Carter ‘shocked,’ ‘saddened’ by singer’s assault claim
NEW YORK (AP) — Nick Carter says he’s “shocked and saddened” by accusations made by a singer who said he raped her about 15 years ago.
Melissa Schuman of the girl group Dream wrote in a blog post earlier this month that she was “forced to engage in an act against my will.”
She said the Backstreet Boy took her virginity when she was 18 and he was 22. ”I am shocked and saddened by Schuman’s accusations. Melissa never expressed to me while we were together or at any time since that anything we did was not consensual,” Carter said in a statement released on Wednesday.