| Backstreet's Nick Carter On His Arrest: 'I'm Not A Bad Person' Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, who was arrested at a Tampa, Florida, nightclub last week, says he's sorry if anyone interpreted his actions that night as disrespectful, but he maintains that he's guilty of no wrongdoing. "Basically, I did not do anything wrong, and I know that for a fact, " the 21-year-old Carter told MTV News on Tuesday (January 8) in a phone interview during "TRL." The youngest Backstreet Boy was arrested and charged with resisting a law enforcement officer early January 2 after he refused to leave the Pop City nightclub when police instructed him to do so (see "Backstreet Boy Nick Carter Arrested After Argument In Tampa Bar"). "Sometimes things get blown out of proportion as everybody knows, but if I disrespected a cop in any way, I apologize. ... People who know me know I'm not a bad person. I know better." Carter's first public comments on the matter echoed a written statement issued by the Backstreet Boys camp the day after his arrest; the press release maintained Carter's innocence while claiming the arrest was a result of the singer's celebrity. Bandmate Kevin Richardson was the first Backstreet Boy to call after the incident, Carter said. "He was like, 'What happened, little bro?' He left a message because he was up in the mountains. So I called him back and left him a long message that basically told him what happened." |
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