She Had an Affair With Jeter
Carey writes that she wanted “to be like Peter Pan and fly the f–k away” from Mottola, so after she met Jeter, now 46, at a dinner in the mid-‘90s, she saw an opportunity. After finding out that the MLB star also had biracial parents, she fell head over heels. They exchanged numbers and began sneaking around New York City together. “Derek was only the second person I had slept with ever (coincidentally, his number was 2 on the Yankees),” she writes. Carey thought Jeter was her “soulmate” at the time because he was proof that she “could have something beautiful on the other side of the hell that was [her] marriage.” Their relationship ended up being brief, but the pop diva thanks the athlete in her book for being “the catalyst [she] needed to get out from under Tommy’s crippling control.”
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