Addison Rae Talks How She Started TikTok & Her Mariah Carey Connection

Addison Rae opens up about how she first started doing TikTok!

The 19-year-old talked about her initial reaction to the platform and how Mariah Carey got involved, in an interview with tWitch on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“I actually started it, because in high school there were people – like younger people, so I’d say the freshman in my high school when I was a senior – were doing TikToks,” Addison said. “And I was like, ‘OK, I’ll be in them, but I’m not going to get it, because I’m a senior, so I’m cool… I ended up actually getting it in July of last year.”

“So I just randomly was like, you know what? I’m in my friends’ videos, why do I not just look at them and see them?” she continued. “And then I ended up doing a video later on with my mom, and it was my mom and I to a Mariah Carey song. And Mariah Carey liked it. I was like, what??”

“That was the first time I’d ever been noticed by someone that I loved and listened to their music,” Addison said. “I don’t know, that was the craziest thing to me.”

She also dished about being friends with Kourtney Kardashian and her family. Check out the video right here.

In case you missed it, during that episode, she also joined tWitch, his wife Allison Holker and Derek Hough for a dance routine!