Carson Daly Slammed For ‘Horrible’ Treatment Of Mariah Carey In Viral Resurfaced ‘TRL’ Clip: ‘He Should Have Been Canceled Long Ago’

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A Reddit thread featuring a short clip of the aforementioned interaction was captioned: "Can someone explain why Mariah Carey's ice cream cart appearance on TRL was considered a 'mental breakdown' in 2001?" And fellow Redditors were quick to provide answers in the comments!

"If I'm remembering correctly from her memoir, Carson essentially set her up because they had arranged the appearance together... But when she actually arrived, he pretended that she was crashing the set and it made her look unhinged for 'randomly' showing up with the ice cream. Lambs, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong," wrote one Mariah fan.

"Lol the funniest thing is how anyone could think her lugging a giant ice cream cart up a very tall building is something she could just do on a whim," replied one fan. "I mean… are YOU gonna stop 00's Mariah walking around with an ice cream cart on her way up to the TRL set?" asked another, as someone else replied: "I wouldn't stop todays Mariah from doing well anything. She is the pop princess that can do as she pleases."

Others didn't really see the funny side. "I had no idea this was a setup 'til this moment! Wow I vividly remember this and Mariah was definitely made to look unhinged for this," recalled one fan. "God I remember this time, the way everybody treated her was horrible. The media were out of control," slammed another, as someone else thought: "This absolutely wouldn't fly today and he'd be posting an apology online faster than Mariah's 'striptease.'"

"It was a pre-planned stunt that Carson decided to sabotage by pretending Mariah shouldn't have even been there," remembered another fan, adding: "For whatever reason, press was able to run with it, even though the idea that Mariah could get on to a set with an ice cream cart (with cameras somehow perfectly capturing her entrance) could be seen as a breakdown is beyond me."

"Carson was such a douche for setting her up. I actually think Mariah came off as cute here," added another fan. "The amount of [expletive] Carson's gotten away with. He should have been canceled long ago," slammed another, while another fan thought: "This is so cruel."