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Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys has been accused of rape by Melissa Schuman, a former member of the girl group Dream, who says the singer had oral sex and intercourse with her against her will at his apartment when he was 22 and she was 18.
Carter, now 37, said in a statement Wednesday that he was “Shocked and saddened” by Schuman’s allegation, which he said he was hearing for the first time.
Schuman wrote early in November on her personal blog that she met Carter over the phone via their reps when she was 18 and accepted an offer to hang out with friends at his apartment.
Schuman described a night of Carter leading her from room to room and escalating his sexual behavior – including performing oral sex on her and initiating intercourse – despite what she said were continued refusals to consent.
“Melissa never expressed to me while we were together or at any time since that anything we did was not consensual,” Carter said.
Schuman hadn’t intended to share her story publicly, she said, until after a woman with a similar story was bashed in online comments after speaking anonymously to Radar Online in late October.
A rep for Carter told Radar in October, “The woman fabricated the claims against Nick for one simple reason – she was hoping to extort money from him.”