Mariah is blaming it on the alcohol.
At Wednesday's People's Choice Awards, the diva, 40, was asked about her sloshy speech Tuesday at the Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala.
"I don't even know what it was," she told reporters. "I heard clapping. You know, Lee [Michaels, Precious director] and I hadn't seen each other in a long time, and he started right in with all these inside jokes, and I was like, OK.
"We were celebrating and having little splashes, and I hadn’t eaten, and that's what it was. We were celebrating the movie and all the exciting stuff going on. There's a time for celebration and a time for not – but really technically, it's a party atmosphere. We had splashes of champagne. I love Lee, but he’s a bad influence."
Carey was the butt of jokes by Sean Penn and Jason Reitman, director of Up In the Air. "I think it feels just as good as Mariah Carey feels right now," Reitman joked onstage while accepting an award at the show. "I should really leave now. I don't think it gets better than that."
