Angel Carter Conrad is keeping the memory of her late twin brother, Aaron Carter, alive through her relationship with his son, Prince Carter.
Angel, 37, opened up about spending time with Prince, 3, during her Wednesday, June 11, appearance on Jade Iovine’s “Live From Bed” podcast.
“I’ve met him, and we have playdates. He’s so smart and so sweet,” Angel said.
Iovine then asked whether Prince, whom Aaron shared with ex Melanie Martin, reminded Angel of her twin brother, who died at 34 years old in November 2022.
“Yeah, and seeing him with [my daughter] Harper together, because he’s got this, like, blond, blond hair, and she’s got dark hair like I had, it’s seeing me and Aaron together,” Angel responded.
Aaron and Martin, 33, welcomed Prince in November 2021. Nearly one year later, the “I Want Candy” singer was found dead in his California home after he drowned in a bathtub due to the effects of difluoroethane (an inhalant) and alprazolam (the generic name of Xanax). Aaron’s death was ruled an accident.
More than two years after Aaron’s death, Prince made his red carpet debut with Martin and Angel at the Los Angeles screening of the Paramount+ documentary The Carters: Hurts to Love You, which dives into the Carter family and their struggles with addiction, mental illness and neglect, as told from Angel’s perspective.
Aaron and Angel’s sister Leslie Carter died at 25 years old in 2012. Their other sister Bobbie Jean Carter later died at 41 years old in December 2023.
The family also includes brother Nick Carter, who rose to fame as a member of the Backstreet Boys.
In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly ahead of the doc’s release in April, Angel admitted she had “a mix” of emotions while working on the project.
“There were so many happy times within my family and certainly with my siblings and myself. So being able to look back on [home] videos, it’s not only a memory, but it’s a feeling that you can tap back into,” she explained, adding that “there were moments where it was painful” to see what Leslie and Bobbie Jean had been going through.
“It gave me a better understanding of the abuse and what they went through and why certain things happened,” she continued. “So that was hard. It was painful to watch. What you didn’t see in the documentary is when I was watching those tough videos — the aftermath of the emotional breakdown that I had because it just brought a lot of clarity for me.”
Angel said the doc “had to be authentic” and “honest.”
“And the honest truth is that there [were] a lot of bad things that had happened to us as kids — and there were bad things that happened to my parents. There’s a generational component to this where patterns and behaviors were repeated within the family,” she explained. “I don’t have any ill will towards my parents. What’s done is done. It’s about what we can do now moving forward. I just want people to know that you’re not alone, that we all have our struggles and that even though my family had fame and money, we are just like you and we are in this together.”
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