VIDEO : Production company calls Mariah Carey's sabotage claim 'absurd'

Dick Clark Productions is hitting back against Mariah Carey's claim it sabotaged her live performance on its "New Year's Rockin' Eve" special. Her representative Nicole Perna blamed technical difficulties, and in an interview with Billboard she said Dick Clark Productions hampered Carey's performance. Perna told Billboard, "She was not winging this moment and took it very seriously. A shame that production set her up to fail.