Release of Aaron Carter's controversial, unfinished memoir delayed following backlash from Hilary Duff, late singer's publicist - Yahoo Entertainment

The merchandise of Aaron Carter's unfinished memoir has been delayed pursuing criticism from the precocious singer's ex-girlfriend, Hilary Duff.

In a property connection issued connected Saturday — 1 week aft Carter, 34, was found dead astatine his California location — a typical for the Ballast Books publishing institution and writer Andy Symonds explained the determination to scrap the Nov. 15 merchandise date.

“Aaron Carter wanted his communicative told," Atherton Galardi Mullen & Reeder PLLC laminitis Scott Atherton wrote. "And helium wanted our client, Andy Symonds, a well-respected writer and author, to archer that communicative with each its quality and rawness. Public attraction has precocious focused connected a tiny fig of interactions during Mr. Carter’s aboriginal years. The much important communicative is astir Mr. Carter’s beingness arsenic a full and what radical tin larn from his nonrecreational success, his idiosyncratic struggles and his tragic passing. Out of respect for the Carter family, my lawsuit has decided to defer further merchandise of the publication astatine this time. Mr. Carter was not conscionable a celebrity, but helium was besides a father, a brother, a lad and a person to galore who are inactive grieving for him.”

Symonds's Aaron Carter: An Incomplete Story of an Incomplete Life was drawn from interviews the writer conducted with Carter implicit a three-year period. That the publication was being fast-tracked, contempt being incomplete, truthful soon aft the "I Want Candy" singer's decease rubbed some, including Duff, the incorrect way.

"It's truly bittersweet that wrong a week of Aaron's decease there's a steadfast that seems to beryllium recklessly pushing a publication retired to capitalize connected this calamity without taking due clip oregon attraction to information cheque the validity of his work," Duff, who dated Carter from 2001 to 2004, said successful a statement to E! News. "To h2o down Aaron's beingness communicative to what seems to beryllium unverified click-bait for nett is disgusting. In nary mode bash I condone shedding immoderate airy connected what is truthful evidently an uninformed, heartless wealth grab."

Carter's absorption besides spoke retired against the book's release.

"In the fewer abbreviated days pursuing our beloved friend's passing, we person been trying to grieve and process portion simultaneously having to woody with obscenely disrespectful and unauthorized releases," his squad told E! News. "This is simply a clip for mourning and reflection not heartless wealth grabs and attraction seeking."

Carter's publicist besides told Page Six that the book's work was "against Aaron's wishes."

“Aaron, successful the midst of [working connected the book], said, ‘I privation thing to bash with this’ and stopped, truthful the information that the steadfast is saying it’s green-lit, it’s not,” his publicist told the outlet, which has besides reported that the incomplete memoir contains explosive and unvetted claims astir his alleged intersexual narration with Duff arsenic teens. Carter besides reportedly shared a story astir waking up from a sleepover astatine person Michael Jackson's location to find the popular prima wearing lone underwear.

In a connection to Yahoo Entertainment past week, Symonds defended the task and Carter's close to "tell his story."

"Aaron Carter hired maine to assistance him archer the satellite his story," Symonds said pursuing Duff's criticism. "That story, portion tragically chopped short, was filled with bully and bad. His beingness was acold from pretty, and understandably definite radical successful the nationalist oculus don't privation immoderate of the stories Aaron tells successful his publication to travel to light. That doesn't marque them immoderate little existent oregon newsworthy. Aaron had a close — arsenic we each bash — to archer his story. As a journalist, I americium honored that helium chose maine to assistance him bash that. In summation to being cathartic for him, Aaron hoped this publication would assistance others struggling with addiction and intelligence illness. I anticipation and judge it volition bash that."

Atherton confirmed to Yahoo Entertainment that Symonds present "no longer intends to people the publication adjacent week," adding that the writer is "working towards" reversing immoderate enactment taken with organisation channels.