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    Is There Bad Blood Between Aaron Carter and Nick Carter?

    By Meagan Morris | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Wed, Feb 8, 2012 9:55 AM PST
    Nick Carter

    It certainly seems strange: Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter opted to play a concert in Atlantic City rather than attend the funeral of his sister, Leslie Carter. The blonde singer, 32, released a statement thanking everyone for their support and that he was dealing with his 25-year-old sister's death in his own way.

    "I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic," He said in a statement. So, what's going on? Sources close to the singer told TMZ that he thinks his family didn't want him to know about the funeral.

    However, his younger brother, Aaron Carter, made some cryptic tweets that suggest more to the story.

    "My "Family" Appreciates your love and prayers, My Father (Bob Carter) My mother (Jane) (Angel) (Bobbie Jean) & her husband (Mike Ashton)," Aaron, 24, tweeted on Monday. "The truth will reveal itself. I Love you Leslie soo very very very very very much!! virtually no words. You will always be my best friend."

    Sister Bobby Carter was more blunt about it. "That's not true," she told TMZ.

    Leslie passed away on Jan. 31 from an alleged overdose of prescription medication, according to police reports. She was reportedly suffering from mental illness and was staying with her father and stepmother to get well.

    The rift in the family comes as a surprise - both Nick and Aaron acted like their family relationship was on the up-and-up after years of fighting between siblings and their parents. The brothers even fought on their reality show, "House of Carters," over Nick's ex-girlfriend, Paris Hilton.

    A quick scan of the web finds that Nick's girlfriend, Lauren Kitt, is the suspected cause of Carter family strife. Eagle-eyed fans have noticed that Aaron and sister Angel Carter don't follow Kitt on Twitter.

    Could something so trivial be the reason why Nick didn't go to his beloved sister's funeral? It's all speculation, but it sounds like he's willing to protect his longtime girlfriend from the hate of others.

    "If you don't have anything nice to say then don't feel the need to say anything at all. I am happy, healthy and in love..." he tweeted on Jan. 30, the day before his sister's death.

    It just goes to show that every family - even famous ones - have serious problems

    Some more serious than others, obviously.

    Why do you think Nick Carter skipped his sister's funeral?

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    13 comments

    • Debra
      Debra  •  Little Rock, Arkansas  •  3 months ago
      Nick had over 700 people at the concert I attended. His family is highly dysfunctional and always has been. Don't be too quick to judge Nick. They have leeched financially and emotionally from him for decades, and I suspect his therapist has encouraged him to break the feeling of being responsible for his family's finances, health and happiness for HIS own sanity and happiness..........................
      That's all understandable and all... but when you become famous and rich, your family should be number one. No one know how the family actualy leeched off Nick but if it's anything like a normal family it's messed up how he can leave them to suffer and if it's the other way... It's a good thing he broke ties.
    • wLouiseOlivia
      wLouiseOlivia  •  3 months ago
      Actually, Aaron IS following her on twitter, and she follows him
    • Kate Stewart
      Kate Stewart  •  Mechanicsville, Virginia  •  3 months ago
      Nick had over 700 people at the concert I attended. His family is highly dysfunctional and always has been. Don't be too quick to judge Nick. They have leeched financially and emotionally from him for decades, and I suspect his therapist has encouraged him to break the feeling of being responsible for his family's finances, health and happiness for HIS own sanity and happiness.
    • Julilly
      Julilly  •  3 months ago
      Twitter as a source? Do you fact check your stories on Wikipedia, too? Articles like this and pretend journalists (aka "Yahoo Contributors") are the reason that people are losing faith in the media and as a journalist I'm ashamed to be associated with this kind of reporting.
    • E.
      E.  •  3 months ago
      Sometimes people don't want to go to funerals. The funeral isn't for the dead, it's for the living. Maybe it was too hard for him, the girl was only 25. Until you've had a loss like this, don't judge.
    • Jennifer
      Jennifer  •  3 months ago
      Are you seriously calling yourself a jounalist? Cuz you really should check your facts before you post total CRAP online. Aaron and Lauren DO follow each other on Twitter. And since when does not following someone on Twitter constitute NOT liking someone??

      Anyone who's a Nick fan knows that family is HIGHLY dysfunctional. Aaron is constantly taking digs at Nick on Twitter *pssst! that's a FACT..check it out* And to be dragging poor Lauren into this now? That girl has done NOTHING but show Nick unconditional love their whole relationship...something his family NEVER has. Their love comes with a price tag. Nick is in the best place of his life right now (other than loosing his sister) and I figure its cuz he's distanced himself from his family..and cuz of Lauren. If, in fact, he did know about the funeral, I don't blame him for not wanting to be part of the sure to ensue drama.

      And, for the person who said more people were at her funeral than his shows..FYI...I've been to 6 of his shows..every one was close if not sold out..PACKED houses with over 110+ VIPS for each show. Not bad for a hasbeen uh?

      This man is going through enough already...I wish the press would just leave him alone.
      • Kimberly
        Kimberly 3 months ago
        I loved your reply....I agree with you 1000000%
    • Toni
      Toni  •  Hackettstown, New Jersey  •  3 months ago
      it is sad that the #$%$ is going down like that. And i been to nicks feb 2nd show and i can tell you this he is hurting and wanted to be there to say good by to his sister and i do not believe for a second that Lauren was the reason for nick not being there i truly believe nick was not told.. Aaron needs to stop acting like a baby for what ever reason and not make everyone think that everything that happens in there family is Nicks fault. I hope nick is happy and stays healthy and know ur sister knows you love her and i loved watching how u showed ur respects to her at ur show it was beautiful!
    • sunshine
      sunshine  •  3 months ago
      I think Nick would have cancelled a concert if he knew what day the funeral was.
    • Stephanie
      Stephanie  •  Athens, Ohio  •  3 months ago
      Funny you're making Nick and Lauren seem like the bad guys when Aaron is the one airing #$%$ over the effing internet. That's certainly no way to treat the ONLY reason you're famous Aaron. SMH. I'm sure their problems go deeper than a girlfriend, are you seriously calling yourself a journalist?
    • Pearl
      Pearl  •  Richardson, Texas  •  3 months ago
      He didn't go because Lauren wasn't invited, plain and simple.
      • Emma
        Emma 3 months ago
        I do hope you're not serious with this comment, Pearl. I don't know Nick or Lauren, but I'd bet that she was the most supportive to him through all of this.
      • Pearl
        Pearl 3 months ago
        I don't think she would be anything but supportive of anything he does. Who would support her if she didn't support him? I don't know Nick or Lauren either. Just another #$%$ that cares about someone I don't know. I never even knew Nick had a niece so obviously they weren't close. I just find it sad that his family couldn't work something out and that he wasn't able to man up enough to go to a funeral for someone that loved and looked up to him so much. I've been to some funerals in my time and it is never fun seeing someone you love dead. I just feel like some of it has to be guilt and some of it has to be due to the fact that he seems to be a master of hiding his true emotions and maybe he didn't want to let those show. Why do you care what i think anyhow?
      • Emma
        Emma 3 months ago
        First of all, I don't really care what you think, Pearl. I was simply responding to you on a public comment board. Second, the only reason I care at all about this matter is because I have been following BSB for almost their whole career and I feel it's an injustice to Nick to have his reasons for not going to his sister's funeral questioned by people who don't know the whole story...including his fans....and I hate that he has to deal with all this crap in addition to his feelings about her death. When Howie's sister died, he did attend her funeral, but he was back on stage only a few hours later. Some people gave him grief for that and some were supportive. In all honesty, I wish that celebrities could just have their right to privacy respected like most of the rest of us, but with all this social networking out there, I realize it's not going to happen.
    • Scott
      Scott  •  Greenville, South Carolina  •  3 months ago
      I bet there were more people at the funeral than at Nick's concert...
      • Stephanie
        Stephanie 3 months ago
        actually his shows are all sold out :) but he's actually doing something with his life unlike you.
      • Ivana
        Ivana 3 months ago
        Hey kow live nick alone,stop posting crap that is not true.And for your informan lauren has noting do do with nick famly problom.That stert even before she come along.So stop blaming here for It.Your shuold blam hi mothere she that one to blam for all this #$%$
    • Kelly Thistleton-boyce
      Kelly Thistleton-boyce  •  Brighton, United Kingdom  •  3 months ago
      its all speculation has no one stopped to think about how emotionally draining it is to loose a loved one my sister died at 16 from an over dose its devastating! i had my baby on one side of the hospital whilst unknowns to me she was dieing on the other side of the hospital i ended up with really bad depression and i was over protective of my baby and paranoid hed be taken from me one way or another, its awful perhaps the thought of seeing his baby sister's passing so final was just something he couldn't cope with who knows its all thoughts only nick knows why he missed it. sending love to the carter family and spaulding family too xxx
    • Ryan
      Ryan  •  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  •  3 months ago
      Nick is a big Selfish, that is why he didn't attend, he is the older brother and he should the one to manage and help the family his mother, father, sisters & brothers in such us sad and painful time, instead he choose to dance and sing for a group of female fans screaming his name as usual, I would Excuse him if he was very sick, or he's a friend of the family but not the blood brother of the late. RIP Leslie, and nick what's goes around comes back around, remember that.
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