ABC was supposed to air A Very Backstreet Boys on December 14th, but they decided to pull the special after yesterday’s accusation against Nick Carter.
A woman with Autism and cerebral palsy claimed that the singer raped her when she was 17 and that he gave her HPV in 2001.
Carter denied the charges. “This claim about an incident that supposedly took place more than 20 years ago is not only legally meritless but also entirely untrue,” Carter’s attorney, Michael Holtz, said in a statement to Variety. “Unfortunately, for several years now, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated into making false allegations about Nick – and those allegations have changed repeatedly and materially over time. No one should be fooled by a press stunt orchestrated by an opportunistic lawyer – there is nothing to this claim whatsoever, which we have no doubt the courts will quickly realize.”
This is not the first time he has been accused of sexual assault. Melissa Schuman alleged he raped her in 2003 after another woman came forward in 2017 claiming the same thing. Schuman filed a police report in 2016, but the district attorney did not prosecute because the statute of limitations ran out in California.
