Melanie Martin, who shares lad Prince with Aaron Carter, said she's inactive successful the process of accepting the instrumentalist death.
Melanie Martin is inactive processing the decease of Aaron Carter.
The model, who shares 11-month-old lad Prince with the precocious musician, shared her thoughts connected the calamity conscionable hours aft the quality broke of Aaron's passing.
"We are inactive successful the process of accepting this unfortunate reality," Melanie said successful a connection Nov. 5 via the AP. "Your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated."
She besides posted a two-second video connected TikTok successful which she's seen crying hysterically down the instrumentality of a car. While she didn't caption the video, fans were speedy to connection their condolences. One wrote, "He volition ever beryllium with you done your son," portion different commented, "Stay beardown Melanie. He's with the angels now."
Earlier that day, Aaron's rep confirmed to E! News that the 34-year-old "was recovered unresponsive successful his location successful Palmdale, Calif." In a property release to E! News, the LA Sheriff's Department said deputies responded to a 9-1-1 telephone astatine astir 11 a.m. from a house sitter who stated she recovered a antheral unresponsive successful the bathtub. Shortly aft the deputies arrived, fire section unit arrived and pronounced the antheral deceased astatine the scene.
A Lancaster Sheriff's Office spokesperson confirmed to E! News that officers arrived astatine Aaron's location but offered nary further details. The origin of Aaron's decease has not been revealed.
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Aaron and Melanie archetypal went public with their relationship successful January 2020. The brace announced they were expecting a kid unneurotic successful April 2020, but revealed 2 months aboriginal during YouTube livestream that Melanie had "suffered a miscarriage owed to accent conditions."
Almost a twelvemonth after getting engaged successful June 2020, Aaron revealed that Melanie was pregnant again by sharing photos of a sonogram on Instagram.
However, the couple broke up 1 week aft welcoming Prince successful November 2021, lone to reconcile 1 week later. After breaking up erstwhile again successful February, Melanie and Aaron continued a tumultuous on-off-relationship, often documented connected Aaron's societal media, up until the star's passing.
In an interrogation days earlier his death, Aaron opened up astir their turbulent relationship, calling the past twelvemonth "hellacious."
"We had immoderate turmoil," helium shared connected the Nov. 2 occurrence of No Jumper podcast. "She had beauteous atrocious postpartum slump aft the kid. It got rough. We did things, we said things that weren't true, conscionable similar of retaliating aft each different successful the media. We some learned a invaluable lesson, astatine slightest I did. I learned that that's not what you do. You don't bash that."
He added, "We can't get escaped of each other. We emotion the f--k retired of each other."
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