Aaron Carter refused an extensive rehabilitation program planned by his manager in the last few weeks of his life, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
Carter’s PR executives say his manager Taylor Helgeson presented the singer with an intense, tailor-made rehabilitation program when he began to fall from the car – and one expert tragically says he was “saveable.”
In an interview with DailyMail.com, his public relations officer Holly Davidson revealed that the pop star wanted to resolve his children’s custody battle before going to rehab.
“I want to get better and I’m trying to be better, but I can’t do it now,” he told ITC PR’s Davidson.
Aaron and girlfriend Melanie Martin posed at his home in Lancaster, California, in January with their newborn son Prince
Prince, now 11 months old, became the subject of a lengthy custody battle between his parents
Aaron hung up a computer duster in the months leading up to his death, his representatives admit. Several cans of compressed air were found in his home, sources say.
“He set his priorities in handling the courts over his son, the new music and life,” the assistant told DailyMail.com. “Then he wanted to go to rehab.”
Carter was in a protracted custody battle with on-again, off-again girlfriend Melanie Martin, the mother of his 11-month-old son Prince.
Martin started getting her things out of the house on Tuesday, three days after Carter was found dead.
The rehabilitation plan was conceived with addiction counselor Brenden Borrowman, co-founder of ReBoot, a drug treatment center in Utah. According to its website, ReBoot uses “proven military behavioral science” to develop self-esteem and positive behavior.
Borrower said Aaron could be saved
“I really believe that,” he told DailyMail.com.
Borrowman said he had a plan in place that meant Carter would go completely off-grid, with no phones, or access to friends or the Internet; assessing his brain health with leading doctors, followed by a one-on-one ‘no bulls*** life coach’.
Davidson and her colleague Kelly Springer, who were both close friends with Carter, said they were “stunned” when they learned of his passing. He was found unconscious in a bathtub at his home in Lancaster.
Davidson and Springer said they are now speaking out in hopes that others facing challenges, like Carter, will seek professional help
“We were out of breath when we heard the news through a phone call,” Springer told DailyMail.com. “It’s something we’ve all tried to avoid. This is close to home for us.’
Aaron Carter and Melanie Martin had been dating for three years. He was photographed with her in Philadelphia in June 2021, five months before she gave birth to his son Prince
Distraught Melanie Martin appeared at Carter’s California home on Saturday after learning of his death
PR operatives Holly Davidson (left) and Kelly Springer say Aaron had a comprehensive rehabilitation plan in place, but he wanted to settle our custody battle first
Brenden Borrowman said he had a plan in place that involved Carter going completely off-grid, with no phones, or access to friends or the Internet; assessing his brain health with leading doctors, followed by a one-on-one ‘no bulls*** life coach’
Borrowman, a trauma expert, said he planned to live with Carter for as long as it took to aid his recovery, in what his brother, former Backstreet Boys bandmate Nick Carter, attributed to long-term “addiction and mental illness.” ‘.
Carter, who Springer said was in control of his addictions, even agreed to the treatment plan, but missed several opportunities to connect with Borrowman.
In September, the rapper spent a month on the Los Angeles-based Lionrock Recovery outpatient program, where he admitted that he needed professional help to avoid falling off the car after five years of sobriety.
“The last few weeks have been tough,” Springer said. ‘He had blamed his illnesses. He did the best job. It wasn’t his fault at all.
“The point of this rehab is that you have to be isolated in an institution with no phones. There we had to come up with something creative that Aaron could deal with that scenario and be successful with.”
Davidson said, “Aaron was misunderstood. Not many people knew the real Aaron, because people often portrayed him as a villain or villain.
“When you spoke to him daily, Aaron was filled with love, appreciation and goodness and wanted the best for everyone. He was so charismatic, sweet, kind and loving.
Addicts are very good at covering up. If you’re someone like me, who hasn’t been involved with drug addicts, when I spoke to him, Aaron seemed 100 percent fine.
“But when we saw something alarming on Instagram, he didn’t answer my calls.”
The 35-year-old was seen smoking weed on Instagram Live — after adamantly insisting he stopped using marijuana — and sniffed a computer duster, according to his viewers.
‘I understand that’s their behavior pattern. He was prescribed meds and when you spoke to him he said ‘it’s meds, not meds,’ Davidson said.
Borrowman says he’s had tremendous success with previous patients, but Carter’s addiction was “not a choice but a mental illness” caused by “physiological damage to the brain.”
The former US Army veteran planned an intensive three-week plan that included “nutrition plans, physical modality, dialectical behavior therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy” as part of his new addiction company Forge Forward.
He said his focus is on helping patients “retrain” their brains to overcome addictions with advanced science and individual coaching.
Carter’s home in Lancaster was up for sale for $799,900, but the list was removed after he died in the tub there
Mourning fans left candles and flowers at Carter’s home after his death
Martin began moving her belongings out of Carter’s house on Tuesday, three days after her on-again/weird boyfriend was found dead in the tub.
He said the goal was to “get Aaron to a place where he would be with me in Utah for three weeks and I would go home to live with him. My goal with Aaron was to give him a good reset and restore some of the blood flow in his brain… Go back, teach him to be alone again, and really focus on what Aaron wanted to be.”
The former Purple Heart-honoured Afghanistan veteran had spoken to Carter’s friends about the intervention measures, but never got a chance to talk to the singer and rapper.
“It was really sad,” Borrowman said. “It seemed like he desperately wanted to be a better father and have his son in his life. It’s bad that happened.
“I never spoke to Aaron. We tried to set it up many times, but he avoided me. He got to a place where he was ready before this happened. I truly believe that everyone can be saved. He ran away from it.
Addiction starts with trauma. No one becomes addicted to the drug itself. There is an underlying pain and problem, which is self-medication. Everybody is different.’
Borrowman’s therapy would have cost tens of thousands of dollars. “It’s not cheap, but the results speak for themselves,” he said.
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