TRAGIC

Bobbie Jean Carter, Sister of Pop Stars Aaron and Nick, Dead at 41

“I will need time to process the terrible reality of this happening for the third time,” Jane Carter, mother of Bobbie Jean, told TMZ.

Just a little over a year after her brother, Aaron Carter, was found dead in his California home at the age of 34, Bobbie Jean Carter, 41, died suddenly on Saturday morning in Florida, TMZ reported.

“I am in shock from learning of the sudden death of my daughter, Bobbie Jean; and I will need time to process the terrible reality of this happening for the third time,” Jane Carter, mother of Bobbie Jean, Aaron, and Leslie Carter, who died in 2012 of an overdose, told TMZ. “When I am able to think clearly, I’ll release a fuller statement; but until then I would request to be left to grieve in private.”

“However deeply a parent feels the loss of a child, the suffering of a young child at the loss of a parent must be much greater,” Carter added to TMZ. “So, I would ask the sympathetic to say a prayer for my precious 8-year-old granddaughter Bella, who previously lost her father and is now also left without her mother.”

Aaron Carter, the pre-tween voice behind aughts hits like “I Want Candy” and “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It),” was found unresponsive in his bathtub last November, reportedly surrounded by multiple cans of compressed air and prescription pills. In the years preceding his death, Carter had spoken openly of his addiction to huffing.

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 treatment drug Olanzapine, the muscle relaxant Cyclobenzaprine, and Xanax.