Legal custody of Aaron Carter‘s one-year-old son, Prince, has been awarded to Aaron’s fiancée and Prince’s parent Melanie Martin, TMZ reported connected Thursday, Dec. 15. The outlet said a Los Angeles tribunal recovered that Prince would beryllium harmless backmost successful his 29-year-old mother’s arms. The brace mislaid custody of their child, who they welcomed into the satellite successful Nov. 2021, astir a period earlier Aaron’s unexpected death. Prince was placed nether the attraction of Melanie’s mother.
“I’m honoring Aaron contiguous and I cognize helium would beryllium truthful arrogant of me,” Melanie told TMZ arsenic she near New York to prime up Prince, who was successful California astatine the clip the determination was made. “I’m precise affectional reasoning we could person been a family, but Aaron would beryllium truthful blessed knowing I got him back.” HollywoodLife reached retired to Aaron’s rep to corroborate the bully news, but was not fixed a timely response.
As fans know, Aaron tragically passed away astatine the property of 34 astatine his location successful Lancaster, Calif. connected Nov. 5. Just a fewer months anterior to his passing, successful September, Aaron mislaid custody of his 11-month-old lad Prince erstwhile helium voluntarily checked into rehab to flooded addiction, which helium was precise vocal about. Two weeks aft the erstwhile kid star’s shocking death, his representative revealed to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that Melanie’s parent would proceed to attraction for Prince. “Everyone agrees that helium is successful the champion spot for him to beryllium close now.”
A idiosyncratic adjacent to Aaron told HL that Aaron was thrilled to observe his lone child’s archetypal day — a milestone helium did not reach. “He was truly excited to spot Prince connected his birthday,” the root said, besides noting that helium was going to “shower” his lad with presents. He had said that being a begetter was the astir astonishing happening that happened to him and helium was truly trying to get his beingness backmost successful bid truthful that helium beryllium a contiguous begetter to his boy.”
Aaron had been unfastened astir his struggles with substance maltreatment implicit the years and opened up astir his respective stints successful rehab successful a 2017 interview. “I took a interruption since 2017,” Aaron explained successful an interrogation helium taped with Press Pass LA soon earlier his death. “I needed to spell to rehab. I deliberation I grew into the real, true, authentic mentation of myself. I went to rehab 4 times until I yet got it right.”
He was besides trying to close his wrongs with those astir him earlier his decease and adjacent ended his precise nationalist feud with his older member Nick Carter earlier helium died. “Aaron was blessed astir this due to the fact that helium loved his brother,” his rep told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “He looked up to Nick successful truthful galore ways. They were trying to marque everything bully again.”
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