Aaron Carter Opens Up About Past Drug Use and Depression — “I Went Broke”

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Oct 24, 2016 2:03 pm·

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The 28-year-old also admitted that he checked into rehab in 2011 after his stint on Dancing With the Stars failed to relaunch his music career.

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"They were not interested in me. They had no interest in me," he said of record executives. "They didn't want to touch me. I started getting really heavy into drinking and then I was telling people, 'I'm on a bad path right now, I need help.' The next day, I was at Betty Ford Center."

For more scandalous child star confessions, check out the gallery below!

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Daniel Radcliffe

The Harry Potter star admitted to having an alcohol addiction, and even showed up to set drunk!

"I can honestly say I never drank at work on Harry Potter," he told Heat magazine. "I went into work still drunk, but I never drank at work. I can point to many scenes where I'm just gone. Dead behind the eyes."

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Jodie Sweetin

The Full House actress admitted to snorting meth at the premiere of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's movie, New York Minute, in 2004.

"I was pulling off the deceit. It was hard for people to believe I was doing that much drugs," she wrote in her memoir. "I look at photos from that event, and I didn't even look strung out!"

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Lindsay Lohan

The troubled actress opened up to Oprah about her alcohol addiction and drug use.

"[Cocaine] allowed me to drink more,” she said. “I think that’s why I did it when I did it. It was a party thing.”

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Demi Lovato

The former Disney star revealed she was addicted to alcohol and cocaine, and even smuggled drugs onto airplanes.

"I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka and it was just nine in the morning and I was throwing up in the car and this was just to get on a plane to go back to LA to the sober living house that I was staying at…I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it,” she told Access Hollywood. “When I hit that moment I was like, it’s no longer fun when you’re doing it alone."

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Justin Bieber

It might seem like he has it all, but the "Sorry" singer admitted to feeling like late singer Amy Winehouse in the past.

"People see the glam and the amazing stuff, but they don’t know the other side. This life can rip you apart,” he told NME magazine. “I watched the Amy Winehouse documentary on the plane and I had tears in my eyes because I could see what the media was doing to her, how they were treating her.”

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Drew Barrymore

The Charlie's Angels star revealed that her first drink was at nine-years-old and by age 13, she had been to rehab twice.

"I was a happy, blithering idiot," the former child star told More magazine. "I don't know how to feel differently about it because I don't know what another life would be like, so it's hard to pretend or imagine or wish that it was different because it isn't. Even if I was a bad girl at moments here and there, I was never a bad person."

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Shia Labeouf

After several arrests, the Transformers actor finally got sober in 2016.

"You don’t touch it,” the 30-year-old told Variety. “Alcohol or any of that sh-t will send you haywire. I can’t f–k with none of it. I’ve got to keep my head low.”

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Zac Efron

The High School Musical star unexpectedly checked himself into rehab in 2013, and opened up about getting clean.

"What I found is structure. That led me to a balance of opposites: You get out of life what you put in," he told Elle magazine. "There was a moment when my morning routine was, like, 'Get up and Google yourself.' But that stopped, dramatically and instantly, probably three years ago. I realized that viewing yourself through other people's pictures is not living your own life. I wasn't really being myself."

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Corey Feldman and Corey Haim

Corey Feldman dropped bombshell allegations about sexual abuse in Hollywood in his memoir, and opened up with his experiences alongside fellow '80s star Corey Haim.

“With me, there were some molestations and it did come from several hands, so to speak, but with Corey [Haim], his was direct rape, whereas mine was not actual rape," Corey F. told The Hollywood Reporter. "And his also occurred when he was 11. My son is 11 now and I can’t even begin to fathom the idea of something like that happening to him."

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Tracey Gold

Best known for her role as Carol Seaver in Growing Pains, Tracey has been open about her struggles with an eating disorder during her years on the TV series, which she booked at just 12-years-old.

"Even as I got to 90 pounds people would say I looked great or ask me how I lost all this weight," she said. "I knew how to dress myself and hide the problem. My boyfriend at the time, who’s now my husband, would get so angry about it. He would go up to people and say, 'Stop telling her she looks great. She doesn’t. She’s sick.'"

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Aaron Carter

The "I Want Candy" singer opened up to Oprah about his troubled childhood, which stemmed from his parents' unexpected divorce.

"The depression was brought on because I loved my family being together," he said. "I did not want to see them divorced. I couldn't dwell on it. I couldn't think about it too much. I kind of had to block it out. I started partying and getting into a lot of trouble."

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