Nick Carter maintains his innocence following the discharge of Investigation Discovery’s Fallen Idols: Aaron and Nick Carter, which aired Monday and Tuesday night time.
The four-part docuseries featured interviews with former Dream pop group member Melissa Schuman, Shannon “Shay” Ruth and Ashley Repp, three ladies who’ve come ahead and accused the Backstreet Boys frontman of sexual assault.
“These are precisely the identical outrageous claims that led us to sue this gang of conspirators,” Carter’s lawyer, Dale Hayes, Jr., stated in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter. “These circumstances are working their method via the authorized system now, and, primarily based on each the preliminary courtroom rulings and the overwhelming proof, we now have each perception that we’ll prevail and maintain them accountable for spreading these falsehoods.”
Over time, Carter has maintained that the ladies featured within the docuseries conspired to extort, harass and defame him with their allegedly false claims, so he and his authorized crew have countered the ladies’s fits with their very own.
In a dialog with THR, Fallen Idols government producer Michael Hirschorn defined they had been persistently in contact with Carter’s crew all through filming, frequently giving him an opportunity to remark, however he refused.
“Journalistically, if there have been allegations that had been made, the issues that had been contended by a few of the ladies or different individuals we spoke to, we requested for responses from the Carter camp,” he instructed THR. “At each level, we now have additionally included authorized paperwork as a part of a useful resource for individuals who wish to dig extra deeply into the challenge and wish to study extra, as a result of there’s a major paper path of costs and counter-charges.”
Hirschorn, showrunner Elissa Halperin and ID president Jason Sarlanis thought it was essential to be empathetic and truthful in Fallen Idols, guaranteeing they had been an goal third celebration.
“We wish to give [the alleged victims] a platform and a discussion board to say what they wish to say, and we’re very comfy that we conveyed the essence of what they wished to say precisely,” the EP stated. “However then it was incumbent on us to be sure that if the Nick Carter camp … had a possibility to reply, that we had been representing and weighing these responses in a considerate method. And that was actually tough.”
All 4 episodes of Fallen Idols at the moment are streaming on Max.