


Maybe LaBelle still has a few lessons to teach her goddaughter after all. In 2019, Carey posted a video to her Instagram of the two singing a duet of her 2018 single "With You." To LaBelle's shock, Carey dropped the F-bomb to which she asked, "Oh, you say F with you?" Carey excitedly responded, "She didn't know I said that!" With her video turned off, she is visually represented by a perfect azure blue and gold butterfly emoji and the legend Mimi above it (one of her many nicknames). "She's so phenomenal and so good, she doesn't need to be slapped anymore. After a 40-minute wait (10 minutes in diva time), Carey’s distinctive voice resounds over an audio Zoom link. "I had to slap her every now and then," LaBelle joked. Blige) for many years, and occasionally had to talk some sense into her. "So she just asked me and I said, 'Of course, you're my godchild.'"ĭuring an appearance on "Busy Tonight," LaBelle told host Busy Philipps that she has mentored Carey (and other women including Beyonce and Mary J. "I wanted to be - I love that voice, I mean, you don't find many voices like that," LaBelle said. LaBelle told Wendy Williams in 2010 that Carey asked her to be her godmother and she said yes. Unlike most godparents, LaBelle wasn't named Carey's godmother at birth. Mariah Carey presented Patti LaBelle with the Living Legend Award during "Black Girls Rock!" in 2013.
