Backstreet Boy Carter given alcohol treatment order
Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter was ordered into a three-month alcohol treatment programme in California after pleading guilty to drunk driving.
Carter, 25, entered the plea yesterday in Orange County Superior Court. The judge also ordered Carter to pay £663 in fines, placed him on three years’ informal probation and restricted his driving privileges for 90 days, a prosecutor said.
Carter, who wasn’t in court yesterday, was pulled over on March 5 in Huntington Beach. His blood alcohol level was above 0.08, the legal limit.
The singer has said through his publicist that he was on prescription medication at the time “and was unaware of its interaction possibilities.”
The Backstreet Boys, whose hits include I Want it That Way, Shape of My Heart and Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely, recently reunited after four years.
Carter, the youngest of the group, released a solo album in 2002.
