Money to burn: Mariah Carey sets her $250k Valentino wedding dress from cancelled wedding to James Packer on fire and destroys it in new music video

By Dailymail.com Reporter

Published: 14:16 EST, 5 February 2017 | Updated: 14:43 EST, 5 February 2017

There was no mistaking the symbolism when Mariah Carey was pictured burning a wedding dress in the music video for her new single I Don't.

But now it has emerged that the white tulle she torched was the genuine $250,000 Valentino gown she had planned to wear to her cancelled Bora Bora nuptials.

The singer, whose nasty break-up from James Packer inspired the song, was seen being fitted for the gown in her reality show Mariah's World.

What a waste! Mariah burnt her own custom $250,000 Valentino wedding dress in I Don't music video, it has been revealed

Work of art: She was seen been fitted for the gown with repeated visits to the designer on her show Mariah's World

Are you watching James Packer? All that hard work went up in smoke when, in a pointed dig at the Australian billionaire, she sent the gown up in flames for an explosive scene

Ever the perfectionist, Mariah went back to the designer again and again in a bid to get the plunging fairytale gown just right.

But all that hard work went up in smoke when, in a pointed dig at the Australian billionaire, she sent the gown up in flames for an explosive scene.

And sources told TMZ, that setting fire to the custom gown wasn't the only message Mariah sent to James in the video, as she also filmed the footage at the home they used to share in Calabasas.

Red hot! She also filmed the footage at the home they used to share in Calabasas

On fire! The dress went up in flames in spectacular fashion

Sending Packer packing! There is no going back now

'I Don't' features the lyrics: 'Cause when you love someone, you just don't treat them bad, you messed up all we had. Probably think I'm coming back, but I don't, I don't.'

And Mariah recently admitted the track had been inspired by the breakdown of her relationship.

Speaking on her reality TV show Mariah's World, she said: 'Ever since the tour wrapped I took some time just to process my feelings and I started writing a song to express what I've been going through.

'If you're not getting the love that you need from someone that you're supposed to be in a real relationship with, then why remain in that situation?'

No regrets: Mariah was pictured on a night out with new boyfriend Bryan Tanaka on Saturday

The Fantasy singer - who has five-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-husband Nick Cannon and is now dating dancer Bryan Tanaka - recently admitted she finds songwriting to be "very healing".

She said: 'I need to be in the studio. I feel like a different person when I'm not in the studio.

'Performing is a whole different thing, but being in the studio is creating and that's what I love to do best. Songwriting is very healing for me. The studio and the experience of creating new music, it feels so much more like home to me than anywhere else.'

 

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