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The Backstreet Boys' vacation special, A Very Backstreet Holiday, volition nary longer beryllium airing connected ABC aft Nick Carter was sued for intersexual artillery connected Dec. 8.
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Content warning: This communicative discusses intersexual assault.
The Backstreet Boys' vacation peculiar volition nary longer beryllium airing connected ABC.
A Very Backstreet Holiday has been pulled from ABC's schedule, E! tin confirm, and alternatively drama repeats volition beryllium airing successful its place. The quality comes 1 time aft Nick Carter was sued for intersexual artillery Dec. 8, but his lawyer Michael Holtz has since denied the allegations successful a statement.
The peculiar was acceptable to aerial Dec. 14, and would person featured Carter on with chap members AJ McLean, Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell and Howie Dorough arsenic they performed hits from their medium "A Very Backstreet Christmas." Fellow stars Seth Rogen, Meghan Trainor, Rob Riggle, Nikki Glaser, Ron Funches and Atsuko Okatsuka were besides scheduled to appear.
In tribunal documents filed Dec. 8 and obtained by E! News, plaintiff Shannon "Shay" Ruth, who has autism and cerebral palsy, sued Carter for intersexual artillery and intentional and negligent infliction of affectional distress. In the lawsuit, Ruth, who was 17 astatine the time, alleged that Carter invited her onto his circuit autobus after meeting him successful the autograph enactment at a Feb. 2001 Backstreet Boys concert.
The documents assertion that Carter brought Ruth to the bathroom, past demanded she performed oral enactment connected him. Afterward, the vocalist allegedly continued to sexually battle her connected a bed, and would not fto her permission the circuit bus. The plaintiff also alleged that she was a virgin earlier the encounter, and that she contracted HPV aft the experience.
Carter's lawyer aboriginal denied the allegations.
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"This assertion astir an incidental that supposedly took spot much than 20 years agone is not lone legally meritless but besides wholly untrue," Holtz said successful a connection to E! News. "Unfortunately, for respective years now, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated into making mendacious allegations astir Nick—and those allegations person changed repeatedly and materially implicit time."
Carter's lawyer added that "no 1 should beryllium fooled by a property stunt orchestrated by an opportunistic lawyer—there is thing to this assertion whatsoever, which we person nary uncertainty the courts volition rapidly realize."
It is not yet wide if A Very Backstreet Holiday will aerial connected different network.
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