The singer told Harper's Bazaar that the former Sony Music CEO tried to keep her in a mainstream pop lane despite her efforts to swerve.

Mariah Carey still has complicated feelings about her ex-husband Tommy Mottola. The “Touch My Body” singer, 56, made rare comments about her first marriage in an interview published Monday for the September 2025 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK.

Mariah Carey has opened up about her complicated feelings surrounding her first marriage to Tommy Mottola. After sending Mottola, the Sony Music CEO, her demo tape, the pair began a romantic relationship and married in 1993—he was 21 years her senior. The pair divorced three years later.