LOS ANGLES, CALIFORNIA: Aaron Carter, the younger brother of the Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter, was found dead at his home in Lancaster, California, on November 5 last year. The autopsy revealed that his death was caused by drowning due to the effects of sedatives he had taken and gas he had inhaled.
At present, the late American singer's twin sister, Angel, spoke about her brother's tragic and untimely death. She detailed how Aaron "fought to the end" during his battle with addiction and how they grew up in a toxic family environment surrounded by alcohol, as reported by People.
What did Aaron Carter's sister say?
"Fame and money took over our family," Angel shared during an interview with People. "Aaron was already in a bad place, but it was like a domino effect." According to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, the "effects of difluoroethane and alprazolam" were listed as contributing factors in his death.
"I just kept waiting for him to snap out of it," Angel explained. "But he never did." "He wanted so badly to be happy," she said before adding "He really fought to the end, but he just had too many problems to be fixed. He’d become this person who we no longer recognized. I don’t even think he recognized himself."
Aaron publicly struggled with addiction
Aaron publicly struggled with substance abuse throughout his entire life and previously admitted his sister Leslie, who died from an overdose in 2012, introduced him to huffing, the practice of inhaling fumes from household items.
Aaron took to social media to post videos of himself with the guns he owned in August 2019, which concerned his family members, especially his twin sister. According to the media outlet, Aaron additionally shared videos of himself surrounded by weapons and inhaling gas canisters while telling his fans how he thought his family was going to kill him.
Aaron's mother Jane shared disturbing photos of the bathroom where his body was found on her Facebook page. Jane insisted Aaron’s death be further investigated as a possible homicide at the time. The photos showed the bathtub where Aaron was found in a decomposed state and his towels and clothes laid across a messy floor.
"It was a true invasion of privacy and something that Aaron would’ve never wanted the public to see," Angel, who hasn’t spoken to her mother since the tragic incident, explained. "Aaron dying was the worst possible outcome for all of us. My brother deserves to be here." Angel added that their childhood was "filled with emotional abuse, dysfunction, and addiction."
"I want Aaron’s legacy to be more than those final years of his life," Angel said. Aaron is survived by his one-year-old son, Prince, with fiancee Melanie Martin.
