{"id":28260,"date":"2019-08-04T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1062166"},"modified":"2019-08-04T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T20:33:19","slug":"aaron-carter-speaks-out-about-lina-valentina-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/aaron-carter-speaks-out-about-lina-valentina-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Carter Speaks Out About Lina Valentina Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.659340659341\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.32967032967\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/aaron_carter\">Aaron Carter<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Lina Valentina&nbsp;<\/strong>have broken up after nearly a year of dating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old &#8220;I Want Candy&#8221; singer confirmed the news to E! News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lina and I have decided to go our separate ways,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;I was really hoping this would be the one that lasted forever. We had even talked about having kids, but we couldn&#8217;t seem to get past our differences and the relationship eventually turned unhealthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valentina has not commented. The breakup was announced a week after she came to support Carter as he performed&nbsp;at a&nbsp;Pop 2000 Tour concert&nbsp;n Las Vegas, which she attended with a little boy.<\/p>\n<p>The pair&#8217;s split also&nbsp;comes several months after Carter hinted on Instagram that the Russian-born artist was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/989209\/aaron-carter-expecting-first-child-with-girlfriend-lina-valentina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pregnant with&nbsp;their&nbsp;first child<\/a>, which was followed by him clarifying to E! News that &#8220;I am looking forward to becoming a dad, but am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/995476\/aaron-carter-backtracks-on-pregnancy-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not expecting a child right now<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been through so much the past few years and am trying to learn from my mistakes,&#8221; Carter said in his statement about the pair&#8217;s breakup. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any regrets being with Lina, and I definitely learned a lot about myself. I think this decision was the mature thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to keep focusing on my music, my tour and my fans,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Hopefully my soulmate is out there somewhere and I&#8217;ll meet her soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201974\/rs_634x1024-190804132234-634-haze-almanirez-aaron-carter-me-8419.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Haze Almarinez, Lina Valentina, Aaron Carter\" alt=\"Haze Almarinez, Lina Valentina, Aaron Carter\" data-text=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Gabe Ginsberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.015533980583\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.4873786407767\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/971053\/aaron-carter-professes-love-for-new-girlfriend-lina-valentina-on-instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carter and Valentina went public with their romance<\/a> on Instagram in September. He had previously dated&nbsp;<strong>Madison Parker<\/strong>. The two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/871749\/aaron-carter-breaks-up-with-madison-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">split<\/a> in 2017, after which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/873121\/aaron-carter-gets-emotional-onstage-at-gay-bar-after-coming-out-as-bisexual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carter revealed he is bisexual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also that year,&nbsp;Carter spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/896977\/aaron-carter-leaves-rehab-after-2-months\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two months in a treatment facility<\/a> after undergoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/878408\/police-respond-to-aaron-carter-s-home-for-suicide-threat-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal<\/a> and legal turmoil, including the death of his father and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/867179\/aaron-carter-arrested-for-alleged-dui-and-marijuana-possession-in-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrest for alleged DUI<\/a> and pot possession. The singer, who has also battled an eating disorder in the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/846297\/aaron-carter-explains-again-why-he-s-so-skinny-basically-i-have-an-eating-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gained 45 pounds<\/a>, going from 115 pounds to a healthier 160 pounds.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>In 2018, Carter&nbsp;released&nbsp;the album <em>L\u00f8V\u00eb<\/em>, his first major record in 15 years, and&nbsp;continues to tour.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"44.432748538012\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.8947368421053\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">So grateful for all of you, thank you for your support, your love, and understanding the real me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Wm6Y6msXF\">pic.twitter.com\/2Wm6Y6msXF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AARON CARTER (@aaroncarter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaroncarter\/status\/1158098649252892674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.434782608696\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.6521739130435\">\n<p>The singer posted a car selfie on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaroncarter\/status\/1158098649252892674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> on Sunday, writing, &#8220;So grateful for all of you, thank you for your support, your love, and understanding the real me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1062166\/aaron-carter-speaks-out-about-lina-valentina-split?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Carter and&nbsp;Lina Valentina&nbsp;have broken up after nearly a year of dating.&nbsp; The 31-year-old &#8220;I Want Candy&#8221; singer confirmed the news to E! News on Sunday. &#8220;Lina and I have decided to go our separate ways,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;I was really hoping this would be the one that lasted forever. 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