Fans shower grieving Mariah Carey with support hours after she revealed her opera singer mom and older sister died on the same day

Tributes have poured in for grieving megastar Mariah Carey after both her mom and older sister died within hours of each other over the weekend. 

The Hero singer, 55, revealed on Monday that sister Alison, 63, and mom Patricia, 87, passed away within hours of each other over the weekend, saying in a statement: 

'My heart is broken that I've lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.

'I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed. I appreciate everyone's love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.'

Since then, her innumerable fans have showered her with well-wishes and condolences. 

One fan said on X, referring to the collective name her admirers use for themselves, said: 'May peace be brought to you today and moving forward, Mimi. You are loved, and the Lambily are always here!' 

The Hero singer, 55, revealed on Monday that sister Alison, 63, and mom Patricia, 87, passed away within hours of each other over the weekend (Patricia and Mariah pictured in 2010 at an LA venue)

Mariah and Alison (pictured at Mariah's 1993 wedding to the record producer Tommy Mottola) were not close by the end of Alison's life 

Carey's fans call themselves the Lambily, a portmanteau of 'lamb' and 'family'. 

Carey has consistently called her fans 'Lambs'. 

Another Lamb said on X 'hugs from the lambs and you’ll be in my prayers', while a third said: 'We love you, Queen Mariah Carey!!! The singer’s singers… May your mother and your sister rest in peace.

They then added a quote from her 2008 song Bye Bye: 'It's hard to accept the fact that you're gone forever.'

@lipsdontliepop said on X: 'Deepest condolences to Mariah Carey on this unimaginable loss. May she find strength in her memories and peace in their love.'

The social media user added a quote from Carey's song Hero: 'So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong.'

Alison was 63 when she died while Patricia was 87. Their respective causes of death were not immediately clear. 

Alison and Mariah, pictured in an undated photo, were estranged for years

Mariah said she felt 'blessed' she was able to 'spend the last week' with her mother prior to her passing.

She added, 'I appreciate everyone's love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.'

Alison was the older sister to Mariah, and the middle child of the late Patricia and opera singer Alfred Carey (who died at 72 in 2002). The former couple, also parents to son Morgan Carey, 64, had been wed from 1960-1973, splitting when Mariah was three-years-old.

Mariah said in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey that after extensive therapy, she decided to cease contact with both Alison and Morgan.

'For my sanity and peace of mind, my therapist encouraged me to literally rename and reframe my family ... Morgan my ex-brother and Alison my ex-sister ... I had to stop expecting them to one day miraculously become the ... big brother and big sister I fantasized about,' she wrote.

Mariah added: 'I had to stop making myself available to be hurt by them. It has been helpful. I have no doubt it is emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact with my ex-brother and ex-sister.'

Carey with daughter Monroe and her mother Patricia 

Alison was arrested in Saugerties, New York, for alleged prostitution in 2016 

In the book, Mariah claimed that Alison tried to get her to use drugs and had 'inflicted [her] with third-degree burns' when she was a pre-teen, impacting her lifelong development.

'When I was 12 years old, my sister drugged me with Valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine ... and tried to sell me out to a pimp,' Mariah said. 'Something in me was arrested by all that trauma. That is why I often say, "I'm eternally 12." I am still struggling through that time.'

In a September 2020 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mariah described Alison as 'troubled and traumatized' amid their upbringing.

The Someday singer recalled: 'We don't even really know each other, and that's the thing. We didn't grow up together, but we did. Like, they were on their journeys, by the time I got into the world, they had already been damaged, in my opinion.

'But again, I wasn't there. I was dropped into this world and I literally felt like an outsider amongst my own family.'

According to a 2015 New York Post report, Alison was mother to four children, pregnant for the first time at the age of 15, and having another child in 1988. She had two more children by 2002, the paper reported.