Jenny McCarthy Calls Out Mariah Carey Over New Year’s Eve Sabotage Allegation
On Saturday night, as 2016 was about to become 2017, Mariah Carey gave the world a welcome distraction from 2016 being awful. On ABC’s New Year’s Eve special production by Dick Clark Productions, she was supposed to sing “Emotions,” only to give up live on TV, citing issues with her earpiece and an incomplete backing track. She even went on to imply that the performance was sabotaged, which Dick Clark Productions refuted. The latest chapter in the saga came Tuesday, when Jenny McCarthy, one of the hosts of the show, tore into Carey on her radio show on Sirius XM.
“I think Mariah was nervous as hell,” McCarthy said. “I think she chose really tough songs to try to sing along with. I think Emotions, that song, I mean her voice is not there anymore. I don’t think there is a problem with her inner ears. I just don’t. I think she used it as an excuse. The monitors on the stage are there on the way to blast out the songs to the musician in case that happens. … On the stage, I don’t think she expected to be as far away from the prompter and as small as it was, she could have possibly not been able to see the words to her own song.”
McCarthy made sure to point out that at least at first, she felt for Carey, who was clearly mortified. “I know what it’s like to have your prompter go out,” she explained. “I know what it’s like to have my inner ears go out. It’s scary, and it’s like your brain malfunctions and you’re on live TV. So I was like, you know what, I have sympathy for her.” That changed after Carey started accusing the DCP team of sabotage. “My sympathy stopped, however, the moment she accused Dick Clark Productions of sabotaging her performance.”
After McCarthy pointed out that the real blame was on Carey’s shoulders for not doing a sound check, which she admitted during the failed performance, Wahlberg, who performed on past New Year’s Eve specials, chimed in to back her up. “The bucks stops with the artist,” he said. “If you’re gonna be a boss or you’re gonna be a diva, then you know, again it’s your name, your face and your legacy on the line. So you leave something to someone else, you have no one to blame but yourself. The music track, missing a vocal, that’s on her. No rehearsal, that’s on her.”
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