Lance Bass (screen capture)During an appearance on The Jess Cagle Show, out former boy-bander Lance Bass of *NSYNC says one of the worst misconceptions about about he and his bandmates was “people thinking we were rich, because we were not.”
“We were famous, but we were not rich,” said the 43-year-old. “I made way more money after *NSYNC than I did during *NSYNC.”
As many know today, Lou Pearlman – the music manager who created not only *NSYNC but other boybands including the Backstreet Boys and LFO – died in prison at age 62 in 2016 after pulling off an enormous $300 million Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.
Pearlman was eventually sued by a number of his former acts for what they said were unfair contracts and financial mismanagement.
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“He really took a majority of all of our stuff… [made] horrible, horrible deals,” said Bass.
But, Bass isn’t bitter about the past. He shared that being in a band, as opposed to being a solo artist, afforded him a “great support system.”
He told Cagle “to do that with those guys it was incredible and you had some of the best experiences ever. I mean obviously changed my life, led me to so many things I wanted to do in life.”
Watch below.