*Mariah Carey is sharing her thoughts on being labeled a diva in a new interview with W Magazine.
The music icon admits that she often plays into it, saying: “What do you do if you grew up with an opera singer for a mother, who went to Juilliard and made her debut at Lincoln Center?” Carey tells the publication. “There’s just a certain amount that is going to emerge.”
She recently told Paper Magazine that when people around her label her a diva, Carey can’t help but think, “Honey, you don’t know what a diva is, you didn’t grow up with my mom.”
“I mean it as a compliment,” she added. “I wouldn’t be the person I am without experiencing that.”
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In August, Meghan Markle welcomed Mariah to her Archetypes podcast where they discussed being biracial women, their natural hair, and the definition of “diva”.
At one point Carey accused the Duchess of Sussex of having “diva moments” after Markle noted that she does not “connect to” the “diva … persona.”
“You give us diva moments sometimes, Meghan,” the singer said. “Don’t act like [you don’t].”
“What kind of diva moments did I give you?” the former actress responded. As reported by Page Six, Carey clarified that she meant Markle’s “visual[s]” and not her personality.
“It stopped me in my tracks … when she called me a diva!” the duchess narrates in the podcast, as reported by Vulture. “You couldn’t see me, obviously, but I, I started to sweat a little bit. She meant diva as a compliment,” she continues. “But I heard it as a dig. I heard it as the word diva as I think of it. But in that moment, as she explained to me, she meant it as chic, as aspirational. And how one very charged word can mean something different for each of us — it’s mind-blowing to me.”
Elsewhere in her W Magazine interview, Carey noted that she does not have a relationship with time, saying “I don’t acknowledge time. I don’t know her.”
