Mariah Carey Covers Harper’s Bazaar UK / Dishes on New Album, Documentary, & Biographical TV Show

Mariah Carey graces the cover of Harper's Bazaar, and inside the elusive chanteuse isn't holding back on a plethora of topics.

In the article she dished on her upcoming album Here For It All, her marriage to Tommy Mottola, an upcoming TV series based on her life as well as a new documentary.

On Her Memoir:

“Working on it together was challenging, but it was also therapeutic. We stayed up late figuring out how we were going to put the story forth. I knew it was going to bring up bad memories I didn’t want to relive. It was a tough situation to go to sleep listening to it… I’d wake up and be kind of freaked out. Because this is me and I went through that.

On Veering Towards R&B:

“I wanted to do more R&B, more urban music, and any time I would bring that up, it would get shot down,” she says. “It wasn’t that I didn’t like the music I was making – I just felt there was more inside me that I wanted to release.” Only once she brought out the 1997 album Butterfly, with its hip-hop elements, did she sense that she was being true to herself (“I felt free for the first time”).

On Receiving Criticism Good or Bad:

“It’s nice when people say good things and give you a good response, and then if they don’t like it, and they don’t say good things, you have to be able to push that away, let that go, you know?” she muses. “Because why, at this point in my life, would I really be worried about that stuff?”

Excerpt on Listening to New Stars Like Sabrina Carpenter:

Later, she reveals that she enjoys the songs of Tate McRae, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo – but only because she likes to keep up with what’s on her teenage daughter’s playlist.

Excerpt on Co-Parenting:

Other than music, her children are, she says, the major loves of her life. Moroccan (‘Roc’) and Monroe (‘Roe’) are 14-year-old twins from her marriage to the former America’s Got Talent host Nick Cannon, which began in 2008 following a whirlwind courtship and ended six years later. (She is now rumoured to be dating the musician Anderson .Paak, though she will not go into detail on this, other than to acknowledge that she is “a romantic”.) With Cannon – who has fathered 12 children and last year shared that he had been diagnosed with “narcissistic personality disorder” – she co-parents the twins. “How do I say this? They spend time with him, and they have a good time; they spend time with me, and they have a good time,” she says carefully. “I want to make sure I’m always fair about the situation because it’s tough to grow up with divorced parents.”

On Her Upcoming TV Series, Documentary, & More:

As well as trailing new music, she is working on a documentary about her life and a scripted series adapted from her memoir. I doubt that she will ever retire, but, once again, she has a quip ready: “I might go hang out with Santa Claus in the North Pole.” If Mariah Carey wants Father Christmas to exist, I’m sure she’ll make it happen.

On Her Marriage To Tommy Mottola:

“Sometimes I feel angry about that time, but I think I’ve made peace with it – in any case, I vowed I’d stop talking about it,” Carey stated.

The music superstar added that she tries to laugh off that period of her life.

“Humor is my release, and people who know me know that,” she told the magazine. “I’ll make little jokes about what happened because otherwise I could make every day a sob story.”

“It’s a coping mechanism,” Carey added, “but it’s in my nature to laugh.”

By then, the couple had already separated; they finalized their divorce in March 1998.

Mariah's new album “Here for It All” comes out Sept. 26,