Nick Carter has been open about his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, but the Backstreet Boys member is coming clean in more ways than one with his new autobiography. Excerpts from the upcoming autobiography, Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It, were released by Radar Online. In the new book, Carter made the shocking claim that he had his first drink at the age of two, and described his relationship with Paris Hilton as one of the worst moments in his life because she helped facilitate his drug use!
Carter claims in the autobiography that when he was a toddler, he “crawled into one of the Yankee Rebel’s liquor storage rooms where I was caught drinking for the first time.” He said both of his parents struggled with alcohol addiction and that it contributed to his own. His drinking became out of control when he was a teenager and he eventually moved into drug use that including cocaine, Ecstasy and painkillers.
His fellow Backstreet Boys member staged an intervention after he was arrested for drunk driving in 2005 and ordered to rehab, and then again for cocaine possession in 2010, but it was to little avail. “We’d chug beers and pound down shot after shot until we reached the semi-comatose state where the alcohol made us sleepy and lethargic,” he said. “Then we’d do a bump of cocaine for an energy boost. My crowd made partying an extreme sport. We repeated that binge and bump cycle night after night.”
The Backstreet Boy eventually gained 50 pounds due to his drug addiction. But what caused Carter to stop his alcohol use was eventually being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart that was partly contributed to by his drinking. Although he admits continuing to periodically struggle with drug use, and claims that his Ecstasy use contributed to his current depression, he is currently clean and sober. “I’m not perfect now. I still slip up when it comes to drinking,” he said. “But I’m alive and great things have happened for me in the last few years.”
Unfortunately for Carter, drug use has left a permanent mark on his family. His younger sister, Leslie, passed away last year after reportedly overdosing on prescription drugs. His younger brother, Aaron, also entered rehab in 2011 for addiction issues.
Originally posted by Hollywood Take
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