Singer’s star is vandalized
After New Year’s Eve fiasco, someone drew on Mariah Carey’s Walk of Fame spot.
Los Angeles police on Tuesday were trying to find the person who vandalized Mariah Carey’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The vandalism was reported to police Monday after a photograph of the damaged star appeared on Instagram, said Ana Martinez, spokeswoman for the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Someone had scribbled a blue question mark after the singer’s name.
Crews removed the question mark and polished Carey’s star. The repairs cost $1,500, Martinez said.
Carey made headlines last week after her botched New Year’s Eve performance in Times Square.
The televised breakdown happened during the superstar’s performance of her hit “Emotions” on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest” on ABC.
During the performance, Carey walked around the stage, sang bits of the song and said they hadn’t rehearsed it in sound check.
After the performance, Carey and her spokeswoman blamed the problems on technical difficulties.
On Sunday, Carey posted a recorded message on Twitter, saying the production team “chose to capitalize on circumstances beyond our control.”
“It’s not practical for a singer to sing live and be able to hear themselves properly in the middle of Times Square with all the noise, the freezing cold, the smoke from the smoke machines, thousands of people celebrating, especially when their ear monitors were not working at all,” she said. “Listen guys, they spoiled me. Thus, it turned into an opportunity to humiliate me and all those who were excited to ring in the new year with me.”
But a Dick Clark Productions spokesperson told The Times that Carey had declined a sound check and should have been able to hear the prerecorded music.
Carey said she was taking a break from social media to prepare for her tour but would continue to meet her personal obligations.