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Posted: October 5, 2012 at 2:12 a.m.

Mariah Carey told Barbara Walters that her fellow American Idol judge Nicki Minaj threatened to shoot her, Walters reported on ABC’s The View on Thursday morning. Consulting her notes, Wa l t e r s recounted a phone conversation with Carey just before the ABC talk show went on the air, with new details of Tuesday’s blowup between the singer and Minaj that was partly captured on video made public on the TMZ website. Walters said Carey told her that “when Nicki walked off the set, multiple people heard Nicki say, ‘If I had a gun I would shoot the [adjective unspoken by Walters] b****.”’

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