Aaron Carter Blames 'Dancing with the Stars' For His Drug Addiction + Wants Hilary Duff Back - VIDEO

Aaron Carter recently had an interview on Entertainment Tonight and while there he talked about how his drug addiction started on Dancing with the Stars.

And also owned up to (as we know) still being madly in love with his ex Hilary Duff.

As Carter admitted during the interview, "When I was doing Dancing with the Stars, ... I developed an addiction to Xanax because of stage fright actually. I developed stage fright during the show."

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Apparently he went on the show to restart his career but he ended up getting into Xanax to deal with his anxiety instead.

You can watch him talk about how he became clean above and stick around for the best line in the whole interview, "I'm not gonna give up on Hilary. Ever."

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