(CNN) — The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner determined that singer Aaron Carter died from drowning and from the effects of alprazolam and difluoroethane, according to a summary posted on the coroner’s website Tuesday.
Alprazolam is the generic form of Xanax, while difluoroethane is found in refrigerants and aerosols.
Carter died on November 5 of last year. He was 34 years old.
At the time, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told CNN that they responded to a call for help at Carter’s home in Lancaster, California, where a person was found dead.
Carter was found dead in his bathtub, the source said.
Carter, also famous for the pop song “Crush on You,” is survived by his son Prince.
In 2017, the singer received a lot of support from his followers and other celebrities when he came out as bisexual.
“There is something I would like to say that I feel is important to me and my identity, which has been weighing on my chest for almost half my life,” Carter wrote on Twitter. “I am not ashamed of this, it is just a weight and a burden that I have held on to for a long time and that I would like to get rid of.”
Aaron Carter in 2017.
He then explained that around the age of 13 he “began to find boys and girls attractive.”
“There were years that I thought about it, but it wasn’t until I was 17, after a few relationships with girls, that I had an experience with a man that I was attracted to, someone I also worked with and grew up with.”
Additionally, the singer opened up in a 2019 episode of “The Doctors” about his battle with multiple mental health issues, including multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, acute anxiety, and manic depression.
“This is my reality,” Carter said while holding up a plastic bag containing several prescription bottles in a video posted on the show’s Facebook page.
In 2017, Carter had been arrested in Georgia on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana while he and his then-girlfriend Madison Parker were traveling through Habersham County.
The singer later said in an interview that he doesn’t drink and denied that he has a drug problem, CNN previously reported.
“I don’t need help,” he said. “What I need is for people to understand that I’m human and I make mistakes like everyone else in this world, but I would never risk my life or my girlfriend’s.”
