Mariah and Mexican singer Luis Migel first went on a blind date in 1998 in Aspen, Colorado, according to People. But Mariah said in her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey that he didn’t impress her at first.

“After we had both had a few drinks and an awkward dinner, I still couldn’t get rid of him… I had just met this guy and he was drunk off his ass,” she wrote. But he sent her a Bulgari necklace the next day. “I soon learned that was his way; he was an authentic, over-the-top Latin lover, for real,” she said.

The two dated until 2001 before they broke things off, with Mariah later saying they each struggled with personal issues and couldn’t make the relationship work anymore.

“I tried my best to support him emotionally, but I was going through my own s*** and it got to a point where I could no longer deal with it. We were not helping each other heal,” she wrote.