Mariah Carey Reveals Being Spit On as Target of Racist Attack When She Was a Child

Mariah Carey recently opened up about being the target of racist bullying while she was growing up in a suburban neighborhood in Long Island, N.Y.

The biracial singer recalled the incident while speaking during a news conference promoting the film "Lee Daniel's The Bulter." In the movie, which is based on real-life events, Carey plays a slave.

The 43-year-old superstar explained that just like in the movie, she too was spit on because of the color of her skin.

In "The Butler: a white woman spits on a black college student who asked to be served at the whites-only counter during the 1960 Woolworth's Lunch Counter sit-in located in North Carolina," reports Yahoo! News.

At the film's press conference in New York City on Monday, Carey said that the scene hit close to home because she went through the same thing.

"That actually happened to me," Carey said. "I know people would be in shock and not really want to believe or accept that, but it did."

"That right there, that was almost the deepest thing to me in the movie because I know what she went through - and it happened to be on a bus, it was a school bus."

Last year the songstress appeared on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and shared another heartbreaking childhood memory, reports Fox News Latino.

"One of the first memories I have is when I was in kindergarten or nursery school and they asked us to draw a picture of our family; and so I was drawing everybody and I got to my father and I started to make him brown. And, they were like, the kindergarten teachers are often young, and the two women were standing behind me giggling. And I turned around, self-conscious, and asked, 'why are your laughing?' And they said, 'you're doing that wrong. Why are you making your father the wrong color?' And I said, 'No, that's the color that he is.' They made me feel like something was wrong with me, that it was a bizarre freakish thing," Carey said.