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Nick about girl...
"If you find somebody, and they bring you down, you're going flat on your face." Nick says. "There are a couple of times that I've really let myself get hurt." Before the Backstreet Boys' Black and blue tour, Nick fell for an up-and-coming singer. "I was like, this girl's really cool," Nick says. Then he starts talking more intensely. " I even flew her out to hang out with me before the tour started."
Nick pauses for a second. " But I found out the only reason she was with me was, she wanted to come on tour with us - with her group as opening act!" And the worst part of all was how Nick found this out: The girl's boyfriend called. That's right. She was using Nick and cheating on him. "I don't know what I was thinking," he adds. "It was messed up. I cared about her a lot. I hope she reads this someday-she knows who she is!" Nick wouldn't reveal the girl's identity (we tried): " Her name starts with a D-that's all I'll say." But we could tell Nick's still a little hurt by what this girl did to him, so we let him rant for a bit before changing the subject. "If you want to be with a person," Nick says, "You should like the way they are, not just who they are." He sighs: "That's such a waste of time!"
It wasn't the first time Nick fell hard and got hurt, of course. You've probably heard about his very-public break-up with long-time girlfriend Willa Ford in October 2000. They were living together; they even had dogs together. During that time, she was trying to get her own recording career off the ground, while he was trying to keep their relationship under wraps. " I'm pretty private," Nick says. " I don't like to expose too much about what's going on in my life when it comes to relationships because people start asking questions, and then everything about your life becomes open. But she always wanted me to tell everybody about us." When Willa got her own record deal, their relationship eventually fell apart. Nick's fans, thinking Willa was just using him, were outraged. They put up dozens of "I hate Willa Ford" Web sites with names like saynotowillaford.com and willafordsucks.com . But Nick never talked meanly about his ex. "When you talk about your relationship in the media, that's the reason a lot of bad stuff happens," he says. " I just don't talk about that stuff very much. People start to make assumptions. It's bad." Okay Nick. We can take a hint. Moving right along...
Nick tells us that he's been single for a years and a half, which we find kind of shocking, considering that he's totally romantic. After all, this is a guy who (like Leo in Titanic) likes to draw his girlfriends. " The face is everything," Nick tells us. " You can see the soul of a person in her eyes. That's what attracts me the most." We wanted to know what kind of girl Nick is looking for (just out of curiosity!). " I'm not picky," he says. " I've dated all different types of girls. As long as they have good heart, and they're cool inside, that's all that really matters to me." You might think that Nick is super-confident around girls, given that we know millions who are waiting for him to ask them out, but actually, Nick's a little rejection-phobic. " I'm a shy dude, " he says. " I like it when someone comes up to me. It's hard for me to go up to a girl and start a conversation. I know I'll get tongue-tied and say the wrong things." Aww!
Nick also let us know that he's in no rush to get back into a relationship right now. At this point in his life, he's finally happy to be on his own. "I'm doing stuff that I've been dying to do, and I'm loving it so much," he says. "And when it comes to women, if somebody comes along and understands what I'm doing and understands where I'm at, then that's cool. But I'm not out there looking like I use to be." He adds, " I used to think I needed to find somebody. You know, everybody's right when they say, "When you're looking you don't find it." So I'm just dating, and I'm so happy right now."
CosmoGirl, October 2002, p.118-120
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