Derek Jeter played a big part inMariah Carey's life, both on a personal level and musically. The former New York Yankees shortstop met Carey in 1998 shortly before her divorce from her music producer husband, Tommy Mottola. «He was a catalyst that helped me get out of that relationship because I believed there was somebody else,» Carey explains to Oprah Winfrey in the new Apple TV+ series . She added that Jeter being biracial also played a big part in her connection with the athlete. «It was the