“I’d like to apologize for my tardiness. You probably won’t believe me, and they’ll probably make a big thing of it, ‘oh Mariah had to get her doctor in’, but I got sick yet again because it’s winter, I didn’t think I could come out here tonight.
“But I was very grateful I could get some sleep and we could pull it together. It’s not so glam at 6.30 in the morning when you’re coughing and sounding like a frog.”

I think she’s full of it, but it’s Mariah Carey — what did the audience expect!

She wouldn’t be a diva if she showed up on time!

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Early in the evening, Pop Tarts spotted the songstress walking around a back hall with Daniels holding her up – however Carey wasn’t ashamed to later admit she was, well, a little worse for wear and had too much of … something.

“Please forgive me because I’m a little bit… yeah (laughs) oh my goodness,” she rambled while accepting the honor and going on and on about being called a “kitten” and a “Queen to Diva” (among other nonsensical things) before eventually thanking the flabbergasted audience for listening to her “spiel.”

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(Mind you, hubby Nick Cannon was also scheduled to attend the classy event but was suddenly a no show on the night.)

Sean Penn was next to take the stage after Carey and immediately seized the opportunity to spark some laughs at the pop princess’s expense.

“I plan to do this (presenting an award) in absolute sobriety, forgive me if I squeak,” Penn said.

Even writer/director Diablo Cody couldn’t help but take to her Twitter account to express her amusement.

“Mariah Carey just gave the most awesome acceptance speech,” Cody tweeted.”Someone else will probably describe it better than I can. Wow.”

Perhaps the “Butterfly” beauty is just clinging to her youth – after all, Carey told Tarts before the show that she refuses to acknowledge turning 41 this March.

“I don’t have birthdays, I have anniversaries,” Carey explained. “So that’s the really interesting thing because people ask me what is the secret for eternal youth, this guy asked me the other day. I said, ‘just pretend you’re 12.’”

And although she also said that “dressing down” and going makeup-free for her critically-acclaimed role as a social worker in “Precious” was very “humbling,” apparently our favorite diva did do all she could to have the “character description” changed to something a little more pleasing to the eye.

“She tried, she’s [going to] kill it for me too. I can’t believe I just busted it for her,” Daniels told us. “She did not want the hair dyed, then she wanted blush, lipstick. I gave her a little nail polish but that’s it. She was a wreck. I put her in rayon and polyester and her little hands were shaking. What’s that about? Mariah get over yourself.”

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Nick Cannon has revealed that he found his wife’s performance in her new movie so moving that it brought him to tears. We can’t help but wonder if he was crying because Carey was so awesome in the film or because he was overwhelmed with joy that his wife doesn’t really have a moustache in real life.

Speaking to MTV News on the red carpet
at the film’s L.A. premiere, Cannon said, “I mean, the performance was phenomenal – clearly one of the best.”

Cannon also revealed that it was difficult for Mariah Carey to unwind from her days working on “Precious,” as the subject matter was so heavy, to say the least. “Precious” follows the story of a teenage girl who has been emotionally and physically abused her whole life, and forced to have an incestuous relationship with her father. (The preview alone makes us want to hurl ourselves off a building.)

Said Cannon, “Every person can take something away from this. It was a heavy role – to come down from that you have to stop yourself. And stop yourself again.” As for all those tears he’s shedding, Cannon explained, “I didn’t read the script, but the movie made me cry. I think it’s, like, my fifth time. It gets better every time.”

But the premiere wasn’t all tears and incest talk. Mariah added some levity to Sunday night’s event, talking about how she was made hideous for her role as a social worker in the film. Speaking to Usmagazine.com Carey said, “It wasn’t just de-glamorized. They added some hideousness on top of that too. I drank some ugly juice.”

We guess that even when dealing with the heaviness of the subject matter, Mariah Carey didn’t forget than in real life, she’s used to looking like an absolute diva.

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“These dates have been postponed and not canceled,” Mariah’s publicist said Friday.

“Record release dates change all the time,” Berger confirms. “It’s nothing unusual and it doesn’t signal anything. There are a lot of moving parts to Mariah’s professional life … She’s making sure the record is how she wants it to be and its no big deal.”

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Nick Cannon is furious with the rapper for recording the track ‘The Warning’, in which he crudely talks about his brief relationship with Mariah in 2001, and has posted several bible verses on his Twitter page attacking Eminem.

Nick’s response to Eminem included “Be patient in the moment of anger and escape a hundred days of sorrow! “Never take your own revenge, but rather give place unto the wrath. For it is written vengeance is mine, I will repay… PREACH! ‘I will bless those that bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.’ Genesis 12:3.”
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“People who project negativity ultimately are crying out for their own broken souls. Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!”
In ‘The Warning’ – recorded as a response to Mariah dressing up as Eminem in the video for her song ‘Obsessed’ – the hip-hop star talks graphically about his relationship with Mariah and threatens to leak intimate voice messages and pictures of them together.

Lyrics to Eminem’s ‘The Warning’ include: “B***h, shut the f**k up before I put all them phone calls out you made to my house.

“Better shut your lying mouth if you don’t want Nick finding out. You probably think since it’s been so long if I had something on you I woulda did it by now. “On the contrary, Mary Poppins, I’m mixing our studio session down and sending it to mastering to make it loud. Enough dirt on you to murder you. Mariah, it ever occur to you that I still have pictures?

“Call my bluff and I’ll release every f***ing thing I got including the voicemails right before you flipped your top.”

He goes on to describe intimate details about their sexual exploits, mentions her by name several times and brands her a “w***e” and “alcoholic”. Mariah has previously insisted she is not mocking Eminem in her ‘Obsessed’ promo, saying: “Everybody started having their own speculations about who the stalker in the video was. When I look at that stalker and me with the beard, I look like my brother and my cousin Chris. So basically, you know, all the speculation about who I’m playing in the video, it’s not accurate.”

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The song comes after Mariah appeared to dress up as Eminem in the music promo for ‘Obsessed’, in which she said he was “delusional” for hinting they had slept together in his track ‘Bagpipes from Baghdad’. He raps in ‘The Warning’: “Only reason I dissed you in the first place is because you denied seeing me. Now I’m p***ed off. I’m obsessed now. Oh gee, is that supposed to be me in the video with the goatee? “B***h, shut the f**k up before I put all them phone calls out you made to my house. How many times you fly to my house? Still trying to count. Better shut your lying mouth if you don’t want Nick finding out.

You probably think since it’s been so long if I had something on you I woulda did it by now. On the contrary, Mary Poppins, I’m mixing our studio session down and sending it to mastering to make it loud. Enough dirt on you to murder you. Mariah, it ever occur to you that I still have pictures? “Call my bluff and I’ll release every f***ing thing I got including the voicemails right before you flipped your top. “It cuts like a (knife) when I tell ya get a (life). But I’m movin’ on with mine. Nick, is that your wife. Well tell her to shut her mouth then I’ll leave her alone. If she don’t then I’m just gonna keep goin.” He goes on to describe intimate details about their sexual exploits, mentions her by name several times and brands her a “w***e” and “alcoholic”.

Following Eminem’s original comments in ‘Bagpipes from Baghdad’, Nick jumped to his wife’s defence, claiming “homeboy is still obsessed with my wife”. He added: “I realised that this so-called man has just disrespected… one of the world’s most significantly influential artists, one of the most notable black females of our time, the incredibly cherished, globally loved and world-embraced woman of colour, Mariah Carey.

” Mariah herself spoke out about ‘Obsessed’, insisting she wasn’t attacking Eminem in the video. She said: “Everybody started having their own speculations about who the stalker in the video was. When I look at that stalker and me with the beard, I look like my brother and my cousin Chris. So basically, you know, all the speculation about who I’m playing in the video, it’s not accurate.” Source

Sources say that Chris tried to sit next to Mariah but she quickly told him that she would rather he sit at a different table.

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And that goes double when you’re trying to hide a tattoo.

Stars go to all kinds of lengths to hide their body ink, but there’s not much you can do when you’re sporting a teeny weeny bikini.

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It doesn’t mean that she hasn’t been trying. Since she married much younger actor Nick Cannon last spring, the speculation is that Mariah would soon be pregnant.

Last week, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres kept prodding her about it in an interview. She even tried to get her to drink Champagne. When Mariah only sipped it, Ellen declared, “You’re pregnant!” Which was the spark to this rumor:

Friends of Mariah said the rumor of Mariah’s pregnancy is “laughable.”

As she emerged from the water, Mariah was quickly met by two assistants bearing towels, who then proceeded to ensure she was completely dry by rubbing her all over.|

A source said: “Mariah looked in absolute heaven as she was dried off. She just held out her arms to her side and let the assistants get rid of any water remaining on her body.”

Mariah, 38, has previously revealed she likes being called a diva because it means she is successful.
She said: “They throw that word around like it’s a Frisbee! I grew up hearing it, because my mother is an opera singer. The actual definition is ‘a talented female singer’. Definition two is ‘a difficult woman who is successful,’ I believe. So I take it as a compliment.”

Despite her reputation, Mariah insists she doesn’t make enough demands.
The 38-year-old star said: “You know what? I guess I am a diva in many ways! When it comes to certain things, yes, I can be difficult and a little bit rigid about what I want. Am I demanding? I don’t think I’m demanding enough.”

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