The past will come back to haunt Nick Carter.
The allegedly Past, we should probably emphasize.
As you may recall, in 2017, singer Melissa Schuman accused the Backstreet Boys member of drugging her and assaulting her in 2003 when she was a teenager.
In February 2018, Santa Monica police confirmed that they had opened an investigation against Carter after Schuman made these allegations.
“I’m finally doing what I thought I couldn’t do anymore. “I’m filing a police report,” the former member of the pop group Dream said at the time, adding the hashtag #MeToo and crediting the Rape Abuse Incest National Network for “enabling me to take this step.”
Carter responded at the time:
“I am shocked and saddened by Ms. Schuman’s allegations.
“Melissa never expressed to me, while we were together or at any other time, that anything we did was non-consensual. We then recorded a song and performed together, and I was always respectful and supportive of Melissa both personally and professionally.
“This is the first time I have heard of these allegations, almost two decades later. It goes against my nature and everything I hold dear to intentionally cause discomfort or harm to anyone.”
Meanwhile, in December 2022, a woman named Shannon Ruth and three Jane Does filed a lawsuit against Carter in Nevada… The former alleged that Carter drugged and raped her on his tour bus after a 2001 concert in Washington.
No charges were ever filed against Nick Carter.
Now, however, Carter and his late brother Aaron will be the subject of a documentary on Investigation Discovery.
It is also streaming on Max and is titled “Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter.” It will air on Monday, May 27th and Tuesday, May 28th at 9/8c.
The special includes interviews with Schuman, Ashley Repp and Ruth. all of whom have accused Nick Carter of sexual assault.
Also interviewed are an unnamed “member of the Carter family” and friends, including Nick Carter’s ex-girlfriend Kaya Jones and Aaron Carter’s former fiancée Melanie Martin.
The series is expected to explore these sexual assault allegations against Nick Carter by numerous women… and also delve into younger brother Aaron Carter’s struggles with his mental health and substance abuse, leading to his death in 2022.
“I’m heartbroken today,” Nick Carter said at the time.
“Although my brother and I had a complicated relationship, my love for him never faded.
“I always held on to the hope that one day he would somehow find a healthy path and eventually find the help he so desperately needed.”