Aaron Carter ‘By no draw The truth is Dealt with a Lot of Trauma’ from Sister and Father’s Deaths, Says Offer

In the last decade main as much as his contain death at age 34 on Saturday, Aaron Carter lost a pair of immediate family participants to different causes, and his fight with substance abuse worsened in the aftermath, sources cessation to the gradual pop wide name and rapper allege PEOPLE.

“Aaron never actually handled loads of trauma he had,” says the insider, referencing Aaron’s older sister Leslie, who died at age 25 of an overdose in 2012, and father Robert, who died at age 65 of a supposed coronary heart attack (in line with TMZ) in 2017. “He became actually torn up when Leslie died, nevertheless it became Bob’s death that if truth be told threw him.”

The source continues, “He had this form of dysfunctional relationship with both fogeys, nonetheless something about losing his dad actually threw him. That’s once I observed him actually begin to spiral. He had gotten in be troubled sooner than, nonetheless he went from a partier to something worthy extra dusky then. It became love he gave up.”

Aaron and Robert Carter.
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Aaron became chanced on Saturday morning at his dwelling in Lancaster, California, in line with TMZ, who first reported the news. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division advised PEOPLE a body became chanced on steady sooner than 11 a.m., nonetheless police did no longer formally name the victim.

Police sources allege PEOPLE the massive name became chanced on by a house sitter in his bathtub, and that there have been prescribed medication and drug paraphernalia in his bedroom. Though a explanation for death has no longer yet been optimistic, the police sources judge he lost consciousness and drowned.

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The wide name faced steady troubles and struggled with addiction over the years, for which he sought remedy. Most nowadays, he became pulled over for suspicion of DUI on Tuesday, nonetheless officers chanced on that he wasn’t below the influence after conducting a field sobriety test, TMZ reported.

Robert, Leslie and Aaron Carter.
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One other source cessation to Aaron tells PEOPLE that he did no longer have a solid fortify system ahead of his death. “He had no one he might per chance perchance additionally belief, and no-one relied on him. He became spiraling out of administration and he knew it,” says the insider. “It became unhappy to peep. It became in actuality painful to watch him set apart the alternatives he made.”

Leslie and Aaron Carter.
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Quickly after his death became confirmed, Aaron’s twin sister Angel posted an Instagram tribute to the “I Prefer Candy” singer alongside family photography of the pair as infants and young childhood. “To my twin… I loved you previous measure. That you might per chance be overlooked dearly,” she began. “My amusing, sweet Aaron, I in actuality have so many memories of you … and I promise to seem after them.”

Angel added: “I know you are at peace now. I will raise you with me till the day I die and web to watch you all another time. 💔.”

Besides to Angel and Leslie, Aaron became additionally a sibling to brother Reduce Carter and sister Bobbie Jean Carter, to boot as half of-sister Virginia Marie Carter, half of-brother Kaden Brent Carter, and step-sister Taelyn Dobson.

At some level of a Backstreet Boys reside performance in London on Sunday, Reduce, 42, and the neighborhood honored his brother’s memory onstage. Midway throughout the label, singer Kevin Richardson advised the crowd at the O2 Area: “Tonight we received a tiny little bit of little bit of heavy hearts because we lost one amongst our family participants the day earlier than at the present time.”

“We steady desired to procure a moment in our label to transfer seeking that Reduce’s tiny brother, Aaron Carter, handed away the day earlier than at the present time at 34 years traditional,” added Richardson, 51. “He became a a part of our family and we thanks guys for the total look after and the total well wishes and the total fortify.”

In photography posted on the Theatre web residing All That Dazzles, Reduce then grew to become emotional. In response, bandmates AJ McLean, Howie Dorough and Brian Littrell rushed over to embody him — with Littrell offering his sleeve for Carter to wipe his eyes.

“We would clutch to commit this subsequent song to our tiny brother Aaron Carter. That you might per chance be overlooked brother,” Dorough announced sooner than the band launched into “Breathe.”

In different places right throughout the label, a montage of Reduce and Aaron in numerous stages of their lives became shown on a veil right throughout the song “No Topic.” This lastly settled on a solo shot of Aaron, with “Aaron Carter 1987-2022” shown in wide textual whine.

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