Heartbreaker: Mariah hospitalized
Mariah Carey checked herself into a London hospital late Wednesday night, suffering from a case of "extreme exhaustion". According to a statement from the pop diva's camp, Carey, 31, succumbed to a whirlwind schedule that included shooting two movies - Glitter and Wise Girls - and recording and promoting the upcoming Glitter soundtrack album, the first under her new megabucks deal with Virgin.
The name of the hospital was not disclosed, and no further information was released about Carey's condition. The news comes just hours after two freaky messages, attributed to the octave-shattering songbird, appeared on her official Website, www.MariahCarey.com.
The rambling postings, supposedly phone messages to one of her Webmasters, identified only as "Randolph", went up early this morning and read like a cri de coeur. "So basically, all I really wanna say is I don't know what's going on with life, and I hope all the fans are good, and I just want you to know that I'm trying to understand things in life right now, and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music right now," the first message begins, according to transcripts published by Fox News.
"Glitter is going to be out soon. And you're gonna have that, and I'm gonna be taking some time off... What I'd like to do is take a little break, or at least get one night of sleep," she continues.
In the second message, Carey is quoted as saying, "Hey, everybody, it's Mariah. I'm just trying to let you know that I'm leaving this message because everything's okay. And what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take, like, a minute off... Right now I need a break, so I will, as a human being, take that break." The messages have since been removed from the Website.
Word of her hospitalization comes just days after her kooky appearance on MTV's Total Request Live, in which she came out half-naked, pushing an ice-cream cart and reading a love letter from her mom to host Carson Daly. When Daly tried to go to a commercial, Carey wouldn't keep quiet.
To be fair, the singer is is under intense pressure to live up to the hype of her huge new contract. Carey, who has tallied more than $140 million in record sales worldwide, signed a multi-album, multimillion-dollar deal with Virgin Records in April that was valued between $17 million and $20 million, one of the most lucrative in music history.
But her latest single, "Loverboy", the first cut off the Glitter soundtrack, has failed to take the top slot on the charts after seven weeks of release. It remains stuck at number two on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart, behind Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious".
The Glitter album is due out August 28. The 20th Century Fox film, which focuses on the meteoric rise of a pop singer, hits theaters Labor Day weekend. Carey is also scheduled to perform at MTV's 20th anniversary party on Wednesday. (E! Online News)
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