Melissa Schuman, formerly of the pop girl group Dream, sued Nick Carter in April 2023 for sexual assault and battery, after first publishing her story in a 2017 blog post. She recounted the alleged assault in the documentary about Nick and Aaron Carter, Fallen Idols, claiming that Carter invited her and a friend to his apartment in 2003 after they filmed a movie together, where he gave her a sedative and then sexually assaulted her. She was 18 at the time, and Carter was 22.
Now, Carter is countersuing Schuman, denying her allegations and claiming defamation to the tune of $2.5 million. He claims the original blog was entirely false, as well as all of her statements after the fact. He does not deny their sexual encounter but maintains it was consensual and that anything Schuman says to refute that is nothing more than attempts to revive her “dwindling career” made with “specific intent to damage Carter’s reputation and interfere with his business opportunities, advantages and contracts.” Those business opportunities apparently include endorsement deals that would have totaled millions of dollars, including one with MeUndies.
How tragic that the alleged rapist can’t make an underwear commercial. Once again, Carter misses the point entirely. Melissa Schuman’s “dwindling career,” as Carter puts it, was that of a teen pop star in the early 2000s. Carter should know from personal experience that there was no “career” for her to salvage in 2017 when she made her allegations public. You think people were like, “Oh yeah! The ‘He loves me not’ girl!”? Of course not. Even if there was a career to salvage, no one in the history of the world has ever thought to do so by accusing a washed-up pop star of sexual assault, thus opening themselves up to the ire of former teeny-boppers turned bored 30- and 40-something fangirls.
There’s no proving anything did or didn’t happen at this point, so Carter is determined to prove himself instead. All he’s proving is that he’s greedy.