“ death completely blindsided me. I didn’t see that one coming,” she said. “When she died, I was already in therapy preparing for Aaron’s death. I thought he was going to die. I feared it my entire 20s.”
“I knew this day was going to come, and I think he knew it, too, because he could not get out of it,” she added.in Nov. 2022 at age 34. Out of the five Carter siblings, only Carter Conrad and her older brother, singerA Tampa, Florida native, Aaron Carter shot to global fame as a teen in the late 1990s and early 2000s with hit songs like “Aaron’s Party ” and “I Want Candy.
His later years, however, were defined by his experiences with drug and alcohol abuse, as well as his publicly strained relationship with his family. In 2017, heIn her “Squeeze” chat, Carter Conrad said she understood that things “were really bad for him, drug-wise” early on and described her twin as “out of control.” But she believes Aaron Carter’s role as a “breadwinner,” as well as the Carter family’s long history with addiction, prevented him from seeking the help he needed.
“I would be really honest with Aaron and I would call him out on his stuff ... but he didn’t want to hear that from me. He wanted to hear that from my mom and dad,” she said. “It was my mom and dad’s job to step up for their kid ... but because they couldn’t even help themselves, how are they going to be able to help Aaron?”Listen to Angel Carter Conrad’s “The Squeeze” interview below. Her comments on Aaron Carter begin around the 36:28 mark.