Mariah Carey made rare comments about her years-long feud with Eminem.
While playing “Plead the Fifth” on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” on Wednesday night, Carey, 56, explained if it’s true that the pair’s drama began when Eminem, 52, asked her to play his mom in his 2002 autobiographical movie “8 Mile.”
“From what I heard, there is truth to that, but I don’t think that he actually… well, who knows who approached who,” Carey responded.
“Did that ignite the beef?” Cohen, 57, asked Carey.
“No. I mean, maybe,” Carey said. “It depends what he’s thinking. I really don’t care.”
“Whatever he’s said then I’m that, fine. Not really, but that’s a rap lyric,” the “One Sweet Day” singer added.
The Post has reached out to Eminem’s rep for comment.
In June, producer Damion “Damizza” Young claimed on the “TFU Podcast” that Eminem had Carey in mind to play the role of his alcoholic mom, who he lives with in a trailer home, in “8 Mile.”
But Carey — who is only four years older than Eminem — was allegedly insulted by the offer and turned down the role, which ultimately went to Kim Basinger.
“Her insecurities kicked in big time,” Young said, adding that the meeting was the catalyst for Carey and Eminem’s long-rumored romance.
“It was her chasing him, not him chasing her,” Young claimed. “Next thing I know, we are at Eminem’s house … and they disappear. The second they went into his room, literally, I was like, ‘I’m going back to LA. There is no point of me being here.’”
“It went from business to f–king,” Young added.
Eminem has claimed that he dated Carey, even referencing her on the tracks “Superman” and “When the Music Stops” from 2002’s “The Eminem Show.”
But Carey has denied every having a relationship with Slim Shady.
“I hung out with him, I spoke to him on the phone. I think I was probably with him a total of four times,” she told Larry King in 2002. “And I don’t consider that dating somebody.”
Seven years later, Carey sang about Eminem — and portrayed him in the music video — in “Obsessed.”
The feud died down for years, until Eminem called Carey a “nut job” in his verse on Fat Joe’s “Lord Above” in 2019.
