Nick Carter Sued for Alleged Rape of 17-Year-Old Girl on His Tour Bus in 2001
“The last 21 years have been filled with pain, confusion, frustration, shame, and self-harm that are a direct result of Nick Carter raping me,” said Shay Ruth.
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Shannon “Shay” Ruth, a 39-year-old woman, filed a sexual battery lawsuit on Thursday alleging that Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter raped her when she was just 17. “The last 21 years have been filled with pain, confusion, frustration, shame, and self-harm that are a direct result of Nick Carter raping me,” Ruth said at a press conference with her attorney.
According to Rolling Stone, the civil suit details Ruth’s disturbing account of assault that she alleges began when Carter, then 21, picked her out of a line of fans asking for autographs outside of Washington’s Tacoma Dome in 2001. Carter, who was then on a worldwide tour with the Backstreet Boys, invited her to join him on the boy band’s tour bus.
Ruth, who news outlets have noted is autistic and has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, claims that once she joined Carter on the bus, he plied her with a pink drink he called “VIP juice.” The drink, she now thinks, was a mix of cranberry juice and some kind of alcohol. Carter then led Ruth to the bathroom on the bus, instructed her to get on her knees, and forced her to perform oral sex, she alleges. Though she was crying, Carter insisted she keep going.