When he was discovered dead on Saturday, singer Aaron Carter reportedly had several cans of compressed air in his bathroom and bedroom.

According to law enforcement officials, prescription medicines were also discovered close to the body of the former teen darling. It was unclear what kind of drugs they were at first.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department informed The Daily Beast that it was unable to confirm specifics of Carter’s passing.

Compressed air, which is typically packaged in cans used to dust keyboards, is occasionally misused for its psychedelic effects in a process known as “huffing.” For similar euphoric, dissociative effects, whippets, a substance that entails inhaling nitrous oxide, are also utilized.

Nick Carter discusses his troubled relationship with younger brother Aaron Carter in this video.

Carter previously revealed on a 2019 episode of The Doctors that she was addicted to huffing. He claimed that when he was a youngster, his late sister Leslie Carter, who passed away from an overdose in 2012 at the age of 25, was the one who first introduced him to huffing.

He said at the time that he had “kept it secret from the entire world until now” and that he “didn’t really touch it again” until 2009, following his participation in Dancing With the Stars.

To avoid having it recorded on receipts or anything like, he claimed, “I started going to Staples and Office Depot and other places, buying it with cash so no one could trace me.” “I was huffing because I was pretty foolish and depressed, but that’s hardly much of an explanation. Because I’m a drug addict, I was puffing.

His live-in maid reportedly discovered Carter, 34, dead at his Lancaster, California, home on Saturday morning. An 11 a.m. 911 call’s dispatch audio refers to a “female yelling.”

The musician had long been outspoken about his battle with drug addiction. Just last week, after dodging traffic, he was apprehended in Los Angeles on accusations of drunk driving.

At the age of nine, Carter published his debut album, Aaron Carter. His second album, Aaron’s Party (Come Get It), released in 2000, achieved triple platinum sales and solidified his reputation as a teen idol.

In the years that followed, he became associated with other teenage celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff, who paid the singer a homage on Instagram and praised his “effervescent” charisma.

The most recent notable inhalant-related death is Carter’s. Melanie Rauscher, a former participant on Naked and Afraid, was also discovered dead in June, with several cans of compressed air meant for cleaning computer equipment close by.

The 35-year-old was discovered unconscious in a guest room of a property where she was watching over dogs.

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