technology innovation. on larry king now lance bass is relishing his second act it would be a dream of mine to do a country album one day but that's that would be an interesting market to try to break in the game and what is it like to hide something every day of your life it's tiring it's tiring it was until i was able to tell the world that i felt that that weight lifted there's a lot of celebrities in entertainment people i know that are are very scared of coming out and i understand exactly where they're coming from because the market still is half very homophobic and you know studios want to make that bottom line you keep in touch with the guys we have this group text that all five of us are on and we've had for about a few years now plus was there a hint that surprised you by by was actually a huge runaway hit that i that i didn't think it would be that big ever every

artist dreams of having that song that you turn on the radio and you get sick of it because you keep hearing it was that song all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now our special guest is lance bass you know him of course is one fifth of in-sync one of the most successful boy bands ever he's now host of a radio show called dirty pop and he has returned to the studio for the first time in twelve years as a solo artist lances also produced a documentary called mississippi i am so about the fight for gays civil rights in that famous southern state or infamous southern state as so might say you are from mississippi i have born raised in the city what city i was born along with that being and then when i was ten in the jackson area you say in the documentary that

you quote my whole life i knew that i was gay i knew what i was i knew i had to hide it i knew for the fact i would never tell anyone my. anti-life i would go to the grave with the secret why well you know growing up in a place like that you know one of the earliest memories i ever knew was that i was gay around five years old i knew myself and you know i just knew i was attracted to this boy in kindergarten then the girl and i knew that even at that age that that was wrong i knew that people made fun of gay people and that there was something wrong with me at that early age and i knew i had to hide it and make sure that he so did you and your teen years you go out with girls of course you know you know once i at once i knew that i would hit puberty and have to start dating girls that's what i knew would be a lot harder but you know i dated girls you know i had girlfriends all way up until i was you know twenty twenty one years old were you when you were in it was in sync formed in mississippi it wasn't we formed in orlando of all of us from different

places but we all formed in orlando and the other guys you never knew no one ever knew i'm sure they all suspected maybe but i think with every guy in your life you always kind of ask that question i could maybe get it i don't know so i'm sure they question it but it never was a topic of conversation it is obvious of esus of others but what are your thoughts what is it like. to hide something every day of your life it's tiring larry it's so tiring. you know and when you wake up every day and it is so crazy how it evolves throughout your life so when you're younger you wake up every day you know praying to god please change me please change me then you start accepting that this won't change this will change and then once you start feeling better about yourself and meeting other gay people then you're like well i actually like myself this way so it's crazy the evolution that you go through as a kid to an adult and being gay and how did you have secret affairs. i mean there were definitely i mean it was there were definitely secret relationship. you know

my first three boyfriends were all just a secret to me and then my little inner circle my family didn't know no one like knew that but you know i came out to my personal you know close friends when i was going out in sync i came out to members of in sync little later on when i was about twenty five years old they handle it they were fine i mean they they don't care at all no a lot of told me love people who when they come out are shocked by the fact that one. they have free and they feel more hundred tons better as a view weight completely lifted off i mean it is amazing how better you feel after you are able to tell the world and even you know when i came out earlier just to my friends that felt good but it was until i was able to tell the world that i felt that that weight lifted you the first pub started to moan i don't think so no came up before. my little. ricky was after you know this i came out and publicly in two

thousand and six i was still something new which is really weird to say because it's only two thousand and fourteen but. done six it was still new to everyone oh you got this documentary how far along has mississippi come mississippi is actually it's we've come a long way just in the last few years. is of acceptance it is you know a hostile area for you know i mean everything from racism to homophobia and and every story that i hear coming out of mississippi is always a negative story if it's you know about obesity about race is about homophobia lowest education if there's you know it it's sad and this is the state i love i mean i still call mississippi home this is where my family and friends live and i'm just kind of fed up with how a lot of people are still backwards thinking and it's not everyone and that's what i've realized when i go home i don't get any negativity at all i mean i get everyone loves when i'm home and evelyn when i go out to restaurants or that they

you know they take pictures of everything but no one i mean everything negative you go public you know you you have a boyfriend i do have a field say right now i'm going to get married i am you public with him in mississippi everyone knows we're together we you know i'm not a big p.t.a. guy anyway so i'm not going to be you know kissing people in public and holding hands that stuff i would feel comfortable doing that anyway if i wanted to but you know there's it's that certain it's an older generation mississippian as we were growing up we always were taught respect your elders respect your elders and i think that's why it's such a slow change in the south is because we respect our elders so much that you don't want to try to teach them a new lesson of acceptance you consider yourself a christian i do i still consider myself a christian i think my faith has really expanded a lot throughout the years really it has. a i now and when you're more aware of especially different religions i like to study all types of things so i i'm not

going to be ignorant off to think that ok everything that i knew as a kid it was taught in my religion was that is the exact thing that is right i know that's probably not true so i am just open minded about everything i'm not a loser scholar but i don't believe christ ever discuss you know he did not know he didn't and i think that's a. another big confusing thing with southern people is the misinterpretation of the bible what do i see in the documentary i go with i think we're going to show the clip again in the next segment it all happened with constance and mil and she was the girl that didn't get to go to her prom and mississippi because she wanted to take her girlfriend and since stead of handling it. rightly the school board canceled the whole problem for everyone which was just the worst thing to do so the kids in mississippi decided they wanted to throw a second chance prom and invite anyone and everyone that missed their prom for any reason and so they threw this amazing prom all these l.g. t. cute kids got to comment had the best time i think cameras down i went there i just

wanted to see what the temperature was in my home state with bt it was incredible and so we found these amazing kids that are standing their ground not moving away like most people say ok if i when i grow up moving to l.a. but they stood their ground there teaching people to expand their minds right things are changing when i heard about the mississippi safe schools coalition and about the second chance program i wanted to do anything i could to help out. a lance ito which i don't really live from are all thrown born yeah fifteen years ago i could never imagine coming together and being this hour like this is a story this is amazing and just to come to mississippi and see this happening are going to change so many people's minds and it's me such a positive awesome event and i can't wait to see that these kids put together an incredible event where they're inviting anyone and everyone that felt like they didn't get to go to their prom for any reason this is their second chance to do it

right that was a clip from the lenses documentary mississippi i am one can we all see it now it just released on i tunes and all those platforms last week. you think mine's a changing quickly at mississippi quicker than i ever thought they would i would say that is quickly changing but faster than i ever thought it would and you'll see in this documentary too it's the generations to one of the girls in the dock answered her grandmothers in it and and it just reminds me of so many people that i know in mississippi that it comes from so much love and a little i don't understand it i might not agree with it but i love you just the same it's not me to judge being b.b. do you think you'd be a country singer always i always thought i'd be a country singer but i still love country you know i pop music landed in my lap and i was sixteen years old with in sync and i absolutely love it but of course i still have that twain that comes out when i sing and i mean it would be a dream of mine to do a country album one day but that's that would be an interesting market to try to

break as a gay man if you think we'll see a gay country star oh we definitely will in fact we have we just didn't know it you know i'm i know a lot of country things that are that are gay and some of been found out some lost their record deals because of it but you know very soon you'll will be able to see one break you said did you lied to protect others because it was celebrities that i did i mean there's a lot of celebrities in entertainment people i know that are are very scared of coming out and i understand exactly where they're coming from because you know this business is all about making money you know and and a lot you know the market still is that. half very homophobic and you know studios want to make that bottom line tell me about your first single moment told it is still is it wasn't was it quote it's called walking on air and i'm so happy with it you know i i've been looking for that debut single for a few years now i want to get back in the studio just nothing really resonated with me and this song came from this guy and he's came out of australia and i listen to

the song i fell in love with it i said this is the song after do and there's a growing. song with me bella blue who is absolute credible twenty one year old that is going to be a superstar and i'm just so honored that this is my first single to kind of get my feet wet back into music you always been a group or have you previously sun single i never really did any solo work before in-sync i had a couple of solos you know with choirs and that type of stuff but i've always been the bass man in all the groups i've ever been you know on the bass so i'm a little on all of you on my show a c n n that was a lot of fun had you shot did justin timberlake success not shocked at all oh my gosh you knew he'd be is it oh definitely you know i don't know i mean there was something about justin that we saw even and as a little kid i mean he's been in the business since he was you know eight years old and he just has this determination to just better him self and better himself and

you saw that i got to watch it you know the whole years of in sync him just completely just studying his craft and trying to grow as an artist and it was it was amazing to watch but he left in sync that i met we you met and i mean i was disappointed that we didn't get to do another album i would have loved to have been able to know that this is my last tour this is my last song this is my last i would've i would have really reveled in it a little more because we were just so busy we're just on to the next thing i did he didn't even know that his solo stuff was going to blow up like it did when he went off to do solo we all were very excited for him because we were going to take a six month break i needed a little vacation and he wanted to do a solo album and we were very supportive of it he had no idea blow up like that so even if you ask him i think he probably thought that there would be at least one other in-sync album you keep in touch with because of course i mean we're when you do something like that especially at an early age you know in the years we had

together. we were a group for eight years i believe to justin oh yeah i mean we every week we have this group text. that all five of us are on and we've had for about a few years now and at least once a week we're always texting funny things to each other how did he react to your coming up with justin's reaction i think was like well. i mean i think he knew i think all the guys knew at that point that because i really was a high net at that point you know we had been. on hiatus for a few years and i had a boyfriend i was in love with and i would bring him around a lot and i just i wasn't being i was being very candid with my relationship and i do miss in-sync of course i miss a lot about coming together for a reunion i made it would be great we just performed at the m.t.v. awards last year and it was just that was it was incredible and i wouldn't but justin would like i like justin is needed i bet he would go for that i don't know i mean he's i think he's focused on his solo stuff right now it's going to be very

hard because you know put in another in sync album together would take quite a while when do you think you'll do it in album i don't know larry it's weird because now it's just a singles market like they say so i don't even know if i'll ever do a full length album i love that you can just release the music you like and not worry about album fillers because even with the old in sync albums there were a few songs like gosh i wish people could hear that song but they called album fillers and no one will ever hear up next lance and i share a common childhood dream and talk about what it was up to the break.

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i. i. put back with lance bass who allegedly didn't want to be a pop star he wanted to be what i always wanted to be honest and i was five years old a radio personality you better believe that you want to be on the air did you know i like lashing i love in the eighty's i grew up listening to my dad's wolfman jack records and you will do well i just and that's what i wanted to be so i would pretend i had my own radio show and of course that was during that the tape days so did the same thing you know you would record it and wait for the commercial get over on the request d.j. on the rate of like can you play the song in a certain time so i mean there's something i always love i love a countdown show to it's love counting down my favorite song tell me about dirty pop. dirty pop is my radio show that i'm just so proud of a few years ago serious i said would you ever do

a talk show with us and i was like i there's no way i would have time to do that there's no way and so we tested out as a weekly show and now we do a daily show monday through friday at two hours live i love you do know new york is serious we were met when i lived in new york that's where we started it but now we've built a studio in my house so i get to go my bare feet and and do a little i ear on. well it's total talk so we play a little music here and there but it's all pop culture you know i'm a pop talk culture junkie i live for it i lived through it so you know sort of what do you interview people and every day we have different celebrity guests to have different celebrity co-host with me we go over the pop culture stories of the day it's a little politic. so the example of pop culture that's well i mean whatever miley cyrus is doing today that is pretty much what we're talking about we like to also educate our audience too because we're on two different networks we're on the only gay radio station on sirius x.m. and we're on women's network two that is now stars one of six so i have two

completely different markets listening and it's great for them to come together just in on you know it just is the only member that has not been on the show yet that it's hard to get him in the room but yeah i mean he's the he's the last one that has not done the show you have to the calls you to called yes that's why i love live that is own of them because you know the thing beats live what do you think of one direction by the way this generation is in sync oh i would i mean no one competes with them these days so i guess that they would be this generation's and say i think they're talented talented lads and i'm told that is going to produce a special on you a wedding why you televise your wedding you're making yourself your own pop culture through you know it's something that i think the world needs to see. you know i you know gay marriage is just legal in just a few states right now and i think it's really important to be visible as as a gay person and and especially as a couple my fiance and i we love being able to walk a red carpet together and as

a kid you know growing up if i would have seen a gay couple on television that i could've dream saying oh my gosh i could have that one day because growing up i didn't have anyone to look up to so that's why i want to be so visible for these kids in middle america that feel like they're the only gay in town like i felt i want them to be able to see something and be able to dream big when's the wedding what i mean next year around february we're going to air the special around valentine's day you go to tape of me tapes no i'm producing this and so i'm going to film it and we're going to show the lead up to it because the thing is we're still two guys getting married and two guys. really hard to plan a wedding and so it's there's a lot of humor coming out of this because we have no idea what we knew as the fussier that none of us that they were it were just two guys and and that's what's funny about this special it is funny and we have both parents going to be there know both parents we how does your fiance do he's an artist an amazing artist in

fact he had his first big gallery showing last week that's why we were just thought of you meet we met at a birthday party and palm springs and what was great about this relationship was we started out as best friends first i didn't even know he was gay at first so i mean i quickly found out he was gay and then i had an attraction from so much and i said there's no way he likes me so i knew i had to become best friends with them so i could get over that attraction quick but then a month later it grew and grew into something a lot bigger do you want to adopt kids i would love to adopt one i want to have my own also we have we've already discussed this we're definitely family people we we want kids so. it's a certainty so we're going to have one of mine will have one of his and then when they're probably a little older i would love to adopt a kid that is a little bit older because adoption to me is something big you hosted the miss usa oh you judge that misjudged me like that i did i did miss america one jet i did not

like it or i did miss america this year also so i guess unlike the official pageant judge i didn't like. the prelims annoying to go well it's different now because i heard when you all did it you spent like a week doing it is we it was just one day so it's much easier oh get miss usa it was easy to get if we just judge the last twenty in and miss usa is easy too because you know most of pageants are about education and really get to know the girl but miss usa is the only passion that it's all about looks that is it for the world peace know looking. ok we have some social media questions for you at team lance tweets mississippi i am is getting wonderful reviews and awards for the festivals the response is it better than the h.b.o. . the response is way better than i expected i didn't know how many people would be interested in watching a documentary about mississippi and being gay you know it is kind of a nice market but with all the news that's been coming out just recently about just gays in the south it really is a perfect time to go wide appeal. divi

a twitter what would you say to people still living in the south trying to find a place to fit in yeah. you know if you're able to be take you in the south. one thing is just always telling that person that you trust if you keep it inside yourself it's going to fester and really it's going to be terrible for you so find that that family member that best friend that you can trust that you can just get it out in the open even if you have to call the trevor project but that's the first step you need to make is just admitting it to yourself and telling that person say ripping a band-aid off. in that the hardest thing to be is trained search will. be moving in the wrong body reliving it you know being transgender these you know it's something that even it's hard for me to understand because i you know i just not transgender so but these kids have such a hard life and you know see these kids that you know like i said i knew i was five years old and you see these five six year olds that just know they're in a different body etc was incredible to watch at liam grantham once you know how you

feel about still being referred to as in sings lance bass i will always be in sings lance bass and that's something i'm very proud of you know we worked our butts off you know to make that as big as we possibly could so i'm glad to always be referred to as in sync last linley two thousand tweets other plans to do a follow up with the people in the documentary just see what's changed since you filmed the great idea and in something already thought about when did you film we film the sea we read about four years ago and it's just now coming out so these kids that were seventeen eighteen are now adults and just graduating college and and i would love to catch up with these kids and i've kept in touch. with the ones in the film but i think people would be very surprised to see how these kids are doing right now we want to finish now with a little game called if you only knew our first person you kissed and i bet it was a girl because you were not tending then yeah well the first girl i always say kiss it was in kindergarten and it was my little girl friend bethany now you know i mean

i was. not really i don't know where she's at these days what keeps you up at night everything my brain doesn't shut off i mean i am always creating i do all my writing at night with film and television and music so my brain's always just coming out i was up on no where do you live i call all l.a. home these days. and then sings song you thought would be a hit that wasn't. there's a song called it makes me ill and i wanted to release it so bad it was on my favorite songs off the album we just didn't get to make it to that song on that album was there a hit that surprised you by buying was actually a huge runaway hit that i that i didn't think it would be that big ever every artist dreams of having that song that you turn on the radio and you get sick of it because you keep hearing it about it was that song you're stranded on a desert island what three things you want with you oh my gosh i got to be in people or views that or any of my fiance there of course. and i need

my d.v.r. because i am addicted to television i admit it i watch every show on television so my d.v.r. my fiance and i had to have my dogs yeah proudest moment. i think finishing my cosmonaut training that was the hardest thing i've ever done and i want to live my cosmonaut training that little cause larry yes i want to not an astronaut no i went to russia so go away did you dream. bigger and center and i was going to go to doc outside moscow why i was doing a they wanted the youngest person to go to space and so they chose me. albeit i was twenty five four at the time. how long we have there i was there for seven months and i did a whole program and i knew a lot of cause when i was spit terrific they're the same as astronauts they were just boarders they had very individualistic it was something i never i mean my my dreams in the world were you know astronaut you know radio hosts you know and

singer i didn't think i had a chance meeting about ash and i was one thing i always thought i could maybe do their egos the lions of s. cause we're not gay because we're not oh i would love this. yes this would be a great moment biggest misconception about you biggest misconception oh i don't know i don't really like to read in the comments or anything so i keep that very well there's a wall in between people's opinions of me i just like to do what i do and not worry about what he did the inseam doesn't have a nickname for you a lot of them actually one day was because they got adam's apple so they always called me to. thank him and get this if they do see again that thanks to my guest lance bass mississippi i am is available on i tunes as is his new single walking on the ed remember you can find me on twitter with kingsley news now c.n.n. .

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