Nick Carter

ABC has canceled its heavily publicized Backstreet Boys holiday special after a woman named Shannon 'Shay' Ruth accused singer Nick Carter of raping her ...

After Ruth had the juice, Carter brought her to the tour bus’s bathroom and “told her to get on her knees, and he pulled down his pants and exposed his genitals, ordering Shay to perform sexual acts on him.” Ruth was a “virgin at the time, she had never had a sexual experience in her entire life,” Boskovich said. The other members of the Backstreet Boys — Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, Brian Littrell, and Kevin Richardson — have not released statements regarding the allegations against Carter or their show being canceled. In 2017, singer Melissa Schuman wrote a blog post in which she accused Nick Carter of raping her in 2002. [online](https://melissaexplainsitall.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/__trashed/).) Schuman told [the Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/melissa-schuman-accused-backstreet-boy-nick-carter-of-rape-and-then-the-vultures-came-out) that she met Carter when they were both making The Hollow, a teen horror movie, some two decades ago. “He threw me on the bed and climbed on top of me. “The last 21 years have been filled with pain, confusion, frustration, shame, and self-harm that are a direct result of Nick Carter raping me,” Ruth said at the press conference between tears. She cried throughout the ordeal and then Carter brought her to his bed at the back of the bus. “He pushed her onto the bed and proceeded to rape her despite her pleas over and over again that he stop, and every time she said ‘no’ and tried to get away from Carter, he’d get angry, push her back down on that bed,” the attorney alleged. During a press conference on December 8, Shannon “Shay” Ruth, 39, accused Carter of sexually assaulting her on his tour bus in 2001. Then Carter allegedly invited her onto the tour bus, where he provided her with a “funny-tasting beverage that he called VIP juice,” Boskovich claimed. Variety [confirmed the cancellation](https://variety.com/2022/music/news/backstreet-boys-holiday-special-canceled-abc-nick-carter-rape-lawsuit-1235455388/). [ABC](https://www.vulture.com/tags/abc/) has canceled its heavily publicized [Backstreet Boys](https://www.vulture.com/tags/backstreet-boys/) holiday special after a woman accused singer [Nick Carter](https://www.vulture.com/tags/nick-carter/) of raping her some two decades ago — when she was 17 years old.