Nick Carter and Aaron Carter’s Ups and Downs By way of the Years

Previous to Aaron Carter’s dying, he had an estranged bond with sibling Nick Carter.

“My brother and I’ve at all times had an up and down relationship,” the “I Need Sweet” performer, who died in November 2022, completely informed Us Weekly in April 2017. “We’re brothers — what do you count on? We each do the identical factor too, so there’s at all times going to be an underlying competitors.”

Nick, for his half, rose to fame in 1996 as one of many 5 members of the Backstreet Boys. Because the band’s success grew, Nick — alongside bandmates Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson — invited his youthful brother to function the opening act throughout their 1997 tour.

“[Nick’s] the one who at all times wished me to do that job that I’m doing proper now,” an 11-year-old Aaron informed MTV Information in 1998. “He simply appears out for me loads.”

Nick and Aaron had been the 2 sons of Robert and Jane Carter, who divorced in 2004. Robert, who died in 2017, and Jane additionally shared daughters Bobbie and Angel in addition to Leslie, who died in 2012.

Regardless of a detailed brotherly bond as little one stars — and even a couple of musical collaborations — Nick and Aaron’s relationship turned a nook after the “Aaron’s Occasion” artist notably skipped Nick’s April 2014 marriage ceremony to Lauren Kitt.

“Actually pissed off that I missed my brother’s marriage ceremony as we speak,” Aaron wrote through Instagram on the time, noting that he was in Washington D.C. for a live performance the day earlier than. “I hope he doesn’t hate me. … I attempted to get there. I’m sorry bro @nickcarter #TechnicalProblems.”

Nick — who shares youngsters Odin, born in 2016, Saoirse, born in 2019 and Pearl, born in 2021, with Kitt — remained at odds with Aaron via the years. After the “Not Too Younger, Not Too Previous” rapper was arrested for driving beneath the affect and possession of marijuana, Nick provided a public message of assist through Twitter.

“[The] entire factor that occurred with the DUI and all that stuff [contributed to our feud]. My brother had my [phone] quantity after which [he tweets], ‘For those who want [anything, I’m here,]’” Aaron stated of their falling out throughout an August 2017 look on Elvis Duran and the Morning Present. “Like dude, what are you speaking about? You don’t even know me, Nick. You don’t even discuss to me. We see one another a few times a yr and I’m maintaining it actual with you, and that’s what it’s.”

He added: “I like my brother. I at all times will love my brother [and] I feel he loves me conditionally.”

Whereas Nick had been equally distraught over their fractured relationship, issues reached a boiling level after he accused Aaron of creating threats about Lauren and their youngsters.

“After cautious consideration, my sister Angel and I remorse that we had been required to hunt a restraining order towards our brother Aaron as we speak,” the previous Boy Band mentor tweeted in September 2019. “In gentle of Aaron’s more and more alarming conduct and his current confessions that he harbors ideas and intentions of killing my pregnant spouse and unborn little one, we had been left with no selection however to take each measure attainable to guard ourselves and our household. We love our brother and really hope he will get the right therapy he wants earlier than any hurt involves himself or anybody else.”

Aaron, for his half, denied the allegations and famous that he didn’t “intend” to see his household transferring ahead.

After Aaron’s dying on the age of 34, Nick issued an emotional assertion concerning the lack of his sibling. “My coronary heart has been damaged as we speak. Regardless that my brother and I’ve had a sophisticated relationship, my love for him has by no means ever pale,” the I Coronary heart Nick Carter alum wrote through Instagram in November 2022. “I’ve at all times held onto the hope that he would someway, sometime need to stroll a wholesome path and finally discover the assistance that he so desperately wanted.”

He concluded: “I’ll miss my brother greater than anybody will ever know. I like you Chizz.”

Scroll under to revisit the 2 brothers’ relationship via the years: