Mariah Carey said her sister and mother passed away on the same day.

The diva Mariah Carey revealed this past weekend’s deaths of her mother and sister in a statement to CBS News on Monday.

The 55-year-old singer stated that her mother Patricia Carey and sister Alison Carey passed away on the same day, but she withheld any details on the circumstances surrounding their passing. We do not yet know the cause of their passing. Carey did not say precisely when her sister and mother passed away.

“My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend,” Carey stated. “Unfortunately, my sister passed away on the same day due to a terrible turn of events. I consider myself fortunate to have had the final week with my mother before her death.

Carey’s mother was also a singer. Patricia Carey was an opera singer and she recorded with her daughter before her death. Mariah Carey previously told CBS “Sunday Morning” that her mother was the first person to inspire her.

“Well, my mother tells a story,” Carey said. “She said that she was doing ‘Rigoletto,’ and she kept rehearsing one part over and over and over. And then, she messed up. And I said, ‘No, it goes like this,’ and sang it to her.”

Carey said that was when her mother decided, “‘OK, she definitely has a special ear. And let me encourage this.'”

Variety said, citing Carey’s memoir, that she and her sister Alison had a strained relationship. “Emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact” with Alison and her brother Morgan, the singer stated in the letter.

According to earlier reports from People, the Grammy-winning singer’s father, Alfred Roy Carey, passed away in 2002 from cancer.