And I said, “Her in-ears do not work, it’s choppy, we need new ears for the performance.” He said, “Those are not the ears she’ll be working with for the performance. We then went to Mark Shimmel, the assigned talent executive to Mariah. She was struggling to hear him through the noise of Times Square. She did an interview with Ryan Seacrest at about 10:35 where her in-ear was very choppy. She was assured it would work by the evening. The most important thing to her was the sound. She sat on the side of the stage with her ear-pack and her in-ears and her microphone to make sure she could do the sound check. She had a dance stand-in for the musical number. We waited around for their stage manager. The stage wasn’t ready for her until 3:20.

Not only did she not ditch rehearsal, we got to Times Square at 2:30. There are anonymous production sources quoted as saying Carey skipped it? Producer Dick Clark Productions has slammed any insinuation that they’re to blame for the fiasco as “absurd” (see their statement here), but here’s Bulochnikov with her recollection of the events.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So first, let’s talk about the rehearsal. Over the past couple days, the singer has been accused of lip-syncing and even skipping the show’s rehearsal. Below Carey’s manager Stella Bulochnikov, who was by the singer’s side at the event, runs through what went down Saturday in detail to try and clear up the conflicting accounts about the ABC performance - which was marred by the singer’s audio issues. Mariah Carey’s team is fed up with feeling attacked and is ready to candidly elaborate on what exactly happened during the singer’s infamous performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

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