Backstreet Boy Nick Carter denies 2002 rape allegation
LOS ANGELES: Backstreet Boy vocalist Nick Carter has denied a charge that he assaulted a high schooler pop artist 15 years prior, saying he was "stunned and disheartened" by the allegation.
Melissa Schuman, who was an individual from young lady bunch Dream in the late 1990s, asserted in an extensive blog entry not long ago that Carter assaulted her in 2002 when she was 18 and he was 22.
Reuters was not able freely affirm Schuman's charge.
"I am stunned and disheartened by Ms. Schuman's allegations," Carter, now 37, said in an announcement that was messaged to media outlets.
"Melissa never communicated to me while we were as one or whenever since that anything we did was not consensual.
"It is in opposition to my temperament and all that I hold dear to deliberately cause somebody inconvenience or mischief," he said in the announcement.
Schuman couldn't quickly be gone after remark on Carter's announcement. She cleared out Dream in 2002, and after the band made a concise rebound in 2015, it disbanded again in 2016.
She composed on her blog in a Nov. 2 post titled "Melissa Explains It All" that she had chosen to approach after ladies made allegations against other noticeable men in diversion and governmental issues, and the #MeToo online networking development.
The Backstreet Boys were one of the greatest kid groups of the late 1990s and mid 2000s, with hits like "Quit Playing Games With My Heart."
Carter and the band are presently playing a show residency in Las Vegas that is booked to gone through February 2018.
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