Getty ImagesAaron Carter is eating his words.
The singer, who turned heads after he professed his love for his ex Hilary Duff on Twitter earlier this year, is admitting that he needs to take a step back and put his love life in fate's hands.
"If I'm too open about how I feel then people wanna nag and pick and poke at me," he explained during a recent interview with WENN.
"I don't know Hilary, either. She don't know me and I don't know her. I just need to shut up now about it. I think it's time…"
Carter continued, "She's got a kid and she's married and I'm not trying to be that dude. That's not my intention."
The crooner didn't entirely retract his feelings for the bubbly blonde, however, as he concluded the interview by saying, "Hilary will always hold a very special place in my heart."
Carter's original message on Twitter read: "Don't be that stupid dick that loses that love of your life forever.
"Like me…I'll spend the rest of my life trying to better myself to get back to her. I don't care what any of you think."
After several months of staying quiet about the declaration of love from her former flame, Duff finally addressed the tweets in an interview with Buzzfeed.
"I was not expecting that question," she said with a laugh when asked whether or not she would consider rekindling her romance with Carter.
"He does, I keep seeing that, that he keeps doing that. I don't know how I feel. I mean, that was so long ago, and obviously I'm still married and I have a baby and we kind of just…don't know each other. So, yeah…"
Duff also admitted during a sit-down chat on KIIS 106.5'sThe Kyle & Jackie O Show that even though she's technically separated from hockey star Mike Comrie, there's still the chance for reconciliation down the road.
"I mean, if there wasn't a chance for getting back [together], I think we would've filed for divorce," she explained.