Honestly, I hated it," she confessed.
"Here'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, 'Okay, Randy
Jackson will be
there; I've known him forever. He used to play bass for me. Like, this isn't a
big deal. This will be nothing.'"
"But it wasn't
that," she continued. "It was like going to work every day in hell
with Satan."
There was one bright spot in Carey's Idol experience, though. "You know
what I loved? I loved the contestants," she told Martinez. "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."
The mom of two added that she's happy to be back where she
belongs -- in the studio. Neither she nor Minaj will return to American Idol for season 15.
