Boyband singer Lance Bass revealed he was sexually harassed and inappropriately touched by a paedophile during his ‘N Sync days.
The singer was taking part as a panellist on daytime chatshow The Meredith Vieira Show, when the conversation turned to recent allegations by Ashley Judd, claiming she was sexually harassed by a studio executive.
The 36-year old said:
“It happens to men, too. It’s a two-way street. It happened to me when I was 16 or 17 years old: When we started there was someone that we worked with that was inappropriately touching us.”
Lance, second from the left, with his former bandmates ‘N Sync
While Bass didn’t name his offender, he did say he knew ‘something felt odd’ about the incidents:
“I was even aware then, at 16, that this guy was a paedophile and he was touching me oddly. But I didn’t feel victimized at the time because I was very aware of it.”
“With the guys, we would talk about it; we would kind of joke about it. But it’s not a joking thing,” he added.
“But as a kid, it was just odd. I’m glad that we were aware of it, and we didn’t feel victimized at the time.”
H/T People
