Mariah Carey Slams 'American Idol' in New Interview: "It Was the Worst Experience of My Life"

In a new interview on the Australian radio show Kyle and Jackie O, Carey slammed the show - which is closing out next year with its 15th season - saying that her stint as a judge was the "worst experience of her life."

Though Idol promised that it would bring back many former judges and contestants for its massive final season, Carey has no intentions of returning to the FOX reality competition. "Hell no! Absolutely not," she said when asked if she would be coming back.

Carey then got candid about the show, decrying the judges' critiques after the performances and calling the show "so boring and so fake." "I'm sorry. When I say it's fake, I mean, I have to make up things to say about everybody. Half the time, the performances are good, you'll just be like, 'It was good,'" she said.

Carey, of course, was a judge on the critically panned 12th season of Idol and was on the judging panel alongside Nicki Minaj, Randy Jackson and Keith Urban. Carey had a notable feud with Minaj on the set of the show, frequently eclipsing the contestants themselves.

"I'm not going to get into what it was, but let's just say I don't think they had any intentions for us to have a good experience doing that show. Pitting two females against each other wasn't cool," Carey said. It should have been about the contestants instead of about some "nonexistent feud that turned into even more ridiculousness. I would never want to be involved with it again. But everybody else did like it."

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Mariah Carey, American Idol