The singer told Harper's Bazaar that the former Sony Music CEO tried to keep her in a mainstream pop lane despite her efforts to swerve.

Mariah Carey is looking back at her first marriage to Tommy Mottola. The “Vision of Love” singer, 56, was married to music executive Mottola, 77, from 1993 to 1998, after he signed her to her first recording contract with Columbia Records years earlier.

Mariah Carey is spilling her tea and once again, Tommy Mottola is to blame for nearly stifling her career in its infancy. In conversation with Harper’s Bazaar UK, Carey spoke on her relationship (and later marriage) to the former president of Columbia Records.