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Wednesday January 28, 2009

Mariah Carey has blasted recent claims that she snubbed Barack Obama at his Presidential Inauguration on January 20 – insisting a “ruckus” caused by over-enthusiastic fans forced her to flee the event.

The New York Post reported earlier this month that Carey angrily left the ceremony after discovering she would be sat with other celebrities, instead of standing alongside Obama on the podium. “Mariah was in the VIP area, where every celebrity, like Jon Bon Jovi, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and Bruce Springsteen, was seated,” a source told the paper. “But somehow she thought she’d be up with the Obama family. When she realized she wasn’t, she bailed.”

But Carey has spoken out against the reports.

Her rep says, “When she and Nick arrived in their section, she was surrounded by fans, but unfortunately it caused too much of a ruckus and it became a little unsafe. She was then escorted to safety by police.”