Aaron Charles Carter, a rapper, singer, and actor from the United States, was born on December 7, 1987, and died on November 5, 2022. In the early years of the new century, his four studio albums helped him establish himself as a household figure among teenage and teen audiences. In the late 1990s, he rose to prominence as a pop and hip-hop singer.
Carter’s self-titled debut album, released when he was nine years old, went on to sell one million copies worldwide. Carter made his stage debut when he was seven years old. Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) (2000), his second album, sold three million copies in the United States. Carter debuted on Nickelodeon shortly after the album’s release and toured with the Backstreet Boys.
What was Aaron Carter struggling with? Substance abuse and mental health explained
Carter’s subsequent years were marked by failures in his career, controversy, money problems (he filed for bankruptcy in 2013), drug misuse, and deteriorating mental health: in 2019, he disclosed that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar illness.
He made numerous attempts to reinvent himself throughout the decade of the 2010s, returning to touring in addition to roles in off-Broadway musicals, appearances on reality contests like Dancing with the Stars, and his own series House of Carters.
In September 2017, he had a well-publicized appearance on The Doctors, a US talk program, during which he tested positive for opiates and benzodiazepines. He checked himself into drug addiction therapy later that year.
