Aaron Carter’s Sister Says She Ready for His Dying for Years

Aaron Carter‘s twin sister, Angel Carter Conrad, was saddened however not stunned by her brother’s 2022 death. 

Angel, 36, sat down with Taylor Lautner and his spouse, additionally named Taylor Lautner, on the couple’s The Squeeze podcast to debate her household’s complicated dynamic and the premature deaths of her siblings. Her sister, Leslie Carter, died at 25 in 2012 from an overdose. 

“Her demise utterly blindsided me. I did not see that one coming,” Angel shared. “When she died, I used to be already in remedy making ready for Aaron’s demise. I assumed he was gonna die.” 

The “Aaron’s Celebration” singer died years later, in 2022, as a result of results of taking alprazolam, which is a generic type of Xanax, and inhaling difluoroethane. He was 34. 

“I feared it my whole 20s,” she stated of Aaron’s demise. “I knew at the present time was gonna come. And I believe he knew it too, ‘trigger he simply could not — he couldn’t get out of it.” 

Angel stated that she served as “the peace maker” within the household and attempted to help Aaron along with his dependancy struggles through the years. 

“He did not need to hear that from me,” she admitted. “I used to be his sister, like, ‘Keep in your lane. You are my sister. I do not need to hear that from you.’ Like, he wanted his dad and mom to step up.” 

Angel detailed her traumatic childhood, together with allegations of sexual assault and years of substance abuse amongst relations. Her different sister, Bobbie Jean Carter, died at 41 in 2023 of “intoxication as a result of mixed results of fentanyl and methamphetamine.”

Angel’s solely surviving sibling is Nick Carter, 44, of the Backstreet Boys. 

“We had no boundaries in my household,” she stated. “I really feel fortunate that I did not permit these experiences to outline me, however my siblings did not have the identical response to that and there wasn’t anyone that we may go to and say, ‘Hey, that is taking place.'” 

Angel’s father, Robert Gene Carter, died in 2017 after providing a tearful apology to his daughter. 

“He known as me two years earlier than he handed and simply profusely apologized, and was crying, and simply, like, owned his half,” Angel stated on The Squeeze. “[He] was like, ‘I used to be a nasty mother or father.’ … ‘I am actually sorry for what I did.'” 

She continued, “Simply listening to that from him, that was all I wanted.” 

Angel, whose dad and mom divorced in 2004, stated that she has not had an identical dialog along with her mom, who remains to be residing. 

“It is a difficult relationship,” Angel stated of her mother, noting that she has labored as an grownup to grasp and set up boundaries in her life. 

“I’ve needed to set boundaries for myself with my mother with the intention to shield my progress and my therapeutic, and to evolve,” she defined. “So proper now, my relationship with my mother is simply, it would not exist at this second.”

She added that she is open to reconciliation if her mom “decides to show her life round and to personal her doings.”

“I’ve a lot forgiveness in my coronary heart for all my relations as a result of I knew what it was like rising up in that home,” she stated. “I’ve such a deep understanding now for psychology and for why all these issues occur, particularly with dependancy. It would not serve any justice to level fingers at anyone and to be like, ‘You probably did this.’ No, all we’ve got is as we speak and tomorrow and shifting ahead, and I want to hold shifting ahead and to maintain residing my life and to dwell in an area the place I do not maintain on to the previous.”

Aaron’s struggles had been not too long ago explored within the docuseries Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter. On prime of Aaron’s private tribulations, the present additionally coated the multiple sexual assault allegations towards Nick. The previous boy band member has denied the allegations against him, even calling one declare “a factual impossibility.” 

Angel and Aaron’s group additionally recently released his previously unheard single, “Restoration,” and album of the identical identify. Proceeds from the album gross sales are benefiting the Youngsters Psychological Well being Basis.

Aaron is survived by his 2-year-old son, Prince, whom the star shared along with his former fiancée, Melanie Martin. 

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