mariah revealed Jeter was “a catalyst” that helped her take the decision of divorcing Mottola.The famous singer wrote two songs inspired by the former New York Yankees star, The Roof and My All, after they “secretly flirted” via text and shared a “clandestine kiss” on the

Mariah Carey opened up about dating Derek Jeter in the late 1990s as her marriage to Tommy Mottola came to an end.“He was a catalyst that helped me get out of that relationship because I believed that there was somebody else [out there for me],” the five-time Grammy winner, 50, told Oprah Winfrey on Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation on Thursday, September 24.“It was the racial situation — you know, his mom is Irish, his dad is Black — but he was also very ambiguous looking to me,” she recalled.

Mariah Carey‘s life would be so different today had she never met her old flame Derek Jeter!

Mariah Carey credits former New York Yankee Derek Jeter with inspiring her to leave her emotionally abusive marriage to music executive Tommy Mottola.In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey on AppleTV+'s The Oprah Conversation, Carey shared details about her forthcoming memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, and dished about her affair with the baseball star, who played a pivotal role in her achieving her own independence.

explosive new book coming out — and she’s dropping some truth bombs on Oprah Winfrey.The “Hero” singer-songwriter revealed Wednesday night via Instagram that she’s in “The Oprah Conversation” hot seat Thursday on Apple TV+.“I couldn’t have asked for a better way to introduce my memoir than having a conversation with my friend, therapist and icon Ms. @oprah, on her series @theoprahconversation,” Carey, 50, hyped in her Insta post.