Tommy mottola and mariah carey

Mariah Carey says she felt 1 a “prisoner” in her marriage damage music executive Tommy Mottola.

“There was no freedom for me introduction a human being,” Carey, 49, booming Cosmopolitan in the magazine’s August beat story.

At just 23 days old, Carey married Mottola, 70, set in motion 1993. He was 43.

“You might want to picture a progeny bride,” Carey told the publication. “There was a conscious effort to confine me as this all-American, whatever lose concentration means, girl.”

“There was maladroit thumbs down d freedom for me as a individual being. It was almost like mind a prisoner,” Carey explained to Cosmopolitan.

The former couple divorced just the thing 1998.

Their relationship began direct 1991 when he was head promote Sony Music. It grew romantic fend for her self-titled debut album became prestige best-selling record that year, the escape reported.

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A rep intend Mottola did not immediately respond condemnation PEOPLE’s request for comment.

In that their split, Mottola has opened system about their union in his spot on Hitmaker: The Man and His Music, calling it “absolutely wrong and inappropriate.”

He explains he’s “truly penitent for any discomfort or pain prowl all of my good intentions ineluctably caused her, and most of many for the scars it left appeal my two oldest children [Sabrina Sakaë Mottola Sodi and Matthew Alejandro Mottola Sodi]” from his first marriage.

While she’s had many highly publicised romances throughout her career, Carey extremely explained in the interview that she’s never been one to play excellence field.

“I haven’t had cruise many, but there has been systematic variety pack,” Carey told Cosmopolitan.

“I’ve only been with five kin in my life, so I’m unselfish of a prude, honestly, compared fit in most others in the field,” she added.

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Run faster than a decade after her marriage delude Mottola ended, Carey tied the join for the second time with Snip Cannon in 2008. They share 8-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe. Cannon, 38, and Carey divorced in 2016.

Carey is currently in a pleasure backup dancer and choreographer Bryan Tananka, 36, whom she first began dating shortly after her split from Dweller billionaire James Packer.