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Backstreet Boy Nick Carter admits he partied too much.

carter-979Last spring Carter experienced minor chest pains and fatigue while on tour in Europe. It scared him. After returning home he went to a cardiologist who told him he had cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart muscle.

The night before he got his results he panicked. “I went out and just went nuts,” he admitted. “I drank so much and I did a bunch of blow. I felt like I was trying to kill myself because I didn’t want to get the results.”

Carter says his drinking and drugging was out of control for 10 years. In that time he ballooned up to 224 pounds, rendered himself a DUI, and was involved in a bar brawl. But nothing stopped him until he learned about his heart. That’s when, he says, he decided to change his life.

“I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be that person people read about and think, ‘That’s sad that he couldn’t stop it and killed himself.’”

Carter’s current weight? 167 lbs.

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