Funny enough, I had my own suspicions she was on adderall before--but AFTER the breakdown, not before it. Mariah acted really scatterbrained in that TRL appearance, and adderall is supposed to help people focus. It also can cause dry mouth, and we've seen Mariah using these before, and her live voice in the late 2000s sound pretty much exactly like someone trying to sing with dry mouth; it also suppresses appetite and helps some people lose weight; and while it does help people focus, it also can make them impulsive and jump right into big decisions. Adderall would pretty much explain the whole E=MC2 era to me
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FluffyP13 wrote:
In carson's defense, what would you do if a global superstar showed up to your little show unannounced as you're about to toss to break and started acting like that? he had nothing prepared. she was acting erratic and crazy and he had to say something.
Well, it wasn't completely unplanned-- Mariah was there to announce she was headlining MTV's 20th Anniversary concert (which of course she had to pull out of because of her hospital stay; I still wish we could've seen what she would have done). She just came out at the wrong time, and I think Carson's initial "What are you doing?" might have been genuine (TRL shoots were very tightly-controlled, someone breaking script would very much put a wrench into things) and I think he tried to play up the 'crazy' angle to make it appear more fun and less like 'Technical Difficulties'.
Also I think this event gets cited more than it really ought to mostly because it's the only real video evidence we have of Mariah's breakdown. I'm actually amazed at how well Mariah's team managed to keep that whole thing out of the public eye as much as they could; we never even got Patricia's 911 call, and those are public record! So if you want to talk about Mariah's breakdown and make it interesting, you pretty much have to show this thing and try to play up the crazy bits as much as you can.
FluffyP13 wrote:
i personally think MC had a cocaine problem in the early 2000s. i can certainly see her misusing it w the amount of nonstop work she was doing. i also remember my brother telling me he heard she was from her tour bus driver. obviously no way to know if it is true.
I have a hard time seeing this. Mariah's not above using some substances, but she definitely seeks more chilled-out stuff like weed or alcohol. Also, the media definitely would have picked up on any hard drug use, it's hard to cover that up if tabloids really, really wanted to know.