15. In 2001, after a strange appearance in TRL, she was not announced, accompanied by pushing an ice cream cart and stripping off her clothes, and she recovered for two weeks in a Connecticut mental hospital, citing the extreme fatigue of her breakdown.
She later revealed in 2018 that she had been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder at the time, but kept the diagnosis private. “I’m in a really good place right now, and I feel comfortable talking about my struggle with bipolar II disorder,” she told people at the time. “We hope that stigma will reach a place where it can be lifted up from people experiencing something on their own, and that can be incredibly isolated.
16. Just a few months after she stayed at the facility, Carrie released Glitter to the world. The film and its soundtrack were so bombshells that it encouraged Virgin Records to buy her from her record deal for $50 million. She signed a contract with Island Records in early 2002, and in the process launched the record label Monarc.
17. It’s not the only film that Carey has appeared over the years. She has won pretty impressive reviews for her work as a social worker in the 2009 award-winning film Precious of her friend Lee Daniels. In 2013, she appeared in another Daniels film, The Butler, performing Hattie Pearl, the mother of Cecil Gaines (played by Forest Whitaker), the film’s prestigious butler.
