Angel Carter, twin sister of late singer Aaron Carter, opened up about his battle with addiction.
In an exclusive interview with People, Angel Carter, 35, revealed the family’s pressures of “fame and fortune” and the tragic deaths of their father, Robert Carter, and sister, Leslie Carter, were the catalysts to Aaron Carter’s problems with addiction.
She also revealed the siblings had a childhood plagued with dysfunction, emotional abuse, and addiction.
“I always felt like that was the beginning of the end. Aaron was already in a bad place, but it was like a domino effect,” she said.
Speaking on his downward spiral, Angel Carter said she “kept waiting for him to snap out of it.”
“But he never did,” she added.
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“He wanted so badly to be happy. He really fought to the end, but he just had too many problems to be fixed,” Angel Carter continued.
At that time, she told People her brother became unrecognizable and she doesn’t “even think he recognized himself.”
Aaron Carter died on Nov. 5, 2022. He was 34 years old.
According to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, Carter died from accidental drowning, per Fox News.
The effects of substances such as “difluoroethane and alprazolam” were listed as contributing factors to his death.
In 2020, Aaron Carter appeared on the show “The Doctors” and spoke about his addiction to huffing which started at age 16. Huffing involves inhaling fumes from household products.
“Then I started to go to Staples and Office Depot and different places buying it with cash so it wouldn’t be reported on receipts or anything like that, so no one could trace me,” the “I Want Candy” singer said.
Furthermore, he shared his reasoning behind his substance abuse.
“I was huffing because I was really f***king stupid and sad, but this is really no excuse. I was huffing because I’m a drug addict,” he explained.