Music star Aaron Carter’s ‘unhinged’ final days revealed in chilling new documentary

A chilling new documentary has revealed the shocking true extent of Aaron Carter’s downward spiral in the weeks before his death.

It’s no secret Aaron Carter struggled with substance abuse and mental health issues in the years leading up to his tragic death in 2022.

Now, a new documentary, titled “The Carters” exposes intimate, never-before-shared details behind the famous family’s history of loss, trauma and heartbreak.

In the two-part documentary premiering April 15 on Paramount+, Aaron’s twin sister, Angel Carter Conrad — as well as close friends and family members — open up about the experiences that led to Aaron’s demise, including a terrifying moment in which an “unhinged” Aaron drove to his brother Nick Carter’s house with a gun in his car.

“I could tell that he was already taking drugs again,” Angel said in the documentary. “He was real manic, all over the place and all the same bad habits were happening again.”

Aaron Carter died aged 34. Picture: Supplied.

Angel recalled a phone conversation she had with Aaron, in which he told her he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

During that conversation, said Angel, Aaron said he often had thoughts of “killing babies” and Nick’s wife, Lauren Kitt Carter.

“I was just processing and taking it all in,” Angel said. “I was so stunned by the conversation and so taken back and was processing everything that was happening.”

Angel made the conscious decision to not tell her Backstreet Boys brother for fear that Nick would take action and, in turn, ruin Aaron’s career.

“I didn’t want to hurt [Aaron],” Angel confessed. However, weeks later, Aaron started to acquire multiple guns, including shotguns, AK-47s and more, and showcase them on social media.

“He was so clearly in a very, very dark place and making threats to Angel, to Nick, to me,” Angel’s husband, Corey Conrad, said in the documentary. “Obviously he’s not in his right mind.”

Angel admitted she was “so scared” of what her brother would do, so she eventually told Nick.

In September 2019, Angel and Nick filed a restraining order against their brother.

“After careful consideration, my sister Angel and I regret that we were required to seek a restraining order against our brother Aaron today,” Nick announced on X (formerly Twitter) at the time.

Carter’s mum shared chilling pictures after he died. Picture: Supplied.

“In light of Aaron’s increasingly alarming behaviour and his recent confession that he harbours thoughts and intentions of killing my pregnant wife and unborn child, we were left with no choice but to take every measure possible to protect ourselves and our family.”

“We love our brother and truly hope he gets the proper treatment he needs before any harm comes to himself or anyone else,” the statement concluded.

The family felt that “there was no other option.”

“He was not in control of himself at the time,” Corey said.

Despite their efforts, the restraining orders made Aaron become “even more violent,” Corey revealed.

“He drove to [Las] Vegas with a gun in his car, live-streaming to where we knew that he was there driving to Nick’s community,” he recalled.

Aaron’s assistant at the time had the late star’s location via Find My Phone and was giving the family live updates on where Aaron was.

“Instead of going to Kentucky [where he was scheduled to perform], he’s going toward [Las] Vegas,” Aaron’s longtime manager and Carter family friend, Lori Knight, said. “We get a ping that he’s getting off the exit that Nick’s home is on and then the next ping we get is at some restaurant across the street from the entrance to Nick’s gated community.”

Carter’s chaotic final weeks alive have been revealed. Picture: Instagram.

“We literally had this moment, where like, ‘Oh my God, he’s going to kill Nick or Lauren, He’s going to kill somebody. Then, he’s going to kill himself,’” Knight added.

“They had helicopters, they had SWAT. We did not know what he was going to do, what he was going to try,” Corey added.

“It was such a scary time to listen to their voices, to Lauren and Nick,” Knight recalled. “You could hear the terror that they felt in those moments. There was complete chaos going on in the home.”

“[Aaron] sat in the parking lot for 45 minutes and then left, and we tracked him to Kentucky,” she said.

Angel said the last time she saw her twin brother was in the courtroom when the guns were legally taken away. “He was really angry. He yelled to me, ‘You’re dead to me.’ It was horrible. I didn’t even recognise him. He was too far gone at that point,” she said.

Aaron died on Nov. 5, 2022. He drowned in his bathtub, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. The “effects of difluoroethane (aerosol propellant found in spray cans) and alprazolam (commonly known as Xanax)” were listed as contributing factors in his death.

The manner of death was ruled an “accident,” according to the coroner.

This story originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission.

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