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   From: dysfunctional@liberals.org   
      
   By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper   
   This story was originally published in September 2013.   
      
   Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter told Dr. Phil McGraw in a 2013   
   appearance that his family blamed him for his sister Leslie’s death, and   
   he didn’t attend her funeral because of it.   
      
   Leslie Carter died in 2012 at age 25 of an overdose of prescription   
   medication. On the day of her funeral, Carter performed a scheduled   
   concert seven hours away from the services.   
      
   Carter said his relationship with his four siblings “has been toxic.” He   
   told McGraw that “the communication is something that I’m still to this   
   day trying to work on. ... It’s tough when you come from a background like   
   that and a home that is really up and down and roller-coaster.” The   
   siblings starred in the reality show “House of Carters” in 2006.   
      
   Carter appeared on “Dr. Phil” to discuss his new book, “Facing the Music   
   and Living to Talk About It,” in which he is open about his past substance   
   abuse and family issues.   
      
   Carter said his father called him to tell him Leslie had died, and that   
   “immediately the conversation turned into not about her death and not   
   about the actual passing and what had occurred, (but) more about   
   themselves. ... And then I started to get blamed by the rest of the   
   family.”   
      
   McGraw explained to the audience that the Carter family felt that if Nick   
   Carter “had been there” for Leslie, she might be alive today.   
      
   “I felt (that) was unfair, especially with all the things I have done,”   
   Carter said. “I love my family like everyone loves their family, but then   
   there comes a point when you have to ask yourself if you’re helping them,   
   or hurting them.”   
      
   He did feel at fault for his sister’s death, Carter told McGraw. “There’s   
   definitely a part of me that did blame myself,” he said. “I think that’s   
   because of the responsibility that I sort of took on as the oldest member   
   in my family -- (and) probably should not have been taken on.”   
      
   Carter’s new book is dedicated to his late sister.   
      
   https://www.today.com/popculture/nick-carter-says-family-blamed-sisters-   
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