‘My Big Fat Greek Weddg 2’: Joey Fatone Gay — How the Comg-Out Moment Came to Be – The Hollywood Reporter

Joey Fatone and Lance Bass brought their stunng athleticism to Battle of the Network Stars, and the two NSYNC stars relled the awkward moment that Fatone found out Bass was gay. "We were hangg out at a club one time," said Fatone, "and we went back to his hoe to hang out and party and drk some more. I passed out his gut bedroom. I woke up at, like, 3:00 or 4:00 the morng. I'm like, 'Damn. I got to go home.' So I went to go to his room. I knock on his door, I open up. And one of his 'iends' was stg on his lap." The story was all good fun and Fatone was sure to mentn that the two were fely not naked. Fatone said to them, "Uh, let me know when you're done," before shuttg the door and leavg. Although Fat9he had figured out Bass's secret he didn't out his iend bee Bass wanted to tell others his own time. In the 90s was a lot ls easy to be openly gay, pecially while the public eye, but lookg back, Bass might have changed a thg or two sayg, "If I was givg advice to my 16-year-old self, I would say, 'Go ahead and be yourself right now. Don't worry about what other people thk of you or what they say about you.' I wish I would have realized that I was gay at such a young age and been able to be fortable wh , to tell everyone, bee my experience wh NSYNC, I thk, would have been pletely different."