Aaron Carter Remembered By Nick Carter, Hilary Duff, More - Vulture

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Friends, fans, and erstwhile collaborators are paying tribute to singer and histrion Aaron Carter aft helium died connected Saturday astatine property 34. Known for hits similar “I Want Candy” and “That’s How I Beat Shaq,” Aaron grew up successful the amusement industry, releasing his archetypal medium successful 1997 astatine property 9. That aforesaid year, helium performed arsenic an opening enactment for the Backstreet Boys, his older member Nick’s band. In summation to guest-starring connected shows similar Sabrina the Teenage Witch and 7th Heaven, Aaron made a memorable quality connected Lizzie McGuire, sharing a buss with his then-girlfriend Hilary Duff successful a Christmas episode. But implicit the people of his vocation successful the spotlight, the 2000s heartthrob faced challenges with his intelligence wellness and with substance abuse. In 2019, his member Nick and sister Angel filed a restraining order against him, citing information concerns and expressing anticipation that helium would get “proper treatment.”

“My bosom is broken,” Nick wrote connected Instagram pursuing quality of Aaron’s death. “Even though my member and I person had a analyzable relationship, my emotion for him has ne'er ever faded.” The Backstreet Boys honored Aaron during their London show, with the set holding a grieving Nick. Duff besides took to societal media to retrieve the precocious singer, writing successful a statement, “I’m profoundly atrocious that beingness was truthful hard for you and that you had to conflict in-front of the full world. You had a charm that was perfectly effervescent … lad did my teenage aforesaid emotion you deeply.” Find much tributes to Aaron’s beingness from Paris Hilton, Diane Warren, *NSYNC, New Kids connected the Block, and others who knew him below.