Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter accused of raping a 17-year-old on a tour bus in 2001

Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter has been accused of raping a 17-year-old girl. 

A woman named Shannon "Shay" Ruth filed a lawsuit against the singer on Thursday, alleging the incident occurred in 2001 on a tour bus in Tacoma, Washington.

Ruth, who is now 39, filed the lawsuit in Las Vegas where Carter lives, according to a press release from her lawyers from Corsiglia, McMahon & Allard law firm.