The pop singer who behaves like a 12-year-old girl

Primadonnas can be notoriously difficult. But the inexplicably-popular Mariah Carey is in a league of her own.

Cannes has been swarming with primadonnas, as it does during the film festival. The preposterous Mariah Carey, however, was in a league of her own.

She has a very good voice, it is true, but she spares no expense in pampering it. When she arrived at the Hotel Martinez she refused to speak at check-in, according to Alison Boshoff in the Daily Mail. Instead, 'her people' let it be known that her suite had to be at a specific temperature far warmer than the rest of the hotel because she thinks heat is good for her vocal cords. She also insists on having her bed surrounded with humidifiers to improve the quality of the air she breathes.

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