Mariah Carey tells about how Christmas made her childhood 'messed up?'

The singer Mariah Carey, who is well-known for her timeless Christmas songs, explained the real significance of the season for her.

Mariah Carey said in a W Magazine interview why she always puts so much emphasis on Christmas, especially for her kids.

"Darling, look, I know a lot of the time people are like, ‘Oh, yay! Look at her! She’s, like, so festive and such a Christmas girl,’ or whatever," began the singer, 52.

"But, really, Christmas makes me happy. People think I had this princess-style life or whatever, a kind of fairy-tale existence where I just emerged, like, ‘Here I am!’ And that is not what it is."

"When you grow up with a messed-up life and then you’re able to have this transformation where you can make your life what you want it to be? That is joy for me," the All I Want for Christmas Is You crooner told the outlet.

According to Page Six, Carey went into great detail about her horrific background in her 2020 biography, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. 

She detailed in the book how her "broken" older brother, Morgan Carey, was supposedly so "abusive" that she once phoned the police on him for allegedly attempting to harm their mother.

"That’s why I want my kids to have everything they can have. I want them to be able to understand that they can be anything they want to be," the singer told the outlet.

When questioned about what Christmas peeked in her house, Carey shared, "I create my own Christmas moment."

She continued, "I mean, Santa Claus visits us. He comes with his reindeer. I am not exaggerating—this is the truth. By the way, before my kids were born, I did all the same types of things. That’s just how it is with me and Santa and the reindeer."