Nick Carter remains to be struggling to deal with the dying of his youthful brother, Aaron Carter.
“It’s positively been powerful for me and my household,” Nick, 43, advised Leisure Tonight in an interview printed on Friday, August 25. “It’s nonetheless one thing that we’re nonetheless processing, to today.”
He continued: “I don’t assume we are going to ever actually recover from it. It’s been loads for us, and we’re discovering methods to attempt to take a very tragic scenario in our household and do one thing with it.”
Information broke in November 2022 that Aaron was discovered lifeless in his California residence. The “I Need Sweet” rapper was 34.
Nick had been touring together with his Backstreet Boys band in Europe on the time of Aaron’s passing and the group — consisting of Nick, Kevin Richardson, AJ McLean, Brian Littrell and Howie Dorough — devoted their London present to Aaron.
“[The song ‘No Place’] could be very particular to us as a result of that music is about household,” Richardson, 51, mentioned throughout the O2 Enviornment live performance. “Everyone in right here, all of us grew up collectively. We’ve been via highs and lows, ups and downs.”
He added on the time: “Tonight we’ve received heavy hearts as a result of we misplaced one in all our relations yesterday, and we simply wished to discover a second in our present to acknowledge him. Nick’s little brother, Aaron Carter, handed away yesterday at [34] years previous. He’s part of our household. We thanks guys for all of the love and the nicely needs and all of your assist.”
Nick was noticed tearing up because the band carried out “No Place” alongside a photograph montage of Aaron, who beforehand opened for the group’s excursions again within the early ‘90s and ‘00s.
Nick famous by way of his Instagram a number of hours earlier that his coronary heart had been “damaged” by Aaron’s dying. (Aaron is survived by his siblings and his son Prince, whom he shared with Melanie Martin.)
“Regardless that my brother and I’ve had an advanced relationship, my love for him has by no means ever light,” Nick wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “I’ve all the time held onto the hope that he would in some way, sometime need to stroll a wholesome path and finally discover the assistance that he so desperately wanted. … I really like you Chizz, now you get an opportunity to lastly have some peace you would by no means discover right here on earth. God, Please deal with my child brother.”
An post-mortem later revealed that Aaron’s explanation for dying was unintended after he drowned in a bath as a result of results of difluoroethane and alprazolam.