I'm trying to keep it together but I'm fall I used to sing with my mom when I was like really little we've been through a lot Mariah wrote my heart is broken but added she felt blessed to be able to spend the last week with her 87-year-old mom before she passed the singer was estranged from her sister Allison who coincidentally also died over the weekend hi I'm Allison Cary officials tell ET The 63-year-old Who battled substance abuse and was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 died of natural causes in Eastern New York State last year she posted about needing money to replace her teeth it's almost impossible to get things done without teeth Allison unsuccessfully tried to sue Mariah for $1.25 million over a claim in Mariah's Memoir that when the singer was 12 Allison tried to drug her and sell her out to a pimp can you refer to your sister as your ex- sister I never felt safe as for her mom well Mariah called their connection quote a prickly rope of Pride pain shame gratitude jealousy admiration and disappointment I knew for a long time that to my family I'd been an ATM machine with a wig on I gave them so much money especially my mother my mom's an opera singer and she was also a vocal coach while I was growing up here you are you're starting your career and your mom's singing and she says you should only hope that you could be half the singer that I am that one statement did live with me for the rest of my life Mariah also called out her mother for calling police in 2001 after a family fight at home and they took you off the police took you Mariah carry yeah yeah in the backseat of the police car I it's a vivid memory that I'll never forget but at that moment that seemed like a better alternative than where I was despite their ups and downs mother and daughter came together in 2010 for Mariah's Christmas special she played a major role in forming my character making me aware that you know it's possible to achieve something if you really believe in yourself [Music]