The new Fallen Idols docuseries, which discusses Nick Carter's allegations and Aaron Carter's issues, is now out. The team behind it talked about the reason for everything and why they made this about the pop stars.

This new ID series covers allegations against Nick Carter that he raped former Dream singer Melissa Schuman. Also, Ashley Repp was a friend of Aaron's twin sister, Angel, who also accused him of rape. Beyond that, the series features Shannon “Shay” Ruth, who filed a lawsuit in December 2022, accusing Nick of assaulting and raping her when she was 17.

Regarding Aaron Carter, the series covers the relationship between the brothers and how they were pitted against each other. This was mostly from their mother, Jane Carter. It also covers their E! reality series, House of Carters, where the two would brutally fight each other often. Aaron ultimately defended the rape accusers. He also battled with drugs and addiction and passed away in 2022.

ID president and showrunner give details about the making of Fallen Idols

THR talked with ID president Jason Sarlanis and the showrunner, Elissa Halperin, about the controversial series and why they released it.

Hirschorn said of working on the series, “I initially talked to Jason in the fall of '22. I think we'd brought the project out shortly before Aaron Carter died, and it was actually a much more straightforward project at the time. And then as we were taking it out, we got the horrible news about his death. And then Jason really challenged us to expand the scope of the project and to kind of knit together the story of Aaron and Nick with the story of the three women, which I think made the whole story much more powerful and made it a lot more dimensionalized and richer, and I think just elevated it from a kind of simple story to one that had so many different elements. Ultimately, we had to expand it from three to four episodes.”

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As for showrunner Halperin, she felt a connection to the project and wanted to pursue it. “For me, there was a personal element to it,” she said. “I came of age when these two young men were coming up. So, I had that personal nostalgic connection to it. I really wanted to look at the big picture of, how do two men who were on top of the world 25 years ago wind up where we are now — which is, one has been accused of very tragic things and one is no longer with us, which is tragic as well.”

“My approach is to look at everyone's story and try to give everyone space for their point of view, and to figure out how all of those pieces connect in a way that's fair and that honors the women and their intentions as well as understanding the challenges of presenting something that is evolving and wanting to get the voice and perspective of someone who opted not to personally participate,” she continued.

Fallen Idols is available on ID and Max.