Derek Jeter’s Ex-Girlfriend Mariah Carey Revealed How He Fulfilled One of Her Biggest Fantasies by Simply Being Himself

Over time, and in multiple instances, peculiar relationships between Hollywood and MLB have been witnessed. These fairytale-like relationships make fans believe in love, but generally, end up with the two stars moving in separate directions. Such MLB-Hollywood love stories include Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, Derek Jeter and Mariah Carey, and Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez.

Just like that, in her memoir ‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey,’ the five-time Grammy Award winner, Mariah Carey talks about how Derek Jeter helped her live her fascination for Marilyn Monroe.

How did Mariah Carey relate Derek Jeter to Marilyn Monroe?

While one Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter dated megastar Mariah Carey, another ex-Yankee superstar, Joe DiMaggio, was once married to sensation  Marilyn Monroe. Balanced against this uncanny parallel, Carey, through her memoir, talked about her Marilyn Monroe fantasy. This fantasy involved dating a Yankee superstar.

She said, “Through all the darkness, I discovered I still had some whimsy reserved for me and my own heart. I even began watching baseball in the studio when he was playing. To add to the perfect fantasy of it all, Derek played the same position the great Joe DiMaggio played on the Yankees, connecting him to my Marilyn fascination.”

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Finally, she mentions her time with Derek Jeter and talks about living her fantasy. She says, “I literally met the person I had imagined. I was living in my own love song.

Which songs did Mariah Carey write for Captain Clutch?

Notably, Derek Jeter and Mariah Carey started dating in 1997. While the couple’s relationship lasted only for a year, it involved multiple wholesome and heartwarming moments. Any Yankee fan wouldn’t directly associate them with Captain Clutch. Nevertheless, Mariah Carey, the nineteen-time World Music Award winner, wrote two songs for five-time World Champion Derek Jeter.

She reveals that the songs “The Roof” and “My All” were about her time with Jeter. While “The Roof” was about their first kiss, “My All” was about the time when Mariah risked her life to meet her boyfriend Jeter in Puerto Rico.

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