“A Very Very Backstreet Holiday,” the Backstreet Boys Christmas special filmed this month in Los Angeles, will not be shown on ABC, diverse He made sure. The news comes amid allegations that singer Nick Carter raped a 17-year-old girl during the band’s 2001 tour.
The special is set to air on ABC on December 14 and features Carter, AJ McClain, Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell, and Howie Doro as they celebrate the season and perform songs from their tenth album, “A Very Backstreet Christmas.” Seth Rogen, Meghan Trainor, Rob Riggle, Nikki Glaser, Ron Funches, and Atsuko Okatsuka were also scheduled to appear.
On Thursday, Shannon “Shay” Roth, a 39-year-old woman, filed a sexual battery lawsuit accusing the singer of raping and contracting HPV when she was 17. She alleged that the assault took place in February 2001 after a back street. Prom for Boys in Tacoma, Washington Ruth, who self-identifies as autistic and living with cerebral palsy, shared details of the alleged assault with her attorney during a press conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
During the press conference and in the lawsuit, she alleged that Carter, 21 at the time, forced himself on her because she “begged him to stop,” and later claimed she was a “redneck little bitch” and no one would want her to. Believe if you speak.
Carter denied the allegations.
Carter’s attorney, Michael Holtz, said in a statement to diverse. “Unfortunately, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated for several years into making false allegations about Nick – and these allegations have changed in frequency and materiality over time. No one should be fooled by a journalistic stunt run by a pushy lawyer – there is absolutely nothing to this claim, which we have no doubt about. That the courts will quickly catch up with him.”
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