Lance Bass may have officially come out in 2006, but the former *NSYNC singer says he actually told Britney Spears that he was gay two years before going public.
The 40-year-old made the revelation during an appearance onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,telling the hostthat Spears became one of the first few people to know about his sexuality following her extremelyshort-lived first marriage to Jason Alexander back in January 2004.
“It was the night that she got married the first time in Vegas to Jason. So I went up to Vegas to kind of see the craziness that was happening. And she was a little upset once she realized what she had done because, you know, it was a funny thing,” Bass said of Spears’ first marriage, which was annulled just 55 hours later. “And then she started, like, really crying and, like, she was so upset.”
“And so I took her to her room and we were sitting on her bed and she wouldn’t stop crying, so I was like, ‘I’m gay,'” Bass continued. “And it made her stop crying… She chuckled.”