Mariah Needs Two Men to Lower Her On To a Sofa, But She's No Diva

Mariah Carey doesn't believe she's a diva. She's probably one of the select few who beleives that. Her paid minions will never tell her. Just last week she wanted hundreds of white doves and kittens (yes, kittens!) at a Christmas tree lighting, but that was only a small sampling of her demands while in London. What's the sign of a real diva? You hire people to lower you on to a sofa. Now, that's rich!

Mariah taped an with interview with Lorraine Kelly for the GMTV morning show in London [think: Good Morning America] last week. Afterwards the show's host, Kate Garraway, gave an interview dishing on Mariah's diva-ish ways.

"I’ve heard a lot of rumors about her being a diva over the years and guess what? It turns out it’s all true!" Kate tells New Magazine. "While Mariah was very nice, the amount of people she had in her entourage was hilarious. They outnumbered the entire GMTV crew! She had two people to lower her on to the GMTV sofa, in case her dress got crushed, one person to walk in front of her backwards at all times in case she fell over and several people behind the camera making sure she was going to be filmed from the right angle! Have you ever heard anything like it? Oh, and she brought her own toilet roll [toilet paper] as well."

Mariah's people say Kate's recollection of the facts is a "gross exaggeration." The spokesperson adds, "With regards to the 'entourage,' every star of Mariah’s calibre is surrounded by a working team and Mariah doesn’t actually have any more people working with her than any other major star."

Plus, Mariah's said she's not a diva.
"I am baffled, shocked and appalled when I am called a diva. I’ve never done one diva-ish thing in my life. The actual definition of a diva is a woman who sings well. The secondary definition is a woman who is difficult to deal with. I hope I am the first, but I really don’t think I am the second. I don’t believe I am truly nasty and act in a bad way."

Who are you going to believe?

BTW: Here's the GMTV interview.



More Mariah News: She will will be awarded the Breakthrough Performance Award at the 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival in California next January for her role in "Precious."

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