5 months after his tragic passing, Aaron Carter‘s explanation for dying was made public on Tuesday (April 18).
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner dominated the previous baby star’s dying unintentional, stating that he drowned within the bathtub at his dwelling in Lancaster, Calif., after inhaling difluoroethane and taking alprazolam.
Based on reporting by each Individuals and TMZ, the lethal mixture of the gasoline, usually utilized in cans of compressed air, and the generic model of Xanax precipitated Carter to turn out to be “incapacitated whereas within the bathtub” and finally slip under the floor of the water whereas beneath the affect.
On the time of his dying, the singer’s older brother, Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter, posted an emotional and devastating memorial to him, writing, “My coronary heart is damaged. Despite the fact that my brother and I’ve had a sophisticated relationship, my love for him has by no means ever pale. I’ve at all times held on to the hope that he would by some means, sometime need to stroll a wholesome path and finally discover the assistance that he so desperately wanted…God, Please maintain my child brother.” Nick Carter has since launched a psychological well being fund in Aaron’s reminiscence as effectively.
Different tributes honoring Carter poured in throughout social media from everybody from Hilary Duff — whom he dated briefly within the early 2000s — and New Youngsters on the Block to Paris Hilton, Christy Carlson Romano, Melissa Joan Hart and extra. Controversy erupted among the many onetime teen heartthrob’s fanbase when he was ignored of the “In Memoriam” phase on the 2023 Grammy Awards only a few months later.