Mariah Carey should learn how to pace herself.
The pop diva checked herself into the hospital Wednesday for “extreme exhaustion,” her spokeswoman said in a statement. Carey fell ill after making two movies, Glitter and Wise Girls, as well as writing, recording and producing her latest album, the soundtrack to Glitter.
Carey’s spokeswoman had no further details about the singer’s condition or at which hospital she was admitted to, Reuters reports.
This isn’t the first time Carey has fallen ill during a busy time in her life. In April 2000, she was admitted to the hospital in Boston for dehydration and food poisoning when she was in the city on a concert tour. Apparently she got sick after eating a batch of bad raw oysters.
Carey did manage to post a message on her official Web site before checking herself into the hospital.
“What I’d like to do is just a take a little break or at least get one night of sleep without someone popping up about a video,” Carey said. “All I really want is to just be me and that’s what I should have done in the first place. I don’t say this much but guess what, I don’t take care of myself.”
The message was eventually taken down off the site. Carey’s New York spokeswoman Cindi Berger told BBC News that “she was obviously very tired and not thinking clearly.”
Carey has had to also cancel all her public appearances, including her performance at the MTV 20th anniversary celebration at the beginning of August.
Carey’s film Glitter, about a struggling young singer’s rise to fame, is due to be released Aug. 31. She plans to release the soundtrack on Aug. 21. Wise Girls, a film which Carey costars with Mira Sorvino, is about a waitress (Sorvino) who witnesses a mob-style murder and gets involved in the business. The film recently wrapped in Canada.
In April, Carey signed with Virgin Records after departing Columbia Records, a label she had been with since the start of her career. In a deal that will give her $20 million per album, Glitter will be the first album released under the new label.
