The Backstreet Boys have truly been brothers — fist fights and all!
During a panel appearance at 90s Con in Hartford, Conn., on Sunday, March 30, AJ McLean was asked if there were ever any big physical blowouts between the boys.
“Nicky and I have actually been the only ones ever,” McLean, 47, revealed. “I never got a punch in. He just punched me.”
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The first fight between McLean and Nick Carter, 45, was over a comic book, McLean explained.
“He was a big comic book collector, and I went through a really bad acne phase when I was a teenager. I was 14 or 15, and he kept calling me Pizza Face, and he had just picked up an Alien vs. Predator [Volume] 1, and I was like, ‘Call me Pizza Face one more time…’ And I held the comic book over the sink at Kevin [Richardson]’s apartment with a lighter, and I said, ‘Call me Pizza Face one more time.’”
That’s when things got a little bit out of control. “I didn't realize that the flame was at its highest,” said McLean. “So it burst into flames. To make it worse, then I turned the water on. So now [the comic book is] burnt, and it's soggy.”
That’s when Carter “came up and put me in a headlock and just started punching the back of my head,” McLean recalled. “At this time, Kevin, Brian [Littrell] and Howie [Dorough] lived together. So Brian was in his room on the phone. Kevin heard this rustle, came out in a towel from the shower; towel falls off — twig and berries out! Howie runs out, sits down, he's eating popcorn, and it's a movie. He's like, ‘This is amazing!’”
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McLean continued, “I’m like, ‘Nick, stop punching me. What's happening?’ It was so much happening at one time.”
The two got into it yet again, McLean revealed — just moments before they were to perform. “The second time, Nick did it again. We were about to go on stage. [It was] five minutes before the show, and Brian and Nick were kind of just burnt out, and they wanted time off, and I was like, ‘You guys are being total wusses. We should grab every opportunity. We don't need time off. Let's just keep going, keep going, keep going.’ And [Nick] didn't like that, and he went to walk out of the dressing room, and he grabbed a lamp, and he threw it. And I moved. It hit Brian, and he's like, 'What did I do?’”
Then, McLean said, the “same thing” happened. “[Nick] put me in a headlock and punched the back of my head,” he recounted. “I guess he realized, don't touch the face. Just punch the back of the head.”
Thankfully these days, McLean said, “We know how to talk to each other.”
90s Con is taking place March 28-30 at the Connecticut Convention Center.
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