LONDON:

Pop star Mariah Carey would still be married to her ex-husband Tommy Mottola if he had agreed to a trial separation.

Carey said the marriage was too confining and she needed a break, reports contactmusic.com. Mottola was a music executive and he would not allow her to even go to the spa with her friends.

She said, “I understand him not wanting me to go out and hang out all night, but going to a spa with friends every now and then, or doing things on my own would have made a world of difference. I’d probably still be with him if I had. Maybe it’s for my own good I wasn’t allowed to do those things, but that’s not how it felt. I felt like suddenly I had a strict father. I didn’t think I was going to leave forever. Had it been, ‘Go be yourself, you’ve been with me since you were a kid, let’s separate for a while,’ I probably would have.”