As a member of one of many solely boy bands with true longevity, Nick Carter has seen all of it.
Born in Jamestown, New York, in 1980, the pop star relocated to Florida together with his household when he was 4 years outdated. In lower than a decade, his showbiz profession started in earnest. After befriending Howie Dorough and AJ McLean within the early Nineties, Carter auditioned for the Backstreet Boys at age 12, and one yr later, the group was formally shaped with the addition of Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson.
The boy band shot to fame within the mid-’90s with the discharge of their debut album, Backstreet’s Again. Because the youngest member of the group, Carter shortly turned a fan favourite and one of many band’s breakout vocal stars.
Because the Backstreet Boys’ stars continued to rise, nevertheless, Carter started experiencing turmoil in his private life. In January 2002, he was arrested in Florida and charged with one misdemeanor rely of resisting/opposing a regulation enforcement officer with out violence.
“Sadly, I didn’t be taught from it,” the Dancing With the Stars alum wrote of the arrest in his 2013 memoir, Dealing with the Music and Dwelling to Speak About It. “I simply stored compounding my issues by persevering with the identical unacceptable habits and messing up. No inner alarms went off for me, regardless of what the opposite guys in Backstreet stated. I rolled on, repeating the identical self-destructive sample for fairly some time longer.”
In March 2005, the “All I Should Give” crooner was arrested in California and charged with driving beneath the affect. He later pleaded not responsible to the cost and was ordered to pay a $1,200 wonderful and full a three-month alcohol therapy program.
Carter has been open about his struggles with drug and alcohol abuse over time, revealing in his e-book that he was caught sneaking his first drink of alcohol at simply 2 years outdated. “My dad and mom at all times laughed at that,” he wrote. “I laughed too, for some time, after which I didn’t giggle at it anymore.”
Whereas the primary sip was an accident, the American Music Award winner went on to say that he started “consuming closely” as a youngster earlier than transferring on to medicine at age 18. “I used to be gaining weight on the time, the colour in my face was gone,” Carter recalled to Leisure Tonight in November 2015. “I used to be in a position to look within the mirror at one level and stated to myself: I don’t wish to be that particular person that you simply activate the tv and so they’re saying, ‘We really feel actually unhealthy as a result of he died.’”
In April 2016, the Useless 7 star stated he was “utterly one hundred pc drug free,” including that habit was nonetheless a battle for him. “It’s one thing that’s not simple,” he instructed Fox Information on the time. “I nonetheless need to go to remedy. I nonetheless need to resolve the rationale why I’ve resorted to alcohol.”
Preserve scrolling for a glance again at Carter’s ups and downs by the years:
