Mariah Carey NYE Fallout: Day 16

Carl Williott | January 16, 2017 11:51 am

We’re now more than two weeks removed from Mariah Carey‘s flubbed New Year’s Eve performance, and we are still talking about it. We hate ourselves.

Carey’s ex-husband, Nick Cannon, has finally offered up his take on the viral non-performance. Cannon stopped by Ellen today and explained that it’s just a natural part of performing live. (He also joked that the NYE fiasco was a government conspiracy.)

“Anyone who knows about performing [knows] things like that can go wrong on live television,” he said. “I do live television all the time; I screw up on America’s Got Talent all the time, so when there are people in your ear saying things and stuff, I think she got a little flustered. But being the diva she is, she said, ‘I’m just going to walk around and pose for seven minutes.’ And like Ryan Seacrest said, she can do no wrong. So she worked through it.”

In other words, shit happens. So now let’s move on to some other shit. But first watch the interview below so we can boost that time-on-page stat, and then, totally, move on to new shit.