Angel Carter Conrad, the late Aaron Carter’s twin sister, shared details about their complicated relationship.
“It makes me sad to know that the last time I saw him was in 2019 in a courtroom,” Angel, 37, told People in a new interview. "It was the last time I ever saw Aaron.”
Angel opened up to the magazine ahead of the release of a new documentary, The Carters: Hurts to Love You, where she recalled her relationship with Aaron, and their older siblings Leslie and Bobbie Jean (who died in 2012 and 2023, respectively. Both of their deaths were from accidental drug overdoses).
Following that courtroom moment, Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter, released a statement in 2019 announcing he and Angel were seeking restraining orders against Aaron “due to his “increasingly alarming behavior and his recent confession that he harbors 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,” said Nick’s statement at the time.
Angel says she never saw Aaron in person again following the court but had spoken prior to his death. After the restraining orders, Angel and Aaron reconnected later through long phone conversations.
Although they were beginning to “open the door” to rebuilding their relationship, Angel noted, “I talked to him three days before he passed away.”
“[Aaron] was on Instagram Live and huffing duster cans and passing out and all these things. So I just called him, and I was like, 'What are you doing?' And he tried to deny it,” Angel recalled.
“And I said, 'Aaron, I saw you on Live. I saw it happen. Live, you doing this.' And then he blamed me, and he said, 'Well, you're the reason why I'd use drugs.' And I said, 'Aaron, that's not really fair. You can't, don't blame me for this.'”
"I was angry, honestly," she admitted. "I was angry that he had told me that I was the reason why he was doing drugs and got off the phone. And that was the last time I talked to him."
Their conversation ended with the hope of seeing each other again, face-to-face, with a therapist present. Tragically, that meeting never happened.
Aaron was found dead in his bathtub on Nov. 5, 2022. According to the coroner’s report, the singer drowned after inhaling difluoroethane and taking alprazolam, the generic form of Xanax.
Angel, who has a 6-year-old daughter, Harper, with husband Corey Conrad, now works with the Ohio-based Kids Mental Health Foundation in hopes of helping parents start a dialogue with their children.
“We are just so happy to be involved, and to share my story and to be able to inspire others,” she said.
The Carters: Hurts to Love You, directed by Soleil Moon Frye, premieres April 15 on Paramount+.
Angel Carter Conrad, the late Aaron Carter’s twin sister, shared details about their complicated relationship. "It makes me sad to know that the last time I saw him was in 2019 in a courtroom," Angel, 37, told People in a new interview. "It was the last time I ever saw Aaron."
Angel opened up to the magazine ahead of the release of a new documentary, The Carters: Hurts to Love You, where she recalled her relationship with Aaron, and their older siblings Leslie and Bobbie Jean.