MARIAH Carey and her husband Nick Cannon hit the red carpet Sunday night for the Los Angeles premiere of her new movie Precious.
Precious – which also stars Lenny Kravitz and a couple of actors I’ve never heard of — hits movie theaters November 6.
Carey, 39, recently denied claims that she’s a diva — insisting journalists have given her that label because the media is desperate to put her in a box.
“At its heart, I think it’s lazy journalism,” she told UK newspaper the Daily Mirror when asked about her reputation as a diva. “I was on the first Divas Live show and that seemed to kick the whole thing off.
“You know, my mother — who was an opera singer — used to use the term as a compliment; it meant a very talented singer. But I looked it up in the dictionary recently and now it also means a difficult and demanding woman.
“I guess people like to put you in a little box, and that box fits me because I have the big hair, and I wear the tight dresses on stage. But that doesn’t mean I’m difficult or nasty.
“I remember a story in the British press, saying I’d demanded rose petals be scattered on the carpet of a London hotel when I arrived. The truth is, we’d just landed, it was 3am and all I wanted to do was go straight to my room.
“The back entrance would have been fine, never mind rose petals! I’d never ask for anything like that. But that sort of stuff is written about me, so I’ve just learned to shake it off.”
[Pic: David Gabber]
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