Nick Carter has paid tribute to his youthful brother, Aaron Carter, who was discovered useless at his dwelling in Southern California. The singer, rapper and sibling of Backstreet Boys vocalist Nick Carter was 34.
On Instagram on Sunday, Nick Carter shared a sequence of images from his childhood with Aaron Carter. In the images, the brothers may be seen strolling arm-in-arm by the woods, having fun with a household boat journey, sharing some hugs and smiling on the seaside.
“My heart is broken,” Nick Carter captioned the submit.
“Even though my brother and I have had a complicated relationship, my love for him has never ever faded. I have always held on to the hope that he would somehow, someday want to walk a healthy path and eventually find the help that he so desperately needed.”
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department mentioned on Saturday that authorities have been investigating the circumstances surrounding Aaron Carter’s dying after receiving a name from a home sitter who discovered him unresponsive in a tub.
Following in his pop-star brother’s footsteps, Aaron Carter started recording and releasing music at simply 9 years previous.
In the late Nineties, he dropped his eponymous debut album and opened for the Backstreet Boys on tour. His early hits included Aaron’s Party (Come Get It), Crazy Little Party Girl, I Want Candy and That’s How I Beat Shaq.
Over the years, Nick and Aaron Carter made quite a few public appearances collectively onstage and at Hollywood occasions. Their sibling dynamic was additionally explored on the short-lived actuality TV sequence, House of Carters, which premiered in 2006 on E!
The “complicated relationship” among the many Carter siblings emerged publicly in 2019, when Nick Carter and sister Angel Carter filed a restraining order towards their brother.
The brothers subsequently traded a sequence of allegations, with Aaron Carter accusing Nick Carter of bullying him his “whole life” and raping a lady, and Nick Carter claiming that Aaron Carter admitted to having “thoughts and intentions of killing” Nick Carter’s pregnant spouse. Both denied the allegations.
Though Aaron Carter insisted he was sober for 2 years when the restraining order was filed, he had been open previously about his struggles with substance use, in addition to numerous psychological well being situations – together with character dysfunction, schizophrenia, acute anxiousness and manic despair.
He repeatedly checked into rehab in an effort to remain sober, up till September of this yr.
“Sometimes we want to blame someone or something for a loss, but the truth is that addiction and mental illness is the real villain here,” Nick Carter wrote in his farewell to Aaron.
“I will miss my brother more than anyone will ever know. I love you Chizz. Now you can finally have the peace you could never find here on earth. … I love you baby brother.”
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