Mariah Carey is one of the best-selling artists of all time, with over 200 million albums sold to date, 19 Billboard Hot 100 singles, and 16 studio albums (her latest, Here For It All, is set to be released on September 26, 2025). Carey invited Gayle King of CBS Mornings into her recording studio home in sunny California for an exclusive chat about love, loss, and the elusive chanteuse also played the lucky storytellers some new music from her upcoming album, Here For It All.

It’s been 7 years since Carey’s last album release. On ‘Here For It All,” Mariah said that she’s giving fans the classic R&B we love Mariah for, but there’s some added depth. “It’s new Mariah that still sounds like Mariah, but there’s a twist to it,” she told Gayle King.

This new Mariah is the result of a collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer and artist Anderson .Paak, who is featured on her upcoming single. Carey told King she reached out to Paak because he’s “brilliant” and she respects his artistry. But is there something more than music going on between the two talented singers? Carey jokingly shared that Paak likes to hold her hand. She said, “I don’t know what he’s doing. He’s a hand-holding club. That’s what that is.” 

But that’s not all it is! The queen of Christmas invited .Paak to celebrate her holiday, and she said it was special. “There was a hot tub there,” Carey joked.

Mariah appears to be in a good place. She’s happy, healthy, and healing. Last year, she shared that she lost her mother and estranged sister on the same day. She said, “I don’t know how I processed it. I just know it was extremely difficult for me to navigate. I’ve always had an interesting relationship with my mother.”

Carey said her mother was her first musical inspiration. Patricia Carey was an opera singer who shared Mariah’s love of high notes. And while their relationship carried a lot of layers of pain, jealousy, pride, admiration, and disappointment, as she detailed in her NY Times Bestselling memoir, ‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey,’ towards the end of her mother’s life, they were able to find healing. Mariah didn’t leave her mother’s side while she was on her deathbed. 

But her sister? Unfortunately, Carey hadn’t seen her sister in years before her death. She told CBS Mornings that her sister had an extremely hard life. “I feel really badly about that as well, but that’s because I tend to have a guilt complex about everything,” Carey admitted.

In a candid chat, Mariah owns her diva title, declines to discuss the father of her 14-year-old twins, Nick Cannon, and shares why she believes that nothing is impossible.

Here For It All will be released on September 26th.