Lance Bass is opening up about being “inappropriately touched” by an older male back when he was a member of ‘NSYNC.
“When I was 16, 17,” Bass said on his Sirius XM radio show Dirty Pop, “someone we worked with definitely was touching me inappropriately.”
He continued, “I even knew at 16 and 17 that, you know, this isn’t right. No man should be, like, touching a teenager like this.”
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Bass, who did not reveal the identity of the man, claimed the older guy would “find ways” to touch him, usually by offering massages.
“He always did the whole thing, like, ‘Oh yeah, if I massage your bicep like this, it will look better,’ ” he recalled.
But he maintains he was not molested.
“There was nothing more than inappropriate touching,” he said.
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Bass went on to say that ultimately he “felt bad” for the man, who he believes was a pedophile.
“I kind of felt for the guy at the time because, one, I was in the closet and obviously this guy, probably, was in the closet,” he said. “I always felt bad. Like, aww this guy is just a sad person.”
“This is a serious thing, sexual harassment,” he concluded, “but I was lucky enough to be smart about it and just be aware.”
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Tomoe Hotaru
It was probably Lou Pearlman’s triflin ass
Cam
It was most likely Lou Pearlman, the guy who created Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, O’Town, and others. Vanity Fair and Huffington Post wrote about him being after young boys years ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/02/new-report-boy-band-guru-_n_66734.html
Sand Nierenberg
Everyone comes out with this years later I think just to stay relevant in the news
Carlos Robledo
Shocking !!!! Ok next topic ….. Lol
Todd Hef Klein
So Lou felt him up. Lous dead, move on.
bicurious
I’m sorry but what reasonably good looking gay boy hasn’t been “inappropriately touched” at one point? Goodness knows it happened to me plenty of times from professors in college, to managers at my high school job, to the shampoo boy at the hair salon I went to.
Bob LaBlah
Oh queen please. The day they STOP touching/looking/lusting at you inappropriately would be the day to worry in my opinion. I bet at that age he looked at other guys in the school gym shower inappropriately himself (Bass).
If it bothered him that bad why didnt he simply tell the guy he wasn’t interested or tell some one who could have put a stop to it?
Bisexual-Transwoman
@Tomoe Hotaru: Of course it was. That guy is disgusting and creepy I am not sure why the boy banders and the guys he used that thought he was going to make them famous did not go to the police?
Desert Boy
Was it a Catholic priest?
Justin Weeks
Id inappropriately touch him to
Andrew Button
Zero sympathy shown is appalling
Billy Budd
A massage is innapropriate only if the genitals are touched. Otherwise it is OK.
Steven Burr
SO?
Shanestud
Every month D-List “celebrity” Lance Bass attempts to get any kind of media attention. Next time it will be a press release about a serious hang nail that brought him to the ER. His only career since MSYNC has been appearing in Tabloid news clips or on gay blogs. It gets very tired after a while.
Russ Carpenter
Oh Hail No !! Theres no way you could have know what he was up to.
woodin
So Lance still thinks it’s better not to expose this guy, so he can molest other boys?? Really Lance?
Isn’t the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts of America guilty of concealing predators????
Wooly
Oh Lance dear, you’ll get over it. Christ what next? I can’t stand this victim mentality.
Bernice Jenkins
“Bass went on to say that ultimately he “felt bad” for the man, who he believes was a pedophile.”
I am so sick of the stupidity of people and them making such ignorant and inaccurate statements. First of all Lance, if the was a pedophile he would not of had any sort of interest in you at that age at all. Educate yourself. If anything he would of been either a Hebephile or an Ephebophile. Hebephilia is the strong and persistent adult sexual interest in pubescent (early adolescent) individuals, typically ages 11–14. It differs from ephebophilia, which is the strong and persistent sexual interest to those in later adolescence, approximately 15–19 years old and differs from pedophilia, which is the primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
ingyaom
When I read “Lance Bass” and “inappropriate touching” I assumed it had been a female.
Blackceo
Good grief some of y’all are cold blooded. Just no sympathy whatsoever. I mean I can be cold blooded in many ways but some of y’all take it to levels way beyond me.
Bisexual-Transwoman
@Bernice Jenkins: If he and the other teenagers were underage why didn’t they go to the police or tell their parents?
Joe
I was thinking Pearlman as well. He was a disgusting troll.
JessPH
Just inappropriate touching? I doubt that. I bet that hog fat Lou Pearlman got to taste all of his boybanders. The casting couch very much exists in the music industry as well.
martinbakman
Isn’t a pedophile one that lusts after youngsters? If Lance was already 16, that would be a sexual predator, right? Like a Catholic priest and such.
takingliberties
Sounds really hot.
Ronnyboy
@Andrew Button: Oh noes. She was touched on da biceps. Horrific I says. See some of us are sympathetic and shit.
Ronnyboy
@martinbakman: It’s technically ephebophilia. Lots of Hollywood producers and Directors are too. Think Brian Singer or Lance Black.
Cam
Any time Bass has had an opportunity to help anybody or do some good for the community he seems to fail.
First he talks about how hot some of those anti-gay bigots are, and now here he is talking about some serial molester and yet won’t of course say who the guy is.
God forbid he say something that could possibly help one of the multitude of kids the guy might have molested who don’t have the money or fame to laugh it out. He wasn’t going to rape Bass because Bass’s group was a goldmine, what about kids who auditioned for him? Maybe he has relatives with kids?
Look what happened with Bill Cosby when a few people finally spoke up.
Laugh it off Bass, just another example of how useless you seem to be.
Glücklich
“Inappropriately touched.” Psshhh.
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/6998726
onthemark
Also, Lance crossed his eyes once when he was a teenager, and they stayed that way.
@Todd Hef Klein: Lou Pearlman is not dead. He’s in prison. No, not for that!
The “obese, oleaginous” Pearlman is “serving a 25-year sentence for defrauding banks and investors in Ponzi schemes” (says The Atlantic, Oct. 2015).
Poncho Sanchez
According to Lance’s interview in the Orlando Sentinel, he was never touched inappropriately by Lou Pearlman:
“Although a recent Vanity Fair piece contained lurid details about Pearlman’s alleged sexual advances toward young wanna-be pop stars, (Lance) doesn’t allude to such behavior. “I never saw anything like that with Lou,” Bass says. “Even at 16, I knew there was something fishy about him, but he never made us feel uncomfortable.”
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2007-10-23/news/bass23_1_lance-bass-justin-timberlake-stage-door
Cam
@Poncho Sanchez: That article was from years ago, and Lance’s entire M.O. has been to insinuate without ever saying anything. He probably has a little list of things he can say every few months to get his name in the press.
sportsguy1983
The headline should read ” Lance BAss misses the attention from when he had fame”