Inside Aaron Carter’s Remaining Days Earlier than ‘Stunning’ Demise

Heavy hearts. Aaron Carter‘s demise at age 34 was “tremendous surprising” to these closest to him, a supply completely reveals within the new difficulty of Us Weekly.

The ’00s star was discovered lifeless in his California residence on Saturday, November 5, a rep confirmed to Us. A 911 name was made at 11 a.m. native time, in accordance with a number of shops. Carter’s official reason for demise has not but been made public, however the musician struggled together with his psychological well being and had a historical past of substance abuse.

“Those that’ve identified him for years by no means noticed Aaron like this [before],” the insider tells Us, noting that buddies noticed the Florida native exhibit “weird habits” and “slurring his phrases” forward of his demise.

Carter was informed by shut confidants that “everybody wished him to go to rehab,” however the supply tells Us the Dancing With the Stars alum initially put up a combat.

Melanie Martin, the “I Need Sweet” artist’s ex-fiancée, additionally expressed issues about her former flame, with whom she shares 11-month-old son Prince. “Regularly, she was attempting to assist him get off medicine and go to rehab,” the supply says. “It was a continuing battle.”

In response to the insider, Martin “reached out” to an outpatient facility on Carter’s behalf, however the try didn’t seem to achieve success.

The “Aaron’s Occasion” singer beforehand gushed about his expertise as a first-time father throughout an unique interview with Us in December 2021. “The individual that I’m in the present day — I need to be a greater model of [the person] I used to be the day previous to that. So tomorrow, I need to be a greater model of myself than I used to be the day earlier than that,” he defined. “In order that’s actually what I’m striving for and actually simply peace and serenity and exercising these issues extra. And actually holding my very own self accountable for my shortcomings.”

Carter and Martin had a rocky romance, breaking apart and reuniting a number of occasions since getting engaged in June 2020. Although they known as it quits earlier this 12 months, the Bulgaria native has candidly expressed her grief after the Home of Carter alum’s demise.

“I used to be actually trying ahead to getting married and having extra kids with him,” she completely informed Us in a press release on Monday, November 7. “I really feel like we had been very shut and I used to be trying ahead to spending the vacations with my household once more. I’m past devastated ready till I can meet my great soulmate once more. We by no means gave up on our love and I really feel like we each couldn’t stay with out one another.”

The late pop star, in the meantime, was beforehand outspoken about his darkest moments. “I assumed I’d die by 30,” he informed Us in 2017. “Even once I was 13, 14, I assumed, ‘Oh, my God. I’m going to die.’ … I am going by way of loads of ache, and my ache is mirrored in my music.”

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