Hilary Duff paid tribute to her late ex-boyfriend Aaron Carter with a touching Instagram message.
On November 5, People that former child star and “I Want Candy” singer Aaron Carter was found dead in his California home at 34 years old. No cause of death was reported.
“For Aaron—I’m deeply sorry that life was so hard for you and that you had to struggle in front of the whole world,” Duff wrote in an Instagram post on November 5. “You had a charm that was absolutely effervescent…boy did my teenage self love you deeply.”
She concluded her message by sending love to Carter’s family, adding, “Rest easy.”
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Aaron Carter is the younger brother of Backstreet Boys band member Nick Carter and released his first solo album in 1997 at just nine years old. In the early ’00s, Aaron released his biggest hits, including “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)” and “That’s How I Beat Shaq.” After a musical hiatus in the mid-’00s, Aaron released the rap single “Ooh Wee” in 2014 and dropped his fifth and final studio album, LØVË, in 2018.
At the height of his early career, Carter began dating the Lizzie McGuire star when they were both 13 years old. At the time, Carter was making multiple TV appearances on shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and 7th Heaven, but most famously guest-starred in the 2001 episode of Lizzie McGuire, titled “Here Comes Aaron Carter.”
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After dating on and off for a few years, the pair broke up in 2004. Duff is now the mother of three children, while Carter welcomed a baby with Melanie Martin in 2021. Hilary shares her eldest child, 10-year-old Luca, with ex-husband Mike Comrie. She went on to marry Matthew Koma in 2019 and has since welcomed two daughters: four-year-old Banks and one-year-old Mae.
Despite their having drifted apart, Aaron Carter once referred to Hilary Duff as the “love of his life” in a series of tweets from 2014.
