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While Mariah Carey never quite managed Thurs finish her sentence that began, "Please forgive me because I am a little bit ...," others who witnessed her Rambling, seven-minute acceptance speech Sunday night at California's Palm Springs International Film Festival offered plenty of suggestions .

Jet-lagged? Inebriated?

Maybe just nervous. Festival organizers claimed that the Grammy Award winning diva, Whose glammed-down performance as a social worker in Precious won her Palm Springs's breakthrough performance award, was slightly spaced-out "Because she was not Used to speaking in front of Eminent peers such as Sean Penn, Morgan Freeman, Jeff Bridges, Clint Eastwood and Dame Helen Mirren. More Story and Video