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Aaron Carter Dead astatine 34: New Kids connected the Block & More Stars React
Hilary Duff is mourning the decease of her ex-boyfriend, Aaron Carter, who she dated erstwhile some were teen stars.
The "I Want Candy" singer, member of Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter, was found dormant astatine 34 successful his location successful Lancaster, Calif. Nov. 5. The origin of the erstwhile kid star's death has not been revealed.
"For Aaron- I'm profoundly atrocious that beingness was truthful hard for you and that you had to conflict in-front of the full world," Hilary, 35, wrote connected Instagram aboriginal that day. "You had a charm that was perfectly effervescent...boy did my teenage aforesaid emotion you deeply. Sending emotion to your household astatine this time. Rest easy."
Aaron and Hilary dated connected and disconnected for astir 3 years, starting successful 2000 erstwhile some were 13. In the second year, helium guest-starred connected her Disney Channel series, Lizzie McGuire. The plot: Lizzie and her pals acceptable disconnected connected a ngo to conscionable the singer, who is shooting his Christmas euphony video successful their town, and she and Aaron end up kissing nether a portion of mistletoe arsenic his ballad "Girl You Shine" plays.
Aaron and Hilary divided amid rumors that helium had cheated connected her with then-fellow Disney star Lindsay Lohan. "I started dating Hilary connected my 13th birthday," Carter recalled connected The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch successful 2005. "I was dating her for similar a twelvemonth and a half, and past I conscionable got a small bored, truthful I went and started getting to cognize Lindsay, dating Lindsay. Then I didn't privation to bash that anymore, truthful I got backmost with Hilary."
According to People, Aaron and the Mean Girls actress dated betwixt January 2002 and April 2003. That year, Lindsay told the magazine, "Aaron and I were friends. That's my past. It was, like, a fewer months ago, you know. He's a chill guy. We're friends. Hilary is simply a cute girl. I privation her the best."
Aaron told Donny Deutch that Hilary "really got her bosom breached from maine and I'm atrocious for that." And according to the singer, the histrion was the 1 to yet propulsion the plug connected their romance. Reflecting connected his relationship history on the No Jumper podcast connected Nov. 2, his last interrogation earlier his death, helium said, "The lone idiosyncratic who broke up with maine was Hilary."
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Aaron appeared to harbor feelings for Hilary agelong aft their split. In March 2014, 2 months after the How I Met Your Father star announced her breakup from archetypal husband Mike Comrie, Aaron tweeted a photograph of her and wrote, "Don't beryllium that anserine douche that loses the emotion of your beingness forever.. Like me..."
He added, "I'll walk the rest of my life trying to amended myself to get backmost to her. I don't attraction what ANY of you think."
The pursuing October, Hilary was asked on Watch What Happens Live astir Aaron "declaring his love" for her. "It's...ugh! I don't know," she responded. "I don't cognize what to accidental astir it! It was truthful galore years ago. I virtually haven't seen him in...so, it's uncomfortable."
Recalling their teen romance, Hilary added that Aaron "was precise sweet...when I was 13."
In December 2014, Aaron shared connected Instagram a photograph of himself watching himself and Hilary on his occurrence of Lizzie McGuire. "Merry Christmas Lizzie McGuire. #IWantCandy #AaronCarter #Flashback," he wrote successful his post, adding, "I ne'er really watched this before."
In 2015, Hilary was asked again astir her thoughts connected her ex's societal media posts astir her. "Him reaching retired done societal media? It's ridiculous!" she told Cosmopolitan. "But past radical bash it each the time."
