Nick Carter’s Backstreet Boys TV Christmas special cancelled after star accused of raping teen fan with cerebral palsy
A BACKSTREET Boys Christmas special TV show has been cancelled after the sexual assault allegations against Nick Carter.
The singer has been accused of raping a teenage fan with cerebral palsy in 2001.
The show A Very Backstreet Holiday was meant to feature the group's songs from their latest album of the same name.
It was scheduled for December 14 but was axed by ABC following the allegations, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Carter is being sued by Shannon 'Shay' Ruth for sexual battery, according to court documents obtained by Page Six.
The 39-year-old woman claims the star, 42, left bruises on her body during the incident on his tour bus when she was a teen.
Ruth, joined by her attorneys, tearfully held a press conference streamed over Facebook this week and claimed Carter, then 20, sexually assaulted her on the bus when she was 17.
“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 alleged.
She continued: “Even though I’m autistic and live with cerebral palsy, I believe that nothing has affected me more than what Nick Carter did and said to me.
"My motivation with coming forward and filing this lawsuit is to stop Nick Carter from assaulting more teens and women."
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Carter's attorney Michael Holtz strongly denied the claims.
He said in a statement: “This claim about an incident that supposedly took place more than 20 years ago is not only legally meritless but also entirely untrue.
"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.”
According to the court documents, Ruth claims she joined Nick on his bus tour after a concert in Tacoma, Washington.
The papers state Ruth was asked if she wanted a drink by Carter. She asked for apple juice and he allegedly told her he had cranberry juice - giving her a "red-colored drink".
Ruth said the drink, which Carter is said to have called "VIP juice", tasted wrong but she drank it even though she was underage and didn't want to.
Carter, she claimed, then took her to the on-board bathroom and ordered her to perform oral sex on him.
She claimed she was crying during the ordeal, but he kept going.
She then described how Carter took her to a bed on the bus and continued to assault her, and after the incident, she allegedly said she'd tell people what he did.
The documents claim he told her no one would believe her while calling her a "r******d little b***h".
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The alleged victim says she contracted HPV after the incident and is seeking monetary damages.
In 2017, Melissa Schuman, a former member of the girl band Dream, claimed Carter sexually assaulted her when she was 18 and he was 22.