The brother of famous Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, has been found dead in his bathtub, after what some friends suspect was a drug overdose.
34-year old Aaron Carter’s neighbors said they heard someone screaming ‘he’s dead, he’s dead’, when a staff member found him unresponsive in a bathtub at his California home.
One neighbor, a local photojournalist said, “I heard on my police scanner the call come in that there was an unresponsive male in the bathtub. My wife is a nurse and she rushed over to Carter’s home with her AED (automated external defibrillator) and banged on the door.”
“A woman answered the door and was screaming ‘he’s dead, he’s dead’ but wouldn’t let us in because she’d already called the cops,” he added.
Representatives for Carter’s family confirmed the singer’s death. His fiancée, Melanie Martin, who was spotted outside his house breaking down in tears, asked for privacy as the family grieves.
Authorities said, they received a 911 call at 11 a.m. on Saturday, saying ‘a male had drowned in the tub.’ They were contacted by a house sitter, who had found his body.
Melanie had to wait hours before police would even tell her anything, and she was desperate to see their many pet dogs still in the house.
Homicide detectives were dispatched to the scene, but there is no information or evidence of foul play at this time. Emergency services have been spotted outside Carter’s Lancaster home.
A coroner was seen removing Carter’s body from the home later Saturday.
Carter, who opened for the Backstreet Boys on a 1997 tour, shot to fame in the 90s releasing four studio albums, starting with his self-titled debut album in 1997 when he was only 9 years old.
In the embattled rapper’s last performance before his untimely death he can be heard singing that ‘he’ll be gone but it’s not for long’.
The video was posted to Instagram just a day before the shock announcement.
A close friend of Carter’s said, ” I don’t think he tried to commit suicide. He had been planning studio sessions with other artists the following week for an album.”
“Aaron had also told me that he was excited to showcase new music and work with the artists, who were traveling to Los Angeles specifically for a duet,” the friend added. “Any suggestion he was suicidal last night when he was in contact with his friends and team is wrong.Hearing the news this morning was absolutely devastating.”
The friend added that Carter had a good heart, was a talented artist and wanted to show the world that he was a great father and continue strongly with his music career.
The friend also said, “Aaron was always adamant he took medication and pills that were prescribed by doctors. He would swear blind he did not take narcotics like cocaine.”
Carter notably battled addiction for many years, facing legal issues and even entered rehabilitation while continuing with his music career.
In 2019, he revealed on ‘The Doctors’ that he was diagnosed with ‘multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, acute anxiety and manic depression.
The troubled celebrity is survived by his son Prince.
Prince’s mother and on-again-off-again girlfriend, Melanie Martin, posted to Tik Tok crying just minutes after the announcement.
Martin released a statement later on Saturday, “My fiancé Aaron Carter has passed away. I love Aaron with all my heart and it’s going to be a journey to raise a son without a father. Please respect the privacy of my family as we come to terms with the loss of someone we love greatly. We are still in the process of accepting this unfortunate reality. Your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated.”
Hilary Duff, who famously dated Carter in the early 2000s, paid tribute to her ex-boyfriend in a touching Instagram post Saturday evening following the shocking announcement of the singer and actor’s death.
“‘”For Aaron – I’m deeply sorry that life was so hard for you and that you had to struggle in front of the whole world. You had a charm that was absolutely effervescent… boy did my teenage self love you dearly. Sending love to your family at this time. Rest easy.,” Duff wrote.
Carter was pulled over on suspicion of DUI on Tuesday last week, after his on-off girlfriend Melanie Martin called the police, with the embattled singer later cleared of any wrongdoing.
Carter was driving an RV in Antelope Valley around 10:45 a.m. when police got a call about a driver possibly driving under the influence and weaving through traffic.
Officers conducted field sobriety tests on the star and found him to be not under the influence. In a bizarre turn, he later locked his keys inside the RV with photos showing the singer getting into the vehicle via the roof hatch to retrieve them.
Carter has since spoken out against being portrayed as a washed-up drug addict despite turning his life around for the better and marking five years sober.
