Nick and Aaron Carter Docuseries Revelations

‘Fallen Idols’ delves into the accusations and controversies surrounding Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter and the late pop singer Aaron Carter.

The Investigation Discovery docuseries introduces three women who claim they were sexually abused by Nick: Melissa Schuman, a singer best known as a member of the girl group Dream; Ashley Repp, a former friend of Nick’s sister Angel; and Shannon “Shay” Ruth, who in December 2022 became the first woman to file sexual abuse charges against him.

The four-part docuseries also provides insight into the Carter family – consisting of parents Robert and Jane and children Nick, Leslie, Angel, Bobbie Jean and Aaron – which was plagued by a series of tragedies: Leslie died at the age of 25 from a drug overdose. in 2012; in 2022, Aaron drowned at the age of 34 due to the effects of alprazolam, a generic form of Xanax, and inhaling difluoroethane; and Bobbie Jean died of a drug overdose in 2023 at the age of 41.

In the document, a title card stated that Nick “denied the allegations and questioned the credibility of his accusers,” and declined to be interviewed.

Here are the five biggest reveals from “Fallen Idols,” which airs two nights on May 27 and 28 at 9 p.m. ET. by ID and Max.

Nick’s text message to Schuman after alleged sexual abuse

Schuman talked about her alleged rape by Nick in 2003. The two were filming the TV movie ‘The Hollow’ at the time. According to Schuman, he invited her and a friend to his apartment for an “informal hangout” in Santa Monica. Schuman claimed that Nick took her into a bathroom, where he began forcibly performing oral sex on her.

“He keeps kissing me and then lays me on the counter. I feel him unbutton my pants, I stop him and tell him, ‘I don’t want to go any further,'” Schuman said. “But he didn’t listen to me, even though I resisted and told him no. He started having oral sex on me, which was horrible.”

She added, “I turned off the light so I didn’t have to see it, I didn’t have to see him, I didn’t have to see any of it. He turned it on again and again and said he wanted to look at me, which was even more humiliating and rude. I don’t even know how long it took.”

Schuman claimed that Nick forced her to give an answer, saying, “He takes off his pants, lays down on the counter and says, ‘Now put it on me.'”

After she refused, Schuman claimed, “He started getting really angry and annoyed with me.”

They then moved to the bedroom, she recalled. “As he kisses me, I tell him, ‘I don’t want to have sex. I’m saving myself for marriage.’ I told him so many times, “I’m saving myself for my future husband.” He said, “I could be your husband.”

Schuman then told the cameras that she “felt him putting something inside her.”

‘I have not seen it. I haven’t tried to see it. I asked him, ‘Nick, what is that? He said, “It’s all me, baby,” she continued. “Finally he says, ‘You’re not enjoying this, are you?’ I said no.’ And then he got off me.”

The day after the alleged assault, Schuman received a text message from the singer that read, “Why did you make me do that?”

“That text message scared me,” Schuman said. “I confided in my manager to go to the police and file a report. And he was like, ‘[Nick’s] got the most powerful trial lawyer in the country. ”

The docuseries noted that Nick insists his sexual encounter with Schuman was “consensual” and that his friend Tony Bass, who was there that night, backs up his story. Schuman’s previous manager also denied that she had told him about the alleged rape.

Nick’s ex-girlfriend, former Pussycat Dolls member Kaya Jones, reached out to Schuman after she spoke out

Jones, who dated Nick in the 2000s, appeared on “Fallen Idols” to explain why she believed Schuman’s claims.

Jones recalled reading Schuman’s blog post in 2017, in which she publicly accused Nick of raping her. While Nick denied Schuman’s claims, the former Dream singer was harassed and targeted by his fans online, so Jones messaged Schuman on X/Twitter asking if she wanted to talk over the phone.

“I saw a young woman trying to speak and someone who thought he had more power and authority trying to shut her up,” Jones said in the docuseries. ‘He knows what I know. He knows why I left him. So do I believe that something horrible happened to that girl? Yes, yes, I do.”

Schuman said Jones was “so nice” and they talked for hours. In 2017, after Schuman published her allegations of sexual assault, Jones wrote further X/Twitter: “Nick Carter was my boyfriend when I was in the Pussycat Dolls. He knew about the abuse I suffered and did nothing. I think I know why now. Awful. Shameful. Disgust in my heart. Especially because he was a victim of abuse himself. Shame on you Niek!”

Aaron also supported the women who accused his brother of sexual assault

Nick allegedly attacked Repp, who was friends with his sister Angel at the time, at the Carter family home in Florida when he was 23 and she was 15.

After a second instance, in which Repp claimed she was raped by Nick in front of his friends, she said, “Aaron could tell there was something wrong with me.”

“Aaron was very kind to me,” she continued. “He did not have a good relationship with his brother at the time because what he said were similar events with his brother and younger girls.”

Meanwhile, Schuman claimed that Aaron contacted her in 2019 and “told her he believed me, and that’s my brother.”

Aaron expressed a public outcry in support of Nick’s alleged victims, which led to an intense feud between the two brothers.

Aaron believed his family was involved in the cyber attacks against him, so he hired a private investigator

Aaron faced a wave of online bullying that took over his life, especially when he decided to publicly support Nick’s accusers.

“I was hired by Aaron Carter,” Jennifer Huffman, a private investigator, said in the docuseries. “He told me he was the victim of harassment. He wanted help to make it stop. A lot of this stuff came from a YouTube streamer named Ganval. Ganval calls himself Aaron’s archenemy.”

Aaron assumed his family was behind the cyberattacks, saying in an Instagram livestream that Nick “is clearly doing it… It only started when I became a voice for rape victims.”

Huffman then pointed to footage of Ganval and Lauren Kitt Carter, Nick’s wife, interacting on social media.

“Why would his sister-in-law be online with someone who spends his days trolling and harassing Aaron?” Huffman wondered. “Unfortunately there was more. There is actual live footage of Ganval receiving a donation from Lauren Kitt Carter.

Huffman added, “But at no point did I see any indication that Nick Carter was harassing Aaron.”

The Carter children’s fraught relationship with their parents, Robert and Jane

“Fallen Idols” explores the Carters’ dysfunctional family dynamics, especially through the relationships between the parents and their children.

Jen, a friend of the Carter family, claimed that mother Jane would pit Nick and Aaron against each other by comparing their success. “Jane was in Aaron’s ear the whole time,” Jen said.

When Leslie died of a drug overdose in 2012, John Spaulding, the Carter siblings’ cousin, said Jane “blamed Nick for Leslie’s death.” She told Nick that he should have been there for her. He had the money – why didn’t he do anything?”

Nick decided not to attend Leslie’s funeral. When Aaron learned his older brother wouldn’t be in the service, “their mother told Aaron he doesn’t love you,” Jen said.

Aaron’s tour manager Mark Giovi recalled Aaron’s Broadway performance in “Seussical” in 2001; Aaron was 13 years old. “He did great, but it was grueling and he had six shows a week,” Giovi said. “His family, I think, said they were going on a family vacation when Aaron was done. He was really looking forward to that.”

But according to Giovi, the Carter family went on vacation without Aaron; in response, Aaron “grabbed a knife and put it to the side of his head.”

Elsewhere in the docuseries, Spaulding claimed he saw Aaron “puffing paint” with Robert, adding, “I don’t know how Bob even started doing that with his son.”

“Jane and Bob Carter have done great things and progressed [Aaron’s] career to what it was, but they also did some negative things,” Giovi said on screen. “They treated the children like employees.”