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“I Want Candy” singer. Aaron Carter sadly passed away on Nov. 5, and about two weeks later his manager, Taylor Helgeson, revealed about the late star’s health before his death. “He looked thin. He was very tired,” said the manager Page Six on Nov. 17. “She looked like she needed to do nothing but work. She looked like she needed to take care of him.”
Taylor revealed that even though she had only been working with Aaron for eight months, she was already planning to make a new song together. Aaron and his manager met again at the recording studio the week he died to work on the new project, but that’s when Taylor knew something was up. “He didn’t look good,” she said before adding, “Now, having said that, I think it’s very important to have this story.”
Taylor also explained that “mentally” the actress seems to be doing well and that her manager’s concern was about her health. “He didn’t look good physically… [but] mentally, he was the happiest I’d seen him in months. “He was very intelligent and he knew what people wanted to see from him,” the businessman told the newspaper.
Additionally, the site reported that Taylor does not believe that the “Aaron’s Party” singer is considering ending her life until her tragic death. “He was a guy with a lot of plans,” she said. “We had a lot of things going on and, you know, Aaron was a guy who was proud of himself. That’s not his style.” Interestingly, Taylor told the crowd that she and Aaron didn’t see eye-to-eye on other things. [what] it would be … three months in Utah just detoxing and building new habits in your body,” Taylor said. “[Aaron] he was saying, ‘I will get my son back and I will do this,’ and I said, ‘If you do this, I will give you back your son,’ it was a conflict.”
Aaron found her “unresponsive” in her bathroom with her friend Melanie Martin at his home in Lancaster, California. At this time, no official cause of death has been revealed, however, the coroner’s report was released on Nov. 7, where the medical examiner asked for more time to investigate the death. The beloved singer has openly dealt with drug abuse issues and has also spoken out US Sun that he checked himself into an outpatient program in September. “I haven’t come back or anything like that, it’s very difficult right now for me. [and] I want my son back,” said Aaron at the time.
The late actor and singer was a proud father to his 11-month-old son Prince Lyric Carter, which he received from his girlfriend last November. Besides being a father and a singer, Aaron was the brother of seven siblings, including the singer of the Backstreet Boys. Nick Carter, 42. In the early days of his career, Aaron was a very popular teenager who took home the Teen Choice Award in 2001 for Choice Male Artist. Some of his hits include “Crush On You” and “I’m All About You.”
