Aaron Carter Enters Rehab for 'Addiction Problems'

By PopEater Staff Posted Jan 24th 2011 05:10AM

Singer and former 'Dancing with the Stars' contestant Aaron Carter has entered a rehab center to get treated for "addiction problems."

E! Online quotes a source who said that Carter's move to the rehab center was not a based on a court-mandated order but his own choice to finally get help.

"He was struggling recently and needed this," the source said.

Carter's manager, Johnny Wright, said that the singer, 23, came to him a few months ago wanting to return to music and restart his career. Carter has been in Orlando, Fla., working on a new album and "perfecting his live show and his physical body."

Wright said, "Aaron, understanding the challenges and hard work it would take to get himself back to the top, requested to take some time before we started to heal some emotional and spiritual issues he was dealing with."

He continues, "Therefore he has chosen to enter a facility where he feels he will get the guidance and cleansing he needs that will help him on the music journey he's about to take. He asks that everyone keep him in their prayers and that they respect his privacy at this time."

While it is not known what the singer is being treated for, The Daily Mail reports that Carter has been linked to substance abuse issues in the past, and even appeared on 'Celebrity Rehab' back in 2008.

Carter was arrested for marijuana possession that year.

It has also been reported that older brother and Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter has been very supportive of Carter's move to the rehab facility and has visited him in the facility in between rehearsals for the NKOTBSB tour.

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Monday 24 January

By The Hale

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Useless scab.

By themeeker

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He should get together with Linzey Loman. Maybe they can get a rehab discount.

By BTDT

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"Aaron Carter Enters Rehab for 'Addiction Problems'"

Good for him. Hope he gets better.

By stu

Vanilla Ice son.

By R .

Who???

By Aaron

He was like Justin Bieber about 10 years ago.

By YellowRose3218

These 'stars' like to check into a rehab, then have a press conference to tell the world about it.
The man must have took two tylenol at one time, then got scared, called 911.
Then called the press, made a pathetic statement, saying his life is a total mess,, all for publicity.

By Great Mighty One

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Hollywood needs an euthanasia center for these headcases,of course with an in-house PR firm.

By Ted Bundy

Wow...he looks old. Another piece of Hollywood waste.

By Nico Toscani

I'm 39 and he looks older than me.

By gregg

yet another tween 'heart throb' down the drain.

By sarah

He was a cute kid. Looks like he is on drugs now.

By CeCe

You know in the "real" world, we don't get promoted for going into rehab. We'll probably get fired! Maybe if these stars were faced with losing what they seem to take for granted, we would see a lot less of them publically annoucing that they are "going into rehab". i.e. poor poor me! Buy my CD!

By Rand

Your absolutely right but the problem is that the public is the one promoting them, not the artists themselves. The British and American public put their wrecked idols on a pedastal.

By park

who the hell are these people

By gramos555

Carter is a sociopath. That was pretty obvious years ago when his family reality show demonstrated how his whole family was deeply scarred by truly bad parenting. Every one of those people had a personality disorder.

Sociopaths are often drug abusers, and they rarely recover for any meaningful length of time. The only thing he will get out of this current admission to treatment is a tiny bit of publicity.

He is going to land in prison eventually. He's hard-wired to self destruct.

This is the last thing I will ever say about him.

By Sun

He is 23? He looked 40 in that picture! What happened?

Crystal meth happened.

By Bonbon

He was really sweet on Dancing with the Stars, best of luck Aaron.

By Cindy

I don't get the "back to the top" part of this. When was he ever "at the top," whatever THAT means....the only time I ever knew of him was DWTS, where I thought he was really immature....and.....now he is in rehab, which proves it....give someone who is two young (or stupid, or both)too much money (for what?) and this is what happens. It is sad.

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