Aaron Carter’s cause of death revealed 5 months after his passing
Posted April 19, 2023 by: Admin
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Aaron Carter, who passed away at the age of 34. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has ruled his death an accident, attributing it to drowning due to the effects of difluoroethane and Alprazolam, a generic form of the prescription Xanax that is commonly used to treat anxiety. According to Yahoo Entertainment, difluoroethane is a compressed gas, and Carter had been open about his addiction to huffing or “dusting.”
Carter was found dead in the bathtub of his Lancaster, Calif. home on Nov. 5. The full autopsy report obtained by TMZ states that Carter was “incapacitated while in the bathtub due to the effects” of the drugs, and he slipped under the water and accidentally drowned. However, some of the musician’s loved ones have expressed doubts about this finding.
Melanie Martin, Carter’s ex-fiancée and mother of his son Prince, 1, has said that the autopsy findings “are not closure” and added that the report only raises more questions. She pointed out that Carter was found wearing a T-shirt and necklace in the bathtub, which doesn’t make sense, as one wouldn’t normally bathe with clothes on. Martin is still grieving and misses Aaron every day.
In March, Carter’s mother, Jane, shared graphic photos from the scene of his death and expressed doubts about how he passed away. She claimed that the coroner had written it off as an accidental drug overdose and had not investigated it as a possible crime scene due to his addiction past.
Police reportedly found evidence of compressed air canisters and medications in Carter’s primary bedroom and bathroom after his death. Carter, the younger brother of Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter, had opened up about his addiction struggles with huffing years ago.
“It’s something that I’ve kept secret from the whole world until now,” he said on a 2019 episode of The Doctors. “I was huffing because I was really f***ing stupid and sad, but this is really no excuse, really. I was huffing because I’m a drug addict.”
Carter had gone to rehab multiple times and was working to get sober for his son. In September, he voluntarily sought treatment to stop smoking weed after losing custody of his child. His ex-fiancée, Melanie Martin, often posts tributes to him on social media.
