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Sep 10, 2014 15:35 GMT  ·  By
Mariah Carey is close to a breakdown after split from Nick Cannon, claim friends
   Mariah Carey is close to a breakdown after split from Nick Cannon, claim friends

All is not well in the life of diva Mariah Carey. Her relationship with husband Nick Cannon has gone beyond the point of no-return, and now she's determined to severe her ties with him, despite the fact that they've been married for 6 years and have two children together. She is said to have been very depressed lately and her friends are afraid she's going to have a breakdown.

The report comes from OK! Magazine who has heard from insiders that Mariah's current state of mental health is a mess. She seems to have been so affected by this separation that her friends are worried the 45-year-old singer is going to snap any day now.

Mariah spends all night drinking, worrying about her marriage

The words “intervention” and “professional help” popped up in the discussion, suggesting that Mariah really does have a drinking problem, as it was hinted in previous reports about the singer. We would find out that Mariah regularly drinks herself into a stupor, downing bottle after bottle of champagne, until the early hours of the morning.

This is one of the reasons that Nick Cannon is said to be divorcing her and one of the main reasons he is refusing to say bad things about her. “Nick wanted Mariah to go to rehab” a friend told the publication, since Mariah has paired her all-night drinking with anti-depressant pills of late.

Nick tried to get her to rehab, but she won't admit she has a problem

The source explains that Mariah has really taken to Nick these past years and that a breakup from him is hitting her very hard. “She’s going to have a total breakdown if someone doesn’t intervene soon. She really needs help before she ends up in the hospital.”

Among drinking champagne all night and basically seething about Nick Cannon, she also spends hours looking at every photo frame in her house, dissecting it “to death.” While this can't be a healthy occupation, Carey is said to be keeping this up for months now, which is why her friends are worried she's slipping.

Mariah has a history with bad breakups and depressions

Mariah Carey has a history of bad breakups, hinting that she's not that good at letting go. Back in 2001, Mariah landed herself in the hospital with self-inflicted wounds, after she reportedly suffered a mental breakdown. Keep in mind that this was 4 years after her divorce from Tommy Mottola.

Now, friends are making parallels to the state she was in at the time and the state she's in now. They say that they are afraid to leave her alone because she is going to do something to herself that will land her in the hospital.

For the record, Carey never admitted she suffered a breakdown. Later, in an interview with Good Morning America, she said that “I was totally exhausted and I needed to go to sleep and I needed rest and I needed people to leave me alone… It wasn’t like I went schizo and needed to be put in a straitjacket or tried to kill myself, what they were saying.”