“I didn’t know if they had come to save us or kill us,” Carey writes.
The superstar hides and reveals in “The Meaning of Mariah Carey.” Photograph from The LIFE Picture Collection / GettyĮarly on in Mariah Carey’s affecting new memoir, “ The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” she tells a story about being three years old, shaking in terror after twelve police officers stormed into her cramped home in Long Island to “manage” an altercation between her father and her brother.