Nick Carter recently opened up to Ellen on the ‘Ellen DeGeneres show’ about his battle with drugs and alcohol and what it’s been like for him.

“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.”

Drugs “kind of came later in life,” Carter continues. “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.”

“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 says keeping a healthy lifestyle played a big role in his recovery.

“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.”

Nick was also diagnosed with a hear condition cardiomyopathy in which the muscles in the heart weaken.

“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,”

Nick says that he wouldn’t have been able to get sober or recover without the support and help which he received and taking the initiative to make his life better for himself.
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The recently married for 6 months Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have been denying rumors for months now that she and husband are expecting their first child.

In a recent interview with Ellen Mariah spoke about her life after marriage and how Nick is an absolutely wonderful husband.

Mariah managed to arouse suspicion however when she turned down the celebratory champagne that Ellen offered her (by the way this was Ellen’s test to see if the superstar was pregnant).

Mariah simply tried to cover up for not tasting the bubbly by blaming it on the fact that it was too early in the morning and that she was watching her figure.

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