Mariah Carey admits there's exactly ONE thing she's not amazing at

Mariah Carey admits there's exactly ONE thing she's not amazing at

And we still don’t believe her.
September 29, 2020 10:19 a.m.
Latest Update September 29, 2020 7:05 p.m.
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It’s hard to believe Mariah Carey had any other career before becoming a singer-songwriter-actress triple threat, considering that her first album “Someday” was released when she was just 20. According to her, before she landed a record deal, she tried her hand at a backup career just in case her singing dreams didn’t land, and despite her reputation as a diva and perfectionist who needs to get everything *just so* she was an utter failure at this plan B profession. We don’t believe she could fail at any job with such drive and ambition, but please Mariah, tell us.“I knew I would be a horrible waitress, which I was,” she told The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with a giggle.
“First of all, I hated it, so that contributed to it,” she continued. “But one of the things is—and this is sad because I also failed remedial math even though my father was an aeronautical engineer, I didn’t get any of that—I couldn’t work the cash register properly! And the girls who really cared about the job and were there waitressing—and were all older than me, because I was a kid doing this, since I started in the industry so young—they were like, ‘Oh my gosh this girl is messing up our orders! She’s messing everything up!’”“And plus one other thing, no one could remember my name! I didn’t want to have to always explain, ‘Oh Mariah, and this is how you pronounce it.’ Because back then nobody had that name. So oftentimes I would make up a name, and say Debbie, something more common. And then I would forget the name I told that table!” she laughed.“So they’d be like, ‘Debbie!’ and I was sitting there, listening to my demo, not even aware that someone’s calling me. ‘Oh yeah, I told them my name was Debbie, that’s right.’”This is your reminder to always tip your servers handsomely.

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