Mariah Carey is finally talking about that New Year’s Eve debacle

Mariah Carey discussed her viral for all the wrong reasons New Year’s Eve performance meltdown as part of a lengthy interview with Rolling Stone.

The “Dream Lover” singer backed the official statement that her camp released in which she accused Dick Clark Productions of ignoring requests to fix an in-ear monitor malfunction.

Carey explained how most regular folks just wouldn’t understand her struggle just like she can’t relate to most of their problems:

“I don’t even want to bring this up too much, but whatever, we’re obviously talking about it, the New Year’s Eve situation, that couldn’t be helped… It’s just something where if I can’t explain it to the entire world, then they’re not going to understand it, because it’s not what they do. Just like I wouldn’t understand somebody who had a desk job and how to do that. I couldn’t. I literally am incapable of being in the real world and surviving… I used to get upset by things. This was out of my control, and had everything not been such a total chaotic mess, then I would have been able to make something happen. Even the dancers should have stopped dancing and helped me off the f***ing stage. I’m sorry. It was a mess, and I blame everybody, and I blame myself for not leaving after rehearsal.”

Carey made a widely applauded return to TV last week with a performance of her new song “I Don’t” on Jimmy Kimmel Live.