Mariah Carey Says Dick Clark Would've Been 'Mortified' By Her New Year's Eve Performance
CelebritiesDirt BagDick Clark is no longer with us to offer his opinion on Mariah Carey’s now-infamous New Year’s Eve performance, but if he was, Carey is certain of one thing: “He would have been mortified.”
During the live telecast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, Carey experienced some technical difficulties that resulted in her walking around the stage in barely concealed frustration, unable to perform “Emotions” or anything else, really, all because of what the Carey camp says was a malfunctioning earpiece.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Carey praised Clark before saying “I’m of the opinion that Dick Clark would not have let an artist go through that and he would have been as mortified as I was in real time.” In the days following the performance, which was quite the spectacle for all the wrong reasons, an awful lot of people have offered their unwanted opinions on what actually happened. One of those people is Jenny McCarthy, who noted that while she had sympathy at first for what Carey was going through, it stopped cold when she heard that Carey had accused Dick Clark Productions of sabotage.