Nick and Aaron Carter‘s sister, Bobbie Jean Carter, has died … TMZ has realized.
Bobbie Jean’s mom, Jane Carter, tells us … “I’m in shock from studying of the sudden dying of my daughter, Bobbie Jean; and I’ll want time to course of the horrible actuality of this taking place for the third time. When I’m able to assume clearly, I’ll launch a fuller assertion; however till then I might request to be left to grieve in personal.”
She provides … “[H]owever deeply a father or mother feels the loss of a kid, the struggling of a younger youngster on the lack of a father or mother should be a lot larger. So, I might ask the sympathetic to say a prayer for my valuable eight yr previous granddaughter Bella, who beforehand misplaced her father and is now additionally left with out her mom.”
The precise circumstances of Bobbie’s dying are unclear, however we all know she handed away Saturday morning in Florida.
Bobbie Jean — in any other case generally known as BJ — was considerably concerned within the household’s music enterprise throughout the peak of her brothers’ careers … particularly Aaron, for whom she served as a wardrobe stylist and make-up artist throughout his excursions again within the early 2000s.
She additionally appeared on the household’s E! actuality TV present, “Home of Carters,” on which she was featured in eight episodes. Within the years since, Bobbie Jean lived a comparatively personal life in obscurity, shying away from the highlight.
Bobbie Jean suffered from habit and substance abuse over time … one thing that was documented on TV, and which she continued to battle into her later years of maturity.
She had authorized troubles as effectively, with arrests documented as lately as this yr.
BJ’s dying marks yet one more tragedy for the household at giant. Not solely did they lose Aaron final yr as a consequence of a drowning at his house — which was additionally discovered to have been drug-related — however the Carters also lost their different sister, Leslie, in 2012 … as a result of an overdose.
Now, the one residing Carter siblings are Nick and Angel … there are half-siblings and step-siblings within the household as effectively. Bobbie Jean is survived by a younger daughter, Bella.
Bobbie Jean was 41.
RIP
