Angel Carter Conrad, the dual sister of late pop star Aaron Carter, is sharing painful reminiscences of her brother’s experiences with habit.
On Thursday’s episode of “The Squeeze” podcast, Carter Conrad stated she’d truly begun mentally getting ready herself for Aaron Carter’s loss of life when their sister, Leslie Carter, died of a drug overdose in 2012 at age 25.
“[Leslie’s] death completely blindsided me. I didn’t see that one coming,” she stated. “When she died, I was already in therapy preparing for Aaron’s death. I thought he was going to die. I feared it my entire 20s.”
“I knew this day was going to come, and I think he knew it, too, because he could not get out of it,” she added.
Aaron Carter died of an unintended drug overdose in Nov. 2022 at age 34. Out of the 5 Carter siblings, solely Carter Conrad and her older brother, singer Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, are nonetheless alive. Sister Bobbie Jean Carter died in December 2023 at age 41, additionally of a drug overdose.
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A Tampa, Florida native, Aaron Carter shot to international fame as a teen within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s with hit songs like “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)” and “I Want Candy.” He appeared alongside his siblings on the E! actuality collection, “House of Carters,” in 2006.
His later years, nonetheless, had been outlined by his experiences with drug and alcohol abuse, in addition to his publicly strained relationship along with his household. In 2017, he was arrested for driving underneath the affect, and entered rehab that very same 12 months. He acknowledged having a huffing habit in 2019.
In her “Squeeze” chat, Carter Conrad stated she understood that issues “were really bad for him, drug-wise” early on and described her twin as “out of control.” However she believes Aaron Carter’s function as a “breadwinner,” in addition to the Carter household’s lengthy historical past with habit, prevented him from in search of the assistance he wanted.
“I would be really honest with Aaron and I would call him out on his stuff … but he didn’t want to hear that from me. He wanted to hear that from my mom and dad,” she stated. “It was my mom and dad’s job to step up for their kid … but because they couldn’t even help themselves, how are they going to be able to help Aaron?”
Aaron and Nick Carter had been the themes of an Investigation Discovery docuseries, “Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter,” launched final month.
Take heed to Angel Carter Conrad’s “The Squeeze” interview under. Her feedback on Aaron Carter start across the 36:28 mark.
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