Just over a year after her brother Aaron Carter was found dead in his California home at age 34, Bobbie Jean Carter, 41, died suddenly Saturday morning in Florida, TMZ reported.
“I am shocked to learn of the sudden death of my daughter Bobbie Jean. and I will need time to process the terrible reality of this event for the third time,” Jane Carter, mother of Bobbie Jean, Aaron and Leslie Carter, who died of an overdose in 2012, told TMZ. “When I am able to think clearly, I will make a more detailed explanation; But until then, I would like to ask that you leave yourself alone to grieve.”
“No matter how deeply a parent feels the loss of a child, the grief of a young child over the loss of a parent must be much greater,” Carter added to TMZ. “So I would like to ask those of compassion to say a prayer for my precious eight-year-old granddaughter Bella, who previously lost her father and is now left without her mother too.”
Aaron Carter, the pre-tween voice behind childhood hits like “I Want Candy” and “Aaron's Party (Come Get It),” was found lifeless in his bathtub last November, reportedly surrounded by multiple cans of compressed air and prescription pills. In the years before his death, Carter had spoken openly about his addiction to snorting.
Three drugs were found near Leslie Carter, herself a pop singer, when she died a few hours after falling in the shower in 2012: the schizophrenia drug olanzapine, the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine and Xanax.