ASHLEE SIMPSON - CARTER APOLOGISES TO SIMPSON

CARTER APOLOGISES TO SIMPSON

LATEST: BACKSTREET BOY NICK CARTER has apologised to pop star ASHLEE SIMPSON for going public with the claim he slept with her while he was still dating PARIS HILTON. Carter called RYAN SEACREST's Los Angeles radio show on Thursday morning (05OCT06) to declare he was sorry the information was accidentally made public by his brother AARON. Nick says he "hooked-up" with Simpson as an act of revenge against ex-girlfriend Hilton after he was told she cheated on him with CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY, while the two were filming horror movie HOUSE OF WAX in Australia. During the interview, Nick apologised to Simpson saying that he never meant "to throw her under the bus in the whole entire situation". After repeated apologies, he then told Seacrest that "this was one of those things that I wanted to keep under wraps... and then my brother kind of let the cat out of the bag". Carter claims he still has fond feelings for Simpson, but that it's another story when it comes to Hilton. He says, "Paris and her are two different people and Ashlee is a good person from what I know... and I'm not saying Paris is a bad person, but I'm saying she's got to work her problems out." Meanwhile, Simpson has slammed Carter's claims that the pair were intimate telling MSN, "No! That is so random. When I heard that, I was dying laughing."