Mariah Carey blames long hours and lack of sleep for video set fall
Mariah Carey has blamed long working hours and a severe lack of sleep for the fall which resulted in her dislocated shoulder on the set of a music video last month (Jul13).
The Hero hitmaker took a tumble while shooting the new promo, directed by her husband Nick Cannon, and had to be admitted to hospital to treat a cracked rib and have her right arm put in a sling.
The incident has left the singer struggling with nerve damage, but
she insists no one was to blame but herself.
She tells Entertainment Tonight, "It wasn't Nick's fault, it was my
fault. Honestly, I had been working for a really long time, and you
know how when you're posing... I was posing, and my arm... was
shaking at that point - so it was very fatigued. And about the
ninth take, the 10th take... I was on a roll darling, a roll... and
the next thing I knew, I was on the floor baby, on cement."
Carey has refused to let the injury derail her promotional duties
for her new film, Lee Daniels' The Butler, and she has continued to
appear at press conferences and walked the red carpet at Monday's
(05Aug13) New York premiere with a bejewelled sling.