LOS ANGELES — Mariah Carey’s mother Patricia and sister Alison both died on the same day, the singer said Monday.

“I am heartbroken to have lost my mother this past weekend. Unfortunately, in a tragic turn of events, my sister also lost her life that same day,” the Grammy winner said in a statement.

“I feel blessed to have been able to spend the last week with my mother before she passed away,” the statement continued. “I am grateful for everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.”

The Times Union reported Monday that Alison, who had long been estranged from Carey, died at age 63 from organ problems and was under hospice care.

People Magazine first reported the news of her death and Carey’s statement.

Patricia was a Juilliard-trained opera singer who Carey said was an inspiration to her from a young age.

“I sang little tunes all over the house, to my mother’s delight. And she always encouraged me,” she wrote in her 2020 memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey.”

Patricia was previously married to Alfred Roy Carey, the singer’s father. Her parents divorced when the “Vision of Love” singer was three years old. Carey grew up in Suffolk County on Long Island and lived mainly with her mother after her parents divorced. Her father died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 72.

Carey described her complicated relationship with her mother and sister in detail in her memoir. She wrote that she and her mother often clashed, causing her “so much pain and confusion,” and blamed her sister for putting her in dangerous situations as a child.

“Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother was full of contradictions and competing realities. It was never just black and white – it was a whole rainbow of emotions,” Carey wrote in the book. “Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A complicated love connects my heart to my mother’s.”

Carey kept in touch with her mother and even recorded a duet of “O Come All Ye Faithful/Hallelujah Chorus” for the singer’s second Christmas album in 2010.

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