How to Watch ‘The Carters: Hurts to Love You' Online
Directed by former child star Soleil Moon Frye (Kid 90), the two-part The Carters: Hurts to Love You sees the surviving Carter siblings reveal how mental illness, substance abuse and stardom led to tragedy in their famous family. The documentary also features archival footage includes interviews with Sabrina the Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart, Scout Willis and more.
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Premiere date: April 15
Run time: 1 hour, 54 minutes
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'Being Aaron's twin, I can be this voice for him. This is what happened behind the scenes, here is the truth,' Angel says in the trailer.
Aaron died on Nov. 5, 2022, at the age of 34 when he was found unresponsive in the bath, Leslie died in 2012 at the age of 25 and Bobbie Jean (B.J.) passed away in 2023 at the age of 41; all three deaths were the result of accidental drug overdoses. Music fans previously got to know all five Carter siblings in an unscripted reality series, House of Carters, that aired in 2006 on E! and Much Music.
Frye, who starred in the '80s sitcom, Punky Brewster, recently told The Hollywood Reporter that she was 'so inspired' after meeting Angel.
'I feel that Angel really knew that Aaron, in his healthiest state, would have wanted to have the opportunity to help others… And before B.J. passed away, she said: 'Please make sure that our story is told.''
Frye continues, The family's story was so tragic, and there was so much pain. And yet through that pain, it was so clear to me that that Angel was really finding her purpose. That purpose was taking that heartache and pain and finding light.'
The Paramount+ documentary is among the latest unscripted series examining child stardom and the heartbreaking costs of fame. Home Alone actor Macauley Culkin recently urged Investigation Discovery (which previously released the docuseries Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, Hollywood Demons and Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV) to 'take it easy' on child stars.
Below, keep reading to find more on how to stream The Carters online, including for free.
Split into two parts, The Carters: Hurts to Love You premieres exclusively on Paramount+ and runs a total of one hour and 54 minutes.
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I had a place in Austin for several years in the '90s, and then I sold that place and bought my ranch out here— we live about an hour from San Antonio, and then my ranch is about 90 minutes, give or take, from San Antonio. It's home. We grew up hunting with my dad, and the very first season of Wings, one of my brothers — who's an attorney in Dallas — was like, 'Do you ever think about deer hunting again?' And I was like, 'Yeah!' He said, 'Why don't we find a place to hunt?' And so we did. We found a ranch to hunt on that's about 20 miles from where I'm sitting right now — that was 35 years ago. And whenever I started hunting again, it just reignited my lifelong dream of owning a real cattle ranch and being a real cattle rancher. And I have been for 26 years. I've kind of downsized because I'm getting older, but I don't know, 10-15 years ago, we had about 400 head, which still not a big operation, but big enough that we were making money at it. You're a real cowboy, like your character Billy Clanton in . It wasn't easy to make that jump from TV in the '90s — especially for the guy who played Lowell — how did that come about? So, in the spring of '93 wings, Northern Exposure, Beverly Hills, 90210 and China Beach were all very popular shows, and when Tombstone was casting. The Disney execs apparently sent down to the producers and the writer/director some kind of a note that they wanted the movie to cast some television actors, and that's what they did. And they cast John Corbett (Northern Exposure), they cast Jason Priestley (Beverly Hills, 90210), myself (Wings), and Dana Delany (China Beach), and that's how I got into my first film. Well, I say Tombstone was my first film, but I had done a TV movie. It wasn't supposed to be a TV movie, but it ended up being a TV movie. I was working with Sam on (the TV movie) and we really hit it off. We were shooting one night, and I had gone in and met with with the [Tombstone] screenwriter Kevin Jarre and the director (George P. Cosmatos). It was just a meeting, it wasn't even an audition. We just talked about the Civil War, because I loved Glory (1989), which he wrote, and the Old West, because I'm kind of a little bit of an Old West history guy. Then I had to go back out to Palm Springs where we were shooting (the TV movie). That night — we were doing some night work — and Sam and I were standing there, and Sam goes, 'May need to get ya on the back of a horse.' I didn't get it. Again he said, 'May need to get ya on the back of a horse.' 'Oh, shit!' I got it. (Sam Elliott voice) 'Congratulations, Thomas, you deserve it.' And let me tell you something, I went to cowboy school on the back of Sam Elliott. Sam immediately got me with a wrangler friend of his who lived out there in the desert, and I started— every spare minute I had while I was shooting another movie, I would go out riding with this wrangler friend of Sam's. Then after I finished shooting that, Sam had a really good friend in West Texas who had a big ranch, and Sam, he literally told me, goes, 'You're going to go out there and you're going to work as a cowboy for them, because they're doing their their spring roundup — they're marking calves.' And that's what I did. I went out to cowboy on this huge ranch for a month, and then, literally, the day I finished, I drove back to Dallas, and I flew directly from Dallas to Tucson and went to work on Tombstone. When I showed up, I was pretty seasoned in the saddle. But we didn't do a lot of riding in Tombstone, that was always a little bit of a disappointment to me — because we were cowboys. This conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. 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