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Mariah Carey says her sister nearly sold her out to a pimp at age 12

In "The Meaning of Mariah Carey," out now, the famous songstress details her troubled childhood and sheds light on the bitterness between herself and her “ex-” older siblings, Morgan and Alison Carey. She claims Morgan, 60, was very violent, once hurling their mother, Patricia Carey, into a wall, knocking her out cold, and was put in a children’s psychiatric center for “seriously emotionally troubled children.” The bad blood with Alison, 58, ran deeper, with Mariah claiming she “tried to sell me out to a pimp” when she was 12.

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