Jenny McCarthy: Mariah’s voice ‘is not there anymore’

Jenny McCarthy, who co-hosted “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” says that Mariah Carey‘s disastrous performance wasn’t about technical problems, but that “her voice is not there anymore.”

“It’s completely unfair and bulls–t for [Mariah] to blame Dick Clark Productions,” McCarthy said on her Sirius XM show on Tuesday. “I think Mariah was nervous as hell. I think she chose really tough songs to try to sing along with. I think ‘Emotions,’ that song, I mean her voice is not there anymore. I don’t think there is a problem with her inner ears. I just don’t. I think she used it as an excuse.”

Carey has said her earpiece did not work, and her team has accused the show of sabotaging her performance for ratings. Dick Clark Productions has called the allegations “defamatory, outrageous and, frankly, absurd.”

McCarthy says she tried to have sympathy for Carey, but that her “sympathy stopped, however, the moment she accused Dick Clark Productions of sabotaging her performance.”

“Now I do understand our egos of course want to blame everyone but itself for mistakes,” she explained. “If Dick Clark were alive today, I guarantee he would be on air right now fighting back. He’s not, so I’m going to … I have never seen a production company more supportive of their musical guests. So for her to defame them was so incredibly insulting for the group of people who work their balls off preparing and rehearsing.”

She also pointed out that Carey’s backup dancers managed to hear the music and keep up with the beat.

Carey’s team has said they did a sound check and were told problems would be fixed, while DCP said that she did not do one. McCarthy said, “Mariah didn’t do a sound check. She did whatever you would call like a dance move rehearsal holding her gold microphone, and she stood off to the side of the stage while she had a stand-in do a sound check.”

McCarthy’s husband, Donnie Wahlberg, chimed in, “The bucks stops with the artist,” adding that the performance was “the perfect end of a year of no one taking accountability.”