Mariah Carey wasn't specifically calling Nicki Minaj Satan, husband Nick Cannon said.

 

Nick Cannon said his wife, Mariah Carey, wasn't specifically referring to Nicki Minaj when she said her time as a judge on "American Idol" was like "going to work every day in hell with Satan."

Carey sparked rumors she was calling Minaj Satan during a radio interview Tuesday on Hot 97.
"Honestly, I hated it," she said. "Honestly, I thought it was going to be a three-person panel. They gave me a nice dangling monetary moment and I was like, 'OK ... Randy Jackson will be there' -- you know he used to play bass for me -- 'This isn't a big deal, this will be nothing.'"
"But it wasn't that," Carey continued. "It was like hell going to work every day in hell with Satan," Carey joked. "I'm just playing; it didn't affect me that much. I was disappointed."
But Cannon told Access Hollywood Live Friday that Carey wasn't specifically calling Minaj Satan.

"I don't think [her 'Satan' comment] was about the people on the panel. It's about when someone tells you something and paints a picture one way, and then that's not the case," Cannon said Friday. "If she's used to being treated a certain way and then you have a network that says, 'No, we're gonna do this,' then..."

Carey and Minaj have both left the show, replaced by Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban.