Harassment on social networks “was like a nightmare” for Aaron Carter, the American singer, actor and songwriter who died in 2022, at the age of 34. This was recognized by the one who was his managerTaylor Helgeson, in an interview for Page Six in which he claimed that this “could have been the reason for the deep depression” that the younger brother of Nick Carter, singer of the Backstreet Boys, faced in the last stage of his life, before being found drowned “accidentally.” ” in his bathtub after inhaling a flammable gas, his autopsy revealed. The new documentary fallen idols (which can be seen on Max) delves into the lives of the Carter brothers, and reveals that Aaron was convinced that his family was involved in the cyber attacks against them. What’s more, he even hired a private investigator to clarify it. He “He told me that he had been a victim of harassment. He wanted help to make it stop,” Jennifer Huffman, the private detective in question, acknowledges in the documentary.
Aaron Carter faced a wave of online harassment that intensified especially when he decided to publicly support the women who had accused his brother Nick of abusing them. The Investigation Discovery channel docuseries presents three women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by the singer of the Backstreet Boys, the youngest of that group that marked a generation: the singer Melissa Schuman, the friend of his sister Ashley Repp, and Shannon Shay Ruth, who filed a sexual assault lawsuit against him in December 2022. All of them speak again in the documentary, which also warns that Nick Carter “denied the accusations and questions the credibility of his accusers,” but that he refused to be interviewed. Repp recounts how Aaron took her side after telling her that she was raped by Nick in front of his friends. “Aaron realized something was wrong with me. He was very kind. “He did not have a great relationship with his brother at that time because from what he said he knew of other similar situations with his brother and younger girls.” Schuman, for her part, claims that in 2019 Aaron also approached her to show her support: “He told me that he believed me, and that ‘that’s my brother.’”
The women filed three separate complaints from December 2022 to August 2023. Carter filed two countersuits in 2023 and 2024, the first against Henschel and Ruth and the second against Repp. “These are exactly the same outrageous claims that led us to sue this band of conspirators,” Nick’s lawyer told CNN about the statements in the new documentary in a statement. “These cases are making their way through the legal system now and, based on both the initial court rulings and the overwhelming evidence, we firmly believe that we will prevail and hold them accountable for spreading these falsehoods,” he adds.
Aaron made a public outcry of support for Nick’s alleged victims, leading to an intense dispute between the two. Even then he assumed that his family was behind the cyber attacks. “Nick is clearly doing it… It only started when I became a voice for rape victims,” he said in a livestream on his Instagram profile. According to the detective hired by the rapper, many of the attacks came from a youtuber named Ganval, who called himself “Aaron’s archenemy.” Huffman then shows footage of Ganval and actress Lauren Kitt Carter, Nick’s wife since 2014, interacting on social media. “Why would his sister-in-law be connecting with an individual who spends his days trying to troll and harass Aaron?” she asks.
“Unfortunately, there were more. “There is actual live footage of Ganval when she received a donation made by Lauren Kitt Carter,” she notes. Still, she confesses: “But at no point did I see any indication that Nick Carter harassed Aaron.”
The four episodes of the docuseries also offer information about the entire Carter family, made up of parents Robert and Jane and their children Nick, Leslie, Angel, Bobbie Jean and Aaron. A family marked by a series of tragedies: Leslie died at age 25 from a drug overdose in 2012; In 2022, Aaron drowned in the bathtub when he was 34 years old; and Bobbie Jean died of a drug overdose at age 41, in 2023. fallen idols explores the dysfunctional family dynamics that existed between them. For example, Jen, a family friend, claims that her mother constantly confronted Nick and Aaron by comparing her success. “Jane was in Aaron’s ear all the time,” she says. When Leslie died of an overdose in 2012, according to the Carter brothers’ cousin, John Spaulding, Jane blamed Nick: “he told her that he should have been there for her. “She had the money, why didn’t she do something?” Nick did not attend the funeral and there, too, according to Jen, his mother took the opportunity to confront the brothers. “She told Aaron that Nick didn’t love him,” she says.
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