Video: Mariah Carey stuns audience with slurred award ceremony speech
Mariah Carey lived up to her sometimes bizarre reputation by giving a rambling, slurred speech as she accepted an award.
The singer was at the Palm Springs International Film Festival to receive the Breakthrough Actress prize for her performance in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."
She tottered on to the stage in a skin-tight, black-beaded full-length Herve Leger gown and greeted her presenter and "Precious" director Lee Daniels with a little dance and a lengthy hug.
Carey hesitated for a few seconds, looked to the ceiling, sighed and said, "Please forgive me, because I'm a little bit, um ..."
An audience member finished the sentence for her with an obscenity, to which Carey replied, "Yeah!" adding a long, hearty laugh.
Later on in the midst of praising Daniels' work, Carey spontaneously burst into applause.
"Sorry," she told Daniels. "Sometimes I get a little ..." Carey then stopped cold to snap her fingers, then added "... you know, difficult." And then she giggled again.
To end her efforts, she told the audience: "I thank you all for all listening to my little spiel. God bless you."
