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 Nick Carter: Discloses "excessive" drug, alcohol use in talk show
29-year-old Nick Carter opens up about his battle with drug and alcohol addiction in an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show that airs today.
"I would either go out at night or party [while on tour with the Backstreet Boys]," Carter says. "I didn't do a lot of morning drinking or anything of that sort. It would sort of be an occasional thing, but a lot of occasions that I would kind of make excuses to just go out to drink and party. It would be excessive."
Carter continues with the fact that, drugs "kind of came later in life". He adds, "Alcohol kind of kicked it off and then, once the alcohol kind of wasn't doing it for me, I would lean on other things."
Nick Carter says, he couldn't stop despite "rude awakenings, warning signs, DUIs.
"I got the DUI and I realized that it was wrong," he goes on. "I decided to go and sort of punish myself. I went to the classes, did the community service and did everything that I was required to do. Then I would end up in a situation where I was like, 'Ok well I'll stop for six months and then after that, I would feel like it's OK to get back into it.' And sort of fool myself in a way."
Nick credits a healthy lifestyle with helping turn his life around.
"Working out definitely helped my self esteem, and it definitely made it easier for me to kind of push it aside," he says. "I just started replacing drinking and the parties...with healthier things like sports, video games."
The singer -- who was diagnosed with a weakening of the heart muscle called cardiomyopathy -- is sober now.
"My goal in life is to be the best person that I can be and try as hard as I can," he says. "I make mistakes, but...I realize that I'm human and...I don't punish myself for those mistakes.
"[I] continuously try to be that better person," he adds.
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