Lance Bass has revealed he felt 'bullied' into publicly
revealing he was gay after a 'malicious' campaign by Perez Hilton.
The former *NSYNC star has opened up about how he was forced
into coming out in 2006, not only to his friends and family, but to his fans,
by the celebrity blogger.
Talking about his run-ins with the 36-year-old - whose
notorious stint on Celebrity Big Brother prompted him to be dubbed 'Britain's
most hated man' - Lance tells Attitude magazine: 'Two years before I came out I
was really bullied on the internet by bloggers, that’s when Perez Hilton just
started and was just really malicious against me.
So, because of the bloggers like him hounding me, all the
other magazines started calling me and saying, “Look, we know you’re gay, you
can write the story with or without us, but we have to write it,” I decided to
go with People [magazine] and I think they did a great job.
'I had 24 hours to decide if I was going to come out or not,
and within 24 hours it was on the stands.
The singer - who is now married to partner Michael Turchin,
27 - admits that he was terrified that being honest about his sexuality during
his pop heyday would alienate their young fan base.
He adds: 'I had a lot of pressures on me at that point. Not
only was I keeping the secret from my family, but I also had this career with
four of my best friends. I knew, in the late 1990s/early 2000s, that if I came
out, people would hate *NSYNC, and that would be the end of our career.
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