Mariah Carey has been open about her tumultuous upbringing, and the latest twist in her family saga has left her reeling. “My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend,” the six-time Grammy-winning singer revealed on August 26. “Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.”
Mariah, 55, was born in Huntington, New York, the youngest of three kids to Alfred, an aeronautical engineer from Harlem, and Patricia, a Juilliard-trained opera singer and vocal coach from Illinois. Her parents split when she was 3, and Patricia raised her, along with her brother, Morgan, and sister, Alison. Mariah had a strained relationship with her dad, but they mended fences in the months leading up to his death from bile duct…