Mariah Carey might have flown a vet out from LA to New York to help her dog deliver its puppies and demanded ten million doves and kittens for a London appearance, but just don't call her a diva...

Westfield shopping centre's health and safety officers needn't have worried about the welfare of those doves and kittens that Mariah Carey wanted to ship in for her Christmas lights appearance - the singer has revealed that she's quite happy to keep a vet as part of her entourage, claiming in a recent interview:

“My puppy just had a puppy. She’s the most adorable Jack Russell terrier. We were worried because she was little, so she had to have a C-section and I missed the whole thing!

 

“I flew this vet, a lovely lady, all the way from L.A. to N.Y. and back and forth and the dog didn’t have the puppies. I wanted to see the birth so, of course, when we got here [London] she had her babies.”

Despite what you might be thinking, she went to explain that she isn't a diva.

“At its heart, I think it’s lazy journalism. You know, my mother — who was an opera singer — used to use the term as a compliment; it meant a very talented singer. But I looked it up in the dictionary recently and now it also means a difficult and demanding woman.

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“I guess people like to put you in a little box, and that box fits me because I have the big hair, and I wear the tight dresses on stage. But that doesn’t mean I’m difficult or nasty.

 

“I remember a story in the British press, saying I’d demanded rose petals be scattered on the carpet of a London hotel when I arrived. The truth is, we’d just landed, it was 3am and all I wanted to do was go straight to my room.

 

“The back entrance would have been fine, never mind rose petals! I’d never ask for anything like that. But that sort of stuff is written about me, so I’ve just learnt to shake it off.”

Obviously she doesn't have to worry about lazy journalism here. Now, from what source did the above quotes come from? Never mind, it's a Saturday...