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"Mariah Carey could not be happier to put American Idol behind her. The &amp;quot;Art of Letting Go&amp;quot; singer -- who served one season as a judge on the Fox musical competition, alongside Nicki Minaj, Randy Jackson, and Keith Urban -- had some choice words about the show during an interview with Hot 97&amp;apos;s Angie Martinez on Tuesday, Nov. 12.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Honestly, I hated it,&amp;quot; she confessed. &amp;quot;Here&amp;apos;s what it was. I was the first person who signed on...I thought it was going to be a three-person panel. They gave me a nice...monetary moment, and I was just like, &amp;apos;Okay, Randy Jackson will be there; I&amp;apos;ve known him forever. He used to play bass for me. Like, this isn&amp;apos;t a big deal. This will be nothing.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;But it wasn&amp;apos;t that,&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;It was like going to work every day in hell with Satan.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nCarey didn&amp;apos;t specify which of her fellow judges might be the devil, but it&amp;apos;s no secret that she clashed with Minaj throughout the season. The two got into several very heated debates during the audition process and occasionally took their feud online. In May, the &amp;quot;Roman Holiday&amp;quot; rapper bashed the Grammy-winning singer as &amp;quot;insecure&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;bitter&amp;quot; on Twitter.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nThere was one bright spot in Carey&amp;apos;s Idol experience, though. &amp;quot;You know what I loved? I loved the contestants,&amp;quot; she told Martinez. &amp;quot;And some of them that were so good -- and also really good people, you could tell -- it was disappointing when [the judges] would, for political reasons, not put people through.&amp;quot;\r\nThe mom of two added that she&amp;apos;s happy to be back where she belongs -- in the studio. Neither she nor Minaj will return to American Idol for season 13."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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