Below are the most significant takeaways and allegations all four episodes ofFallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter.
Schuman said that she felt intense pressure from her team to lose weight and date another teen pop star.
It seemed to be a really big priority for these guys.
Aaron Carter and Nick Carter.Annamaria DiSanto/WireImage
And they wereveryadamant that this is a call that I should take, so I agreed.
I know that didnt make my label happy.
Schuman previously went public in a 2017 blog post with information about the alleged encounter, which Nick denied.
Melissa Schuman.SGranitz/WireImage
In 2023, she filed a lawsuit against him, which is still pending.
He seemed like a regular guy, and I was looking forward to getting to know more about him.
He goes, Come sit on my lap, she recalls.
Nick Carter with the Backstreet Boys.Kevin Mazur/WireImage
And I was surprised and taken aback.
The only other person I had ever kissed was my high school boyfriend.
The encounter took a turn when Nick moved into the bathroom.
Nick Carter.Photo by J. Vespa/WireImage
I was scared that if I hadnt done something, he wouldve done something really violent.
I was hoping that it all would end in that bathroom, but it didnt.
Schuman alleges that the situation escalated further when Nick moved them to the bedroom.
Aaron Carter.Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty
I dont wanna have sex, I dont wanna have sex, she says.
I told him so many times, Im saving myself for my husband, my future husband.
Hes like I could be your husband.
Aaron Carter in ‘Seussical the Musical’.James Devaney/WireImage
And it was just disgusting, and thats when I felt him put something inside of me.
and he said, Its all me, baby.
And I remember literally spinning.
Bobbie Jean Carter, Nick Carter, Leslie Carter, Aaron Carter, and Angel Carter in 2006.Kristy Leibowitz/Getty
It was this feeling, of just like, This isnt real.
And then eventually, he goes, Youre not enjoying this, are you?
and I said, No.
Aaron Carter in 2022.Gabe Ginsberg/Getty
And thats when he got off me.
This is not real.
It was such a violation, like, theres no coming back from this.
Aaron Carter.George Pimentel/WireImage
Nick has denied Schumans allegations since they became public in her blog post.
I am shocked and saddened by Ms. Schumans accusations,Nick said in a statement to PEOPLEin 2017.
My first thought was, Do I have to be alone with him?
Nick Carter.Michael Kovac/Getty
and Kenneth goes, Oh, no, its already pre-recorded.
You only have to go in and do your part, she says.
Why would he feel the need to say that?
What did Nick tell him?
And I also thought to myself, Well, hell leave me alone.
Schuman says she accepted the offer for business reasons but was terrified of interacting with him again.
I remember seeing him and I froze, completely froze, she said.
I was scared, and I was very cold to him.
And we sang our duet.
I dont even think I looked at him.
And eventually, he goes, Well clearly we dont like each other.
And those were the last words he ever said to me.
The showcase didnt pan out.
The label feels that you were vocally weak.
They dont want anything to do with you.
They only want to work with Nick, and theyre not interested, Schuman recalls Crear saying.
I had never even kissed a guy.
I didnt know how to accept attention like that, much less yknow, by Nick Carter.
Nick and I ultimately ended up inside the boat cabin.
I felt so drunk and out of my mind.
He was really sloppily drunk too.
Then we ended up having sex, Ashley continues.
Later, the night before she returned home to Pennsylvania, Ashley says Nick asked to talk.
He had poured us a drink.
It was like a never ending supply of alcohol, she says.
Then he asked me to perform oral sex on him, which I declined multiple times.
Just, he kept at me and kept at me and kept at me.
I eventually gave in, and we proceeded to have sex again.
He never used protection.
And it was very abrupt.
He basically said, Okay, bye.
Then I left first thing the next morning to come home.
Nick just picked me up and threw me in the boat cabin and shut the door, she says.
I was so drunk that I had like no control over my body.
He just didnt, didnt seem to care.
And we ended up having sex.
I was adamantly, vocally against [it], Ashley continues.
I was too drunk to notice.
She was 15 years old, and I knew he was a lot older than her.
I had to at least have it on record, Webber says in the doc.
I wanted to hit the bullet points and be done with it.
I was 15 and I was embarrassed.
I didnt understand the gravity and the magnitude, Ashley says in the series.
Ashleyfiled a lawsuit against the singerin 2023, though shes only identified as A.R.
Nick is looking forward to the evidence being presented and the truth about these malicious schemes coming to light.
The Backstreet Boys, they were really never told no, she says.
They could do whatever they wanted: extreme entitlement, extreme privilege.
Jones said that Nick was never physically abusive with her just manipulative.
When I started dating Nick, Paris Hilton and him had just split up.
So there was a lot of rumors in the press, she remembers.
Nick was never physically violent with me, but he would punch walls if he got really angry.
Nick was very good at getting into your head and messing with your head.
He liked to control everything.
So if anyone called my phone, hed get really jealous.
I mean, he broke my phone once.
Like a temper tantrum, like a child.
He wanted to have his way, and thats it.
I just couldnt believe how far he went.
One day, I was coming home from Toronto, I had been recording up there, she recalls.
He had his laptop on the bed.
He was watching pornography, and hes showing me this porn, I said, Turn that off!
And he said I need you to do this for me.
And I loved him so much, and I couldnt do it.
And I told him that, I said I couldnt do it.
She cries during the interview.
Ive never repeated it in my life, Jones says of the singers request.
What he asked of me was crossing the line too far for me.
He became very nasty.
Very nasty very quickly.
So that for me was like, I cant be with this person.
My heart was broken.
I remember when I left him, he said, You wanna hurt me?
Ill effin hurt you.
Jones publicly supported Schuman after she publicized her allegations.
I tweeted that, she said.
It was my way of saying Dont push it.
Because [Nick] knows what I know.
He knows why I left him.
And so do I believe that something horrific happened to that girl?
His accounts of spending time at the familys Florida compound might raise some eyebrows.
[The] first time I saw Nick after he was famous, I was 16, he recalls.
Uncle Bob picked us up in his very fancy car.
We were driving 140 miles per hour on the freeway with open containers in the car.
That was, I wasnt prepared for that.
Just free rein to do whatever you wanted.
The use of alcohol was very excessive.
My dad and my aunt and uncle were all drinking pretty heavily the entire time we were there.
But the kids kinda went off and did their own thing.
There were no limits on what they had and what they had available to them.
What I saw mainly between Nick and his parents was business.
It was about money, she says.
As dysfunctional as it was, it was still your little nucleus.
The documentary says that Jane Carter declined to comment on the series.
Bob Carter died in 2017 at age 65.
Jane and Bob were focused on money, says Carter cousin John Spaulding.
They took the responsibility from Nick and placed it on Aaron at a very young age.
Its your job now.
No child should have to think about the well-being of his family at that age, Spaulding continues.
And it spilled over onto Aaron and Nicks relationship.
Family friend Jen makes similar claims.
Jane was in Aarons ear all the time, she says.
Anytime Aaron didnt wanna do anything, What, do you think Nick takes a break?
That ended up being a massive chip on Aarons shoulder.
Another massive point of contention came when Nick opted to skip his sister Leslies funeral in 2012.
See, he doesnt love you, Jen remembers.
And thats not the truth.
But Aaron became very upset and very aggressive.
Hitting Jane and had her up against the wall.
It was just an insane moment to be in.
I dont understand why a parent would push so hard to divide two brothers.
He was very much looking forward to that.
He was so angry at his family.
What followed was deeply disturbing.
He then picked up a knife and put it to the side of his head, Giovi recalls.
And we were all like, Dude what are you doing?
Just put it down, put it down, put it down, put it down.
And then his bodyguard went up to him and took it.
That was one of the scariest moments that Ive ever had working for Aaron.
I cant explain that to you.
When Jane and Bob split up, Jane moved off the property.
Aaron told me that he would break into Bobs safe to get Xanax, Jen says.
Spaulding said he occasionally partook in smoking marijuana with Bob.
I had smoked pot with my uncle Bob a couple times, Spaulding says.
It was me, him, and Nick and Aarons oldest sister Bobbie Jean.
But from what I saw, none of them were doing anything heavy.
But Spaulding says he later became aware of more serious issues.
Aaron was huffing paint with his dad, he alleges.
I dont know how Bob even got into that and doing that with his son.
Had I had the ability to stop it, to do something about it, I wouldve immediately.
He told me he believed me, and he was just like, Thats my brother, she says.
Eventually we went live on Instagram together.
He clearly suffered from extreme trauma, and hes disclosing to me extreme trauma.
He expressed his support of me.
It meant a lot to me, and I was appreciative.
He got a lot of negativity from going live and social media, says Aarons former assistant Gwen Cataranzo.
The bullying that he endured was horrific, Jones says.
Aarons former fiancee, Melanie Martin, says that the harassment extended into the offline world.
People [were] calling his concerts and canceling his events, she remembers.
YouTubers were calling in restaurants, trying to get us taken out of the restaurant.
He was so bothered by it that he was spending all of his money on private investigators.
It was beyond the point of just hate online, Cataranzo says.
It was threats to his well-being and his family.
Ganval calls himself Aaron Carters arch-nemesis, she explains.
Almost every single video that was on his channel was Aaron.
If you go to his Twitter, a lot of the posts are directed toward Aaron.
Ganval has a Discord server.
One of the main subjects that they talk about is Aaron Carter…it was like psychological warfare.
And Aaron believed that his family was behind it.
The documentary also suggests that Aarons suspicions might not have been totally unfounded.
Why would his sister-in-law be online with an individual that spends his days trying to troll and harass Aaron?
It didnt make sense.
But unfortunately there was more.
Theres actual live footage of Ganval when he received a donation made by Lauren Kitt Carter.
After I found out that there was donated money, now I believe theydidwant to silence Aaron.
The series shows separate footage of Ganval receiving a donation from someone claiming to be Lauren.
Huffman found no evidence of Nick directly harassing his brother.
At no time did I ever see any indication of Nick Carter harassing Aaron, she says.
And I told Aaron that.
But you know, every single direction people were coming at him.
People would even tell him Melanies talking to Ganval, which you know would cause paranoia.
The series shows footage from the podcast interview.
I do not, I do not think they were true at all.
Aaron also aligned himself with Molly Golightly, a YouTuber who repeatedly mocked and attempted to discredit Schuman.
Schuman says she wasnt particularly bothered by Aarons pivot.
Aaron was the biggest target at this point.
Schumans father Jerry speculates that Aarons disavowal of Nicks accusers was motivated by self-interest.
I think Aaron thought it would stop the harassment if he just did this, he says.
But to be very honest, that harassment really didnt go away.
But these lines between Melissa and Aaron openly communicating were shut off.
I dont really even think I even knew or understood what was going on, if that makes sense.
I walked with Nick, and then we just got on the bus.
It was so mentally overwhelming and confusing for me.
Ruth recounts that the singer then moved her to a bed.
Ruth also alleges that Nick threatened her after assaulting her.
I honestly felt like my arm was gonna break in half with the force that he used.
He just said that if I told anybody, that I would go to jail.
Carter does not believe he has ever even met Ruth, let alone sexually assaulted her, he adds.
The lawsuits are pending.
Schuman sued alleging sexual battery, sexual assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligence.
Ashleyfiled a lawsuitin August 2023, though she was only identified by her initials A.R.
She alleged sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
All four episodes ofFallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carterare now streaming on Max.
