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  • Aaron Carter Is Two Years Sober, But Urging His Mom Into Treatment

    Aaron Carter Is Two Years Sober, But Urging His Mom Into Treatment

    Carter announced that he is canceling part of his tour to focus on his mental health and family.

    Shortly after revealing that he lives with a host of mental health issues, pop singer Aaron Carter has canceled much of his tour to focus on his mental health and family issues. 

    Carter appeared on The Doctors last week and spoke openly about his mental health diagnoses. 

    “The official diagnosis is that I suffer from multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, acute anxiety. I’m manic depressive,” he said, according to TooFab. “I’m prescribed to Xanax, Seroquel, gabapentin, hydroxyzine, trazodone, omeprazole.”

    Despite needing to use prescription drugs to manage his condition, Carter said that he has been sober for two years. He revealed that he went to rehab in 2017 because he was huffing aerosol cans.

    His Mother’s Battle

    Although he doesn’t appear to be doing well, he said on the show that his mother Jane is in desperate need for treatment for her alcohol use. 

    “My mother is struggling. She’s a very bad alcoholic,” he said. “Alcohol is her best friend… She’s ruined all of her relationships.”

    He is afraid that if Jane doesn’t get help, her substance use will have deadly consequences. “What scares me the most is that she is dying. I feel like if she doesn’t get the help now, she’s going to die in the next six months to a year,” he said. 

    At the end of the show, Jane agreed to go to rehab. 

    Taking A Break For Mental Health

    However, a few days later, Carter announced on Twitter that he is canceling part of his tour to focus on his mental health and family. 

    “I have to put my health first and I hope you can all understand how much I need this time to heal and recharge my batteries,” he wrote on Twitter. “I love you. Stay strong. Stay healthy, and just know I’ll be back next year ready to go. But as a man, this is what I need to do to have some peace. Xo”

    Abuse From a Young Age

    Thursday morning, Carter made a shocking allegation on social media, setting off a Twitterstorm on his feed. “My sister raped me from the age of 10 to 13 years old when she wasn’t on her medications and I was abused not only sexually by her but by my first two back up dancers when I was 8 years old. And my brother abused me my whole life,” he posted early this morning.

    “I feel cleansed all my truth is out I just need to focus now on my music my career and supporting all victims of abuse and rape,” he tweeted.

    This came a day after his older brother Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys shared that he filed a restraining order against Aaron, “in light of Aaron’s increasingly alarming behavior and his recent confession that he harbors thoughts and intentions of killing my pregnant wife and unborn child.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Aaron Carter Talks To "The Doctors" About Psych Meds: "This Is My Reality"

    Aaron Carter Talks To "The Doctors" About Psych Meds: "This Is My Reality"

    Carter will appear on a two-part episode of the syndicated show to discuss his personal life, addiction and his familial relationships.

    After earning headlines—and concern from fans—for a blistering Twitter rant in which he called out his brother, Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, for allegedly preventing him from seeing his nephew, singer Aaron Carter will appear on the syndicated talk show The Doctors to discuss his current state, including entering treatment for various mental health issues. 

    TMZ posted a clip of the two-part episode, which will air on September 12 and 13, in which Carter shows a bag of prescription medication, which he says is for “multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, acute anxiety,” and manic depression.

    “This is my reality,” the singer says in the clip.

    Rehab Stint

    The clip also features Carter commenting on recent and extensive dental work, which required him to take the opiate hydrocodone for pain management. Carter spent two months in rehab in 2017 to treat a dependency on painkillers.

    Carter, 31, who previously appeared on The Doctors in 2017 to discuss health issues and personal problems, including a DUI arrest, is seen in the clip hoisting a bag of prescription medication containers, which he says includes the anxiety drug Xanax, Seroquel—which is used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder—the anticonvulsant gabapentin and the antihistamine Hydroxyzine, both of which can be used to treat anxiety, and the antidepressant Trazodone.

    Carter also mentions “omazeprazole,” which may be omeprazole, a prescription medication for heartburn, which has been cited in some studies as also exacerbating depression and/or anxiety symptoms.

    Carter explains that the medications are used to treat his array of conditions, which include schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder and bipolar disorder, as well as manic depression and acute anxiety. “This is my reality,” Carter says to a silent studio audience in the clip. “Hi. I have nothing to hide.”

    The TMZ clip also shows Carter addressing his sobriety by noting that he has not taken any opiates, before correcting himself and stating that he took hydrocodone for dental work. “I got six crowns. Okay?” Carter says, before displaying the results of the dental procedures to the audience. According to TMZ and Pop Culture, Carter will take a drug test as part of his appearance on the show.

    His Mother’s Alcoholism Battle

    In addition to Carter’s appearance, The Doctors episode will also feature his mother, Elizabeth, who will discuss her own struggles with alcohol dependency. Aaron Carter describes his mother’s present condition as “the craziest, most toxic, unhealthy place in the world” in another clip.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Aaron Carter Unleashes Twitter Rant About Brother Nick, Addiction

    Aaron Carter Unleashes Twitter Rant About Brother Nick, Addiction

    The 31-year-old singer took to Twitter to air his grievances about his family over the holiday weekend.

    Pop singer Aaron Carter issued a blistering fusillade of tweets over the Labor Day weekend, aimed at targets ranging from his brother Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, to addiction and their family, before appearing to recant and blame the Twitterstorm on being “in a bad place emotionally.”

    The initial round of tweets—now deleted from his account—were centered around his elder brother and in particular, Nick Carter’s son, Odin, whom the younger Carter alleged he had never met. From there, Aaron took swings at his brother’s wife, whom he described as a “recovering addict,” his brother’s memoir Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It, and other members of his family. 

    Emotional Tweets

    When fans suggested that photos of Carter and his nephew existed, Carter tweeted that the meeting may have taken place when he was struggling with addiction. One day after the online outburst, Carter took to Twitter to note that he was “in a bad place emotionally” at the time of the tweets, and hoped to see his “whole family dynamic heal.”

    Carter’s furious Twitter flurry kicked off early on Sunday (Sept. 1), as he was flying from Baltimore, Maryland to Los Angeles, California. After posting that he was looking forward to spending time with friends, Carter fired off a tweet demanding that someone post a photo of him with his nephew, Odin, who is Nick Carter’s three-year-old son and featured regularly on his parents’ social media accounts.

    From there, Aaron lit into his brother, whom he claimed was like a stranger to him (“Nick and I don’t know each other”) and exclaimed that he loved “Oden [sic] even though I might never know you.”

    Estranged Brothers

    Nick Carter’s issues with drug and alcohol addiction, which he addressed in his book, were the focus of his brother’s next round of tweets. “Both Nick and [wife] Lauren [Kitt] are allegedly recovering addicts and should know better,” he wrote. He eventually took on his entire family, whom he described as “all [having] had their own shortcomings and shuns me?! My mother?! My Sister Bobbie Jean?!”

    After advising that Nick “keep his families’ shortcomings out of books,” Aaron added that he may have met Odin, but “didn’t have him when I was sober… I don’t remember.” He concluded the tweets by noting that he was advised to “keep things off of social media, but Nick can write a book knowing his family, {BESIDES ME) can NOT defend themselves?”

    Response from Carter’s followers expressed sympathy for his grievances, while others stated, “It’s sad people feel like their [sic] entitled to attack others so they feel good about themselves.”

    On Monday (Sept. 2), Aaron posted that his anger was motivated by emotions, as well as a visit to their mother, Jane, from whom Nick is estranged. “I’m upset that Nick didn’t even seem to care and I had to be the man of the family and take charge,” Aaron wrote about the visit, before adding, “I’d still like to see the whole family dynamic heal.”

    Aaron Carter spent two months in rehab in 2017 for dependency on painkillers, though he later told media sources in 2018 that he still smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, which drew alarmed responses from addiction and mental health experts.

    View the original article at thefix.com