Aaron Carter's twin sister Angel says his death was like 'an out-of-body experience' and that she kept his ashes at her home
- Aaron died last November at his Lancaster, California home via an overdose
- Twin sister of late singer said that she kept Aaron's ashes at her home between the cremation and the July 28 memorial service when they were interred
- She has been working with nonprofit On Our Sleeves, which is aimed at promoting mental health awareness for children
Aaron Carter's twin sister Angel Carter is opening up about how she processed the tragic death of her sibling last fall.
'To lose a twin, it's an out-of-body experience,' the 35-year-old Tampa, Florida native told People in a piece published Thursday. 'He's a part of me.'
She said her first instinct following her twin sibling's passing - he died in an accidental drug overdose after using Xanax and huffing, TMZ reported - was to protect his remains as best she could.
'When he died, I had this sense of, "I've got to get him in my house. I've got to bring him home and protect him,"' said Angel, who came into possession of his ashes earlier this year.
Angel said she kept Aaron's ashes at her home between the cremation and the July 28 memorial service in which they were interred.
![The latest: Aaron Carter's twin sister Angel Carter, 35, is opening up about how she processed the tragic death of her sibling last fall, saying that, 'To lose a twin, it's an out-of-body experience'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/11/05/74198507-12395983-image-a-70_1691729847533.jpg)
![Aaron Carter, pictured in 2017, died last November as result of a drug overdose](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/11/05/74198413-12395983-image-m-69_1691729838824.jpg)
The latest: Aaron Carter's twin sister Angel Carter, 35, is opening up about how she processed the tragic death of her sibling last fall, saying that, 'To lose a twin, it's an out-of-body experience.' Pictured this past January
'For a few months after he died, it was my last way to protect him,' she told the outlet. 'I don't want anybody to do anything weird with him. Now, I'm burying him ... at Forest Lawn.
'I can't trust that anybody else is not going to exploit him. So at that time, that was my last act of love.'
Angel - who also lost her sister Leslie at 25 in 2012 via a drug overdose - said that she didn't want the loss of her siblings to come 'in vain,' and has been putting her time and effort toward the nonprofit On Our Sleeves, which is aimed at promoting mental health awareness for children.
She said that she wanted to share her siblings' respective journeys 'as an example of what can happen' as result of drug addiction, as 'so many families are affected by this.'
Angel said 'it's turned into something on a bigger scale where it's like, "OK, we've got to get his story out there" ... we've got to not allow my brother and sister to die in vain.'
Angel said that Aaron's downfall was exacerbated by the death of their father Robert Carter at 65 in May of 2017 from a heart attack. In Aaron's rehab after his father's death, he was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia.
'I always felt like that was the beginning of the end,' she told the outlet. 'Aaron was already in a bad place, but it was like a domino effect.'
Angel has been at odds with her mother Jane, who in March put out a grisly set of pictures of Aaron's death scene - prior to the publication of autopsy results - and insisted he was the victim of a crime rather than an overdose.
![Emotional: Angel said her first instinct following her twin sibling's passing - he died in an accidental drug overdose after using Xanax and huffing, TMZ reported - was to protect his remains as best she could. Pictured together in 2014 in LA](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/11/06/74198583-12395983-image-a-71_1691732008183.jpg)
Emotional: Angel said her first instinct following her twin sibling's passing - he died in an accidental drug overdose after using Xanax and huffing, TMZ reported - was to protect his remains as best she could. Pictured together in 2014 in LA
![Explanation: Angel kept Aaron's ashes at her home between the cremation and the July 28 memorial service when they were interred](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/11/06/74198581-12395983-image-a-72_1691732054607.jpg)
Explanation: Angel kept Aaron's ashes at her home between the cremation and the July 28 memorial service when they were interred
![The way they were: Aaron Carter's long struggle with addiction has been remembered by his heartbroken twin sister Angel](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/09/16/74126861-12389327-The_way_they_were_Aaron_Carter_s_long_struggle_with_addiction_ha-a-21_1691596728021.jpg)
The way they were: Aaron Carter's long struggle with addiction has been remembered by his heartbroken twin sister Angel
![Sad: At the beginning of last November, Aaron's housekeeper found him dead at home aged 34 of what the coroner ruled was an accidental overdose](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/09/15/69976063-12389327-Carter_s_autopsy_results_showed_he_had_consumed_alprazolam_which-a-2_1691591145618.jpg)
Sad: At the beginning of last November, Aaron's housekeeper found him dead at home aged 34 of what the coroner ruled was an accidental overdose
![Throwback: She looked back on Aaron's years of drug problems, which followed a childhood 'filled with emotional abuse, dysfunction and addiction'; he is pictured in 2005 aged 17](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/09/16/74126877-12389327-Throwback_She_looked_back_on_Aaron_s_years_of_drug_problems_whic-a-3_1691593701441.jpg)
Throwback: She looked back on Aaron's years of drug problems, which followed a childhood 'filled with emotional abuse, dysfunction and addiction'; he is pictured in 2005 aged 17
She told People she has not talked to Jane since the photos went out, a move she described as 'a true invasion of privacy and something that Aaron would’ve never wanted the public to see.
Angel said that 'Aaron dying was the worst possible outcome for all of us,' adding, 'My brother deserves to be here.'
She devastatingly looked back on Aaron's years of drug problems, which followed a childhood 'filled with emotional abuse, dysfunction and addiction.'
Aaron, who left behind one-year-old son Prince with his fiancée Melanie Martin, battled substance abuse, which led to racking up multiple arrests and rehab stints.
Angel said she used to cling to hope that he would recover and had to restrain herself from crying as she remembered: 'I just kept waiting for him to snap out of it. But he never did.
'He wanted so badly to be happy. He really fought to the end, but he just had too many problems to be fixed. He’d become this person who we no longer recognized. I don’t even think he recognized himself,' said Angel.
She has now thrown herself into work with On Our Sleeves so that she can disrupt the 'generational dysfunction.'
'It’s much easier to raise a strong child than to fix a broken adult,' said Angel, who shares her daughter Harper, four, with her husband Corey Conrad.
'Something positive has to come from all this. I refuse to allow Aaron to have died in vain. I want Aaron’s legacy to be more than those final years of his life.'
Aaron's autopsy results showed he had consumed alprazolam, which is a generic form of Xanax, and inhaled compressed difluoroethane, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, TMZ reported.
He inhaled compressed difluoroethane, a propellant used in cans of compressed air, a practice commonly known as 'huffing.'
Aaron was 'incapacitated while in the bathtub due to the effects' of the substances, according to officials.
The body was found in his home November 5, 2022. Authorities said in the report that the entertainer, under the influence of the substances, 'slipped under the water' and drowned.'
![Tragedy: Aaron plunged even further into his addictions after his sister Leslie died in 2012 of a prescription drug overdose at the age of just 25; the pair are pictured in 2000](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/09/16/74126855-12389327-Tragedy_Aaron_plunged_even_further_into_his_addictions_after_his-a-22_1691596728153.jpg)
Tragedy: Aaron plunged even further into his addictions after his sister Leslie died in 2012 of a prescription drug overdose at the age of just 25; the pair are pictured in 2000
![Bereaved: The family tragedies came thick and fast for Aaron, who also lost his father Robert Carter to an apparent heart attack in 2017; the pair are pictured in 2001](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/09/15/74126837-12389327-image-a-7_1691591326576.jpg)
Bereaved: The family tragedies came thick and fast for Aaron, who also lost his father Robert Carter to an apparent heart attack in 2017; the pair are pictured in 2001
Coroner's officials in January ruled out drowning as his primary cause of death, TMZ reported, as medical examiners did not detect any water in his lungs.
Martin told the outlet that the release of the autopsy did not bring closure about for her.
'It claims death is by drowning but also adds he was wearing a t-shirt and necklace in the bathtub which doesn't make sense, why would he be in a bathtub with clothes on?' Martin said.
She continued: 'I am still in shock and still miss Aaron every day. I don’t understand the chain of events and this report only has us asking more questions.'
Martin previously told the outlet that she felt that the singer had been felled by his drug abuse.
She said she had turned into authorities his phone, which included a text message exchange in which Carter said that he owed an unnamed person $800 for an undisclosed substance.
In the alleged exchange, according to Melanie, the singer told the other party he was conversing with that he no longer wanted the substance.
The other party demanded the $800 in the text, Melanie said, at which point Aaron asked if he was being threatened, which was the last communication in the exchange.
The late singer's mother Jane Carter shared images of the bathtub and home he died in in a bid to bring more attention to the probe of his passing.
Jane said she didn't believe that her son's death was the result of a drug overdose, but rather foul play, in sharing the images of the home taken the day of her son's death.
Another image showed a towel and a hooded sweatshirt on the floor of the bathroom Aaron was found in, and a toilet in the bathroom.
Jane said that Aaron's family and friends had fully supported her in posting the images from the painful day, in an effort to garner further attention on the case from law enforcement.
She said that there 'should have been at least an investigation' into the premature death, and that 'because of [her] son's mental illness and prescription drug issues [the police] just wanted it to be something easy that they didn't have the time or inclination to address.'
Jane added: 'We want justice. We want answers. There are people who must be held accountable.'
Speaking with TMZ Live in March, Jane Carter said that her late son was harassed online by 'number of people' who she felt could be suspects in his death. She added that law enforcement did not see Aaron in person when they conducted a welfare check at his domicile.
Jane Carter said that while her son battled drug addiction, she didn't suspect him to be self-harming. 'He was an addict, but I don't think he wanted to die,' Jane said. 'I don't think he would have been doing that much of that aerosol.'
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