Nicki Minaj on Mariah Carey Feud: I Compensated by “Being Crazy”

They were captured slinging insults when behind-the-scenes footage was sensationally released during American Idol auditions in October.

But Nicki Minaj is over her feud with Mariah Carey.

The American Idol judge spoke to Ellen DeGeneres in a pre-taped interview set to air on later today (January 15^th), insisting she’s ‘not a crazy psycho’ – her feelings were just hurt after she felt Mariah didn’t want her on the panel. Minaj, 30, opens up about the conflict during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres for the comedian’s talk show. In it, she confesses to acting “crazy” around her fellow judge but says she’s ready now to bury the hatchet.

Niki Minaj on Ellen's Show

Read Minaj’s response… When DeGeneres asks what happened between the two?

“I don’t know…It was just two big ol’ divas, I guess,”

“I was, like, just sitting there and I guess before I went in there, I heard all this stuff that was being said, but I didn’t believe it,” the rapper explains. “I heard them saying, like, ‘Mariah doesn’t want you on the panel.’ But I was saying, ‘No, I’m friends with Mariah.’ I was arguing people down.

Idol Judges- Randy Jackson, Mariah Carey, Keith Urban and Nicki Minaj and host Ryan Seacrest

Like, ‘Don’t believe everything you read! You’re crazy.’ So I went there, and I started feeling a little bit of ‘the shade.’ And I just kind of overcompensated by being crazier.”

“It’s like a defense mechanism,” she continues. “It’s really that your feelings are hurt…so you kind of just compensate by being crazy.”

Minaj soon realized that wasn’t helping matters, though. So she reined in her behavior.

“We’re fine [now],” she insists. “I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don’t understand is that I’ve looked up to her for so many years…I don’t know if she’s gotten over it, but I have. I mean, I’m over there cracking up, laughing, having fun. So if she’s still holding a grudge, I don’t know. I don’t care.”

The hip hop star admits to caring about other things, though — namely, how she’ll come across to the public when the live shows begin airing. “I don’t want to look like a crazy psycho again,”

She says. “I am really not a crazy psycho, you guys. I swear.”

Yeah Yeah, we disbelieve YOU!!!

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