Former teen pop star and Dream singer Melissa Schuman accused ex-Backstreet Boys’ member Nick Carter of raping her in 2002. Schuman graphically details the alleged attack in her blog – she was 18 and Carter was 22.
Schuman says she and Carter were cast in the same made for TV movie The Hollow. He invited her and a friend to his Santa Monica apartment on their day off, and things got dark from there. “He asked me if I would like to come into his office and listen to some new music he was working on,” she says, at which point he “turned off the light.”
They began to kiss and he was “aware I was a virgin,” but he took her to the bathroom and shut the door. She says he began to unbutton her pants but she told him she “didn’t want to go any further,” and “I’m saving myself for marriage,” to which he said, “don’t worry, I won’t tell anybody,” and “I could be your husband.”
He forcefully took off her pants anyway and “proceeded to perform oral sex on me,” even though she told him to stop. “I remember thinking at that point that maybe after this he will just stop,” she says, “but he didn’t.” Instead, what Carter said next was much, much worse; “I did it for you, you do it for me.”
Carter then “threw me on the bed and climbed on top of me,” after she told him again that she didn’t want to have sex. “He was relentless,” she says, “refusing to take my no’s for an answer. He was heavy, too heavy to get out from under him. Then I felt it, he put something inside of me. I asked him what it was and he whispered in my ear once more, ‘It’s all me baby.'”
“I went limp, turned my head to my left and decided I would just go to sleep now,” she wrote. “I wanted to believe it was some sort of nightmare I was dreaming up.” She also said Carter called for weeks after, stopping only after sending her a nasty message.
Schuman said she tried to tell multiple people – friends, a therapist and her ex-manager. “A short amount of time passed after the incident, I confided in my then manager, Nils Larsen, that I wanted to come forward,” she wrote. “He heard me out and said he would do some investigation and would try to find me a good attorney as I intended to press charges.”
Schuman said that soon after, Larsen told her Carter had the most “powerful litigator in the country.” She decided against coming forward.
A rep for Carter did not immediately return a request for comment.
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