“Tommy Held the Knife There” – Pop Icon Mariah Carey Once Spilled Her Last Scary Moment With Her Ex-Husband Before Leaving Him For Derek Jeter

New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter started spreading his charm all over the Big Apple as he entered his rookie season in 1996. The former shortstop helped his team win the World Series after eighteen years against the Atlanta Braves. He did so while still a rookie. Since then, he has become a fan-favorite baseball player who people love even though he retired eight years ago. One of the people that could not resist the charm spread over by the former Yankee was his teenage dream girl Mariah Carey. After meeting at a dinner party organized by Armani, the singer later started developing feelings for him. 

But the catch here was that she was still married to her ex-husband, Tommy Mottola. After being in an affair with Jeter, the singer decided that she needed to end her abusive marriage to go ahead with Jeter. While doing so, her ex-husband put on one last show at their 51-acre mansion, Sing Sing. 

Mottola left Mariah Carey searing with rage!

The iconic singer Mariah Carey has spoken multiple times over the years that her marriage with the producer Tommy Mottola was an abusive one. It wasn’t until Jeter came into her life that she understood she needed to get out of her marriage. But doing so was not easy for her. It was because Mottola put yet another ‘cowardly performance’ as Carey finally was going to leave him to move things forward with the former Yankee. 

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She wrote in her memoir that while sitting still, her ex-husband came up to her, and “picked up the butter knife from the place setting in front of me. He pressed the flat side of it against my right cheek. Every muscle in my face clenched. My entire body locked in place; my lungs stiffened. Tommy held the knife there.”

He then carefully pulled the thin, cold strip of metal down the singer’s scorching face. Meanwhile, her fury was fueled by the terrible humiliation of his scary, despicable behavior.

Derek Jeter became the catalyst in Carey’s life!

When the former couple first met each other at Armani’s party, the singer had previously admitted that she didn’t like the former shortstop. According to her, the Armani suit he wore did not cover up the Kalamazoo in him.

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But after getting to know him, she fell in love. And realized that she was in an abusive marriage. She has said multiple times that Jeter was the catalyst that helped her out. She also has a couple of songs named after her former love.