Nick Cannon clarifies Mariah Carey's statement from interview

Many were surprised by Mariah Carey's confession of her true feelings about working on American Idol and some of her words may have been taken the wrong way.

During a radio interview Tuesday on Hot 97, Carey said her time as a judge on American Idol was like "going to work every day in hell with Satan." Rumors began to fly that Carey had called Nicki Minaj, who also served as a judge at the time, Satan.

Carey's husband Nick Cannon took it upon himself to dismiss the rumors. Cannon told Access Hollywood Live Friday that Carey wasn't specifically calling Minaj Satan.

Cannon had this to say:

"I don't think [her 'Satan' comment] was about the people on the panel. It's about when someone tells you something and paints a picture one way, and then that's not the case. If she's used to being treated a certain way and then you have a network that says, 'No, we're gonna do this,' then..."

During her interview, Carey said:

"Honestly, I hated it. Honestly, I thought it was going to be a three-person panel. They gave me a nice dangling monetary moment and I was like, 'OK ... Randy Jackson will be there' -- you know he used to play bass for me -- 'This isn't a big deal, this will be nothing.'"

"But it wasn't that," Carey continued. "It was like hell going to work every day in hell with Satan," Carey joked. "I'm just playing; it didn't affect me that much. I was disappointed."

Carey and Minaj no longer serve as judges on American Idol.