Bruce Willis’s daughter Scout has detailed her childhood “obsession” with singer-rapper Aaron Carter in a brand new documentary concerning the late pop star’s life.
Premiering on Paramount+ on Tuesday, The Carters: Hurts to Love You follows the pop star, who died in November 2022 at age 34, and his older brother Nick of Backstreet Boys fame via their ascent to stardom. The documentary additionally sheds gentle on the Carter household’s historical past of psychological sickness and habit struggles.
Scout, 33, recalled being about 10 years outdated when she turned “completely bats*** obsessed” with Aaron. She remembered praying for an opportunity to fulfill the younger singer, begging, “Please simply let this occur for me.”
On her twelfth birthday, whereas in Disney World together with her household, her want got here true.
“From inside me erupts probably the most insane fangirl piercing 12-year-old scream you possibly can presumably think about,” Scout recalled of the second she realized Aaron was strolling in the direction of her. Her well-known father had requested the pop star to attend Scout’s celebration.
He was the “sweetest, most lovely, gracious boy I’ve ever met,” she mentioned of Aaron, who was just some years older than her.
However Scout did discover an oddity concerning the state of affairs. Aaron wasn’t together with his dad and mom or accompanied by any adults. “It’s simply him,” she mentioned.
Scout recalled talking with Aaron and the way he jokingly known as her his “spouse” and talked about getting married. He was having fun with himself a lot that he determined to remain for the entire weekend and expertise Disney with the Willis household.
“It was so uncommon for him to get to hang around with children his personal age and never be working, and it was one thing that I solely realized years later how uncommon of a second it was for him to get to only play and be foolish and have enjoyable with us,” she mentioned.
In 2013, when Scout was attending Brown College in Rhode Island, Aaron was touring via the world. She went to see the present and despatched a message to Aaron’s supervisor in hopes of reconnecting with him. Scout was shocked when the supervisor got here out and ushered her and her pal again to see her outdated pal.
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“It’s like all of those emotions are flooding and I can not imagine the state of affairs I’m in,” Scout recalled of that second.
In the course of the efficiency, Aaron known as Scout up on stage. “He sits down, pulls me onto his lap, is serenading me,” she mentioned. “I may have died in that actual second.” Then he kissed her onstage.
After the present, Scout mentioned Aaron texted her, asking her to be his girlfriend, however she brushed it off since he was on tour.
“Clearly it was not what he wished to listen to and perhaps bruised his ego a bit,” Scout mentioned. “We didn’t actually speak once more after that.”
Trying again on the state of affairs, an emotional Scout mentioned Aaron was “somebody who, I feel, was most likely so lonely, and a lot eager for actual love.”
The Carters: Hurts to Love You premieres April 15 on Paramount+.
