Carey 'prepared' for breakdown reports
06/02/2006 - 11:02:31Pop star Mariah Carey sat down for seven-and-a-half hours straight and read every press clipping regarding her alleged nervous breakdown, so she knew exactly what was being written about her.
The Don't Forget About Us singer took a few days off in 2001 after a gruelling promotional schedule and the media subsequently reported that she'd suffered a nervous breakdown.
The star says she read the mountain of clippings because she "wanted to be prepared."
Carey says: "They all said I'd had a nervous breakdown, but people don't recover from a nervous breakdown three days later!
"Anytime you say "breakdown" people are going to think you went crazy. I was physically exhausted - I was physically depleted to the point of collapsing."
