A friend of Mariah Carey s late sister has shared details about her life and her strained relationship with the artist following her passing.

On Monday, Mariah Carey confirmed to People magazine that her older sister, Alison Carey, and mother, Patricia Carey, had died on the same day over the weekend. The five-time Grammy winner did not offer any further details, including either of their causes of death.

In an interview with People published Wednesday, David Baker, Alison Careys friend, discussed their relationship, saying he spoke with her almost daily for about nine years after first meeting in 2015.

The two met while she was recovering from a brain injury shed sustained in a home invasion. Baker went to visit her at a hospital in upstate New York after Morgan Carey, who is Mariah and Alison Careys brother, asked for help with her in a Facebook group Baker was a part of.

I knew when I saw the request that I was the only person anywhere near Albany, New York, so I said, Well, Im going to go for this, he told People, adding, I saw somebody who needed help and I knew I could do it.

Baker, who previously confirmed on social media earlier this month that Alison Carey had entered hospice care, reflected on his friends life, saying she had a tough life but ultimately got her wish to die at her home in Coxsackie, New York.

We saw it coming, but its still a shock, he said. She got ill fairly quickly and a month later, shes gone.

Baker also touched on Alison Careys estrangement from Mariah Carey and said the two women hadnt seen each other in person since either 1994 or 2002.

Mariah Carey opened up about being estranged from Alison, Patricia and Morgan Carey in her 2020 memoir , The Meaning of Mariah Carey.