Mariah Carey says Derek Jeter affair was 'a catalyst' for end of marriage to Tommy Mottola

Mariah Carey has revealed that meeting Derek Jeter in the 1990s served as 'a catalyst' for the end of her first marriage. Throwback: Mariah Carey has revealed that meeting Derek Jeter served as 'a catalyst' for the end of her first marriage to Tommy Mottola, whom she is pictured with in 1997 Candid: Now in a clip from an upcoming Oprah Conversations interview she dished about her relationship with Derek which inspired 'a few songs' in her repertoire 'He was a catalyst that helped me get out of that relationship, because I had believed that there was somebody else,' she shared. Sadie, Sadie: In a recent Vulture interview she admitted that the romance with Derek began during her first marriage; she and Derek are pictured at their New York wedding in 1993 The singing sensation also revealed that The Roof and My All, two songs from her 1997 album Butterfly, were about the baseball sex symbol. Side by side: Mariah evidently felt excessively penned in by Tommy, judging by the fact that in her memoir she refers to their marital home as 'Sing Sing' after the infamous prison The music legend was discovered in the late 1980s by her first ex-husband Tommy Mottola who was then head of Columbia Records.