Lance Bass on life if he had never come out & married his ex-girlfriend: “I would be so bored”

I think about where my life would have been, and especially being a closeted person in a state like Mississippi. Like, how long would it have taken me to realize who I was? Would I have been that type of person to just kind of try to ignore those feelings and actually marry that girlfriend of mine?

I knew at that moment [going to Orlando to audition for ‘NSYNC for the first time], like, holy crap, I don’t think I’m going back to Mississippi.

I don’t know how far I would have taken living in a place like [Mississippi], and not being a part of a business like entertainment, where it was so easy to be yourself and to be free.

I think about that all the time, and I think entertainment saved me, like, saved my life. I would be so bored.

Lance Bass speaking to Us Weekly about what his reality may have been like had he stayed closeted in Mississipppi.