Nick Carter has been saying how sad he is about the death of his sister and everyone gave him a lot of credit for performing even the night she died, but he kind of threw away all that goodwill by skipping her funeral. Nick said that he wanted to attend the funeral but that no one would tell him when it was going to be. That is such a crock. All of his family have said that is a crock. Apparently Nick never even bothered to try to call anyone to find out when it was going to happen. Don't give me any crap about how the family does not always get along and that crap. It is a funeral. Unless you are planning on snorting coke off your sister's casket, people will probably let you attend. Face it. He did not want to go and could not be bothered to go, just wanted the publicity from her death which he used to promote his shows. It's blunt, but that is the way I see it.
I still can't figure out who these Carters are.
ReplyDeleteROTFLMAO. Nick was a backstreet boy. Aaron was a tween for a second and the sister never had a career.
DeleteHe looks like he snuck into grandpa's closet and stole some things. What a pr*ck. She is your sister.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone watch their show? Do we know if they got along?
ReplyDeleteUnfathomable.
ReplyDelete@EmEyeKay I unfortunately watched one or two episodes and from what I could tell the kids were always fighting in some way with each other (and seemed to be all on drugs constantly) and while I didn't see any parents it seemed like there was a big rift there too. I got the impression all of the kids, esp. the BB and the little brother, felt a little whored out but also at the same time were such douchebags they liked it and hated it simultanously. Which probably explains why they were/are on drugs. The sister(s?) I just vaguely recall being around and basically acting as parents to the guys.
ReplyDeleteoh and yeah completely and totally unfathomable to not attend your own sister's funeral especially under these circumstances
ReplyDeleteHe wanted the money. He played in Baltimore last week. My best friend writes music reviews/upcoming concerts for our city paper & I told her to add that the show might be cancelled due to his sisters death. Ha, yeah right. Of course it wasn't. What a dick. I hope this haunts him for the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteSome siblings really, truly hate each other.
ReplyDeleteAgain, we do not know. I can't judge this without more information.
ReplyDeleteNot for nothing but not all siblings get along. Its sad that she died but for all we know they may have hated each other - that may not be the case here but you never know. Just cause your family doesn't mean you have to deal with them.
ReplyDeleteWasn't he molested by Pearlman or whatever their evil manager's name was? Or is that N Sync I'm thinking of? For some reason I remember a bandmate of his saying that Nick was molested by mgmt.
ReplyDeleteEither way, that picture makes me sad and the whole situation is horrible. If he ever cleans up, this will haunt him.
Families do not always get along and this is not exactly an upstanding family to begin with so if they say he didn't call and he says he did, who do you believe? I do not believe he was promoting himself through his sister's death, he was not on all the gossip sites spewing garbage. I think the took the high road saying his family has strange dynamics or whatever he said. I'm not taking up for him or the family but coming from one messed up family myself, I can tell you that this crap does happen.
ReplyDelete@Izahart, thank you.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons for going to funerals is to support other grieving peeps, so, does he give a f-ck about ANY of his family? Of course we don't know everything about this situation, but by not attending he looks like a complete douche, and he must have known it would look that way.
100% agree with enty. Even Aaron left his off broadway show to be with the family.
ReplyDeleteNick didn't want to give up a gig to go to the funeral. But wanted the goodwill you get when losing a family member.
I watched every episode of House of Carter. Nick was an unbearable dik to all his siblings. He had the money he called the shots and they all hated him for it and for how he treated them.
Now that they are all about broke they don't give a crap about him anymore.
some parents don't have the skills to bring a family up together. I'm not close to my siblings, and in a way, it would be close to hypocritical to pretend we were something we're not, after the fact. I agree there's a minimum amount of respect you should show, but if your siblings are no closer to you emotionally than a third or fourth cousin, I can sort of see not attending a service just to keep up appearances.
ReplyDeleteEveryone grieves in their own way and it can look very different from what is 'normal'.
ReplyDeleteI have seen, first hand, a lot of
bad behavior happen when people are greiving.
My MIL did not tell my husband or his brother that their gdad had died until two weeks later. They were devastated. They kept in touch with their mom too. Gdad had cancer and was hospitalized and mom was with him at the hospital but touched with Alzheimer's (not diaganosed at the time). MIL must have been under sever stress at the time.
Recently, I've had a lot of loss in my life, six family members and three friends of my daughter in less than 12 months.
In the most decent, raised up right families, shiz goes down.
I went to one funeral in my life and I don't plan on ever attending another one .
ReplyDeleteI know it's bad to judge when I don't know everything but I think that's cold. You may not have gotten along but as someone above said, you go to support the families. I've been to funerals where I didn't know the person but I knew the spouse/son/daughter, etc. It's basic human decency.
ReplyDeleteMy husband's parents divorced when he was young. It was a bad break up and she never got over it. She died after a long illness and my husband's father didn't go to the funeral. They had been divorced for over 20 years at this point. His excuse was her family didn't like him (not true). In my eyes, he was a coward who wasn't there when his kids needed a parent. Even if the family doesn't like you, you go, hold your head up and support your loved ones.
There are very few things in life that you just suck it up and go to. A funeral is one of them.
And the excuse "I don't like funerals" is weak. No one likes funerals. But they are a part of life, a societal obligation if you will.
ReplyDeleteSometimes family members are so cruel to each other that in order to live a healthy life, you have to step away. This could be the case, the step Mom was so drugged up she couldn't even stay awake during police interviews. I can't judge because I know the pain your family can inflict on you. Even more so when drugs or alcohol are as prevalent as they are with this tortured bunch. Just so very sad.
ReplyDeletea death in a family is a big opportunity to see people misbehave. there is a lot of old baggage and judgement floating around at these times.
ReplyDeletesomeday this will come back to haunt him. it always does.
It would be rude and against what my Grandmama would have wanted but, if my Uncle dies before my Mom dies, I would not bat an eye if she skipped his funeral.
ReplyDeleteDeath can make people/families act strange and frankly it's NOT unheard of for the really nasty aspects of this to come out in terms of the funeral -- who controls it, who has access, etc. No, really. We don't know what went on here. (Maybe he never supported his sister when she was living and the family really didn't want him there? It's hard to know.)
ReplyDeleteOn the outside, this looks like a douchy move, however, we don't know what is going on in the inner circles of this family, so I won't judge.
ReplyDeleteWe have all heard stories about families going batshit crazy during a funeral, and hopefully many posters here are lucky enough not to have witness is firsthand. But for those of us who have been seen the batshit firsthand, I think we kinda 'get it'
ahole. Only in Hollywood. I believe 1/2 the actors would sell their mother for a key role in a good movie. Ego & Money > Mother & Family.
ReplyDeleteHe will have to live with the guilt of not attending for the rest of his life. Such a sad addicted family. RIP Leslie.
ReplyDeleteI didn't go to my sisters funeral. Nobody from my family called to tell me she died. A friend read it in the local paper and phoned me
ReplyDeleteNo judgement
No judgement. We don't know. When my MIL dies we will go to the funeral, but we really don't want to. My husband is estranged from his sisters for some really disgusting stuff they have done. It will be like he is getting spit at in the face at his mum's funeral, whenever that happens. We are quite certain that after her funeral there will be no further contact. Counting the days.
ReplyDeleteNot counting the days till his mum dies, hope she lives much longer, but don't want to have to deal with his sisters.
ReplyDeleteNo judgment here, either. I have six siblings and there's only one I have a decent relationship with. The others are blood-sucking cannibals and if I don't see them or have a relationship with them in life, I see no reason to be a hypocrite and attend their damned funeral.
ReplyDeleteDon't judge what you don't know.
I came back to this thread because I was reminded of all the Discovery Channel and NatGeo shows about how siblings behave in the wild. They kill each other! Also has a "McCloud/There Can Be Only One" Highlander feel to it, too. In many life forms the dominant sibling is gonna kill the others one way or the other! So maybe we aren't so far removed from our wild sides, huh?!
ReplyDeleteI get that everyone compares it to their own circumstances and you are all honest saying you are fine never seeing another sibling again. Totally get that.
ReplyDeleteThe hypocrisy is that HE claimed they never called him and that he would of attended. The family says that is not true. So either Nick or the family is lying. My bet is on Nick. He used his sister to further some media for himself. I'm judging.
I have a friend who got a call from her aunt to see how she was doing since her mother died. My friend had no idea her mother had died !! The brother lived with mother, mother died, and he had her cremated next day. Never called her. Now she wasnt particularly vlose to her her mother, who had turned a blind eye to the abuse her stepfather heaped on her, but she would like a call and wld have attended the funeral.
ReplyDeleteI tell this story to show what can happen. Things not always as they seem
ReplyDeleteSeeing it was in the news she died and that he gave an interview on GMA about his sister. Tweeted about her death and dedicated his tour to her.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure he knew she was dead and just seems hypocritical he loves the media attention but doesn't do anything to be there at the funeral. This is not a good guy.
I agree with timebob.
ReplyDelete@joymama - my gosh, so sorry for your losses.
ReplyDeleteEven though I'd love to understand that everyone has their right to grieve in their own way, I just can't wrap my brain around missing a siblings funeral for any reason.
My family would do this just to make someone look bad, and judging from the comments they would have succeeded because after all who would believe that FAMILY would deliberately keep a sibling from attending a funeral.
ReplyDeletePlease don't judge, instead be grateful that YOUR blood is thicker than water.
@not on my dollar, I agree 100% in your last statement. I come from a crap family and so does my husband. I won't judge Nick till I know for sure what happened.
ReplyDelete@timebob, that is a catch 22 for him. If he said nothing and did nothing, he would have been persecuted in the media. If he tweets, does an interview and dedicates the tour he is persecuted. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
@SaintsFan, thank you.
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