Lance Bass of the legendary boy band *NSYNC, took to “Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen” and reignited a long-standing beef with Hip-Hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The sparks flew throughout an look marked by public jabs that illuminated previous wounds.
Bass, performing with JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Justin Timberlake from 1996 till *NSYNC went on hiatus in 2002, recounted a stinging insult from Combs that has lingered for years.
The strain originated from an overheard dialog the place Combs allegedly urged Timberlake to ditch his bandmates for solo success.
“I overheard him speaking to Justin being like, ‘You should drop these effers. You should go solo. You should drop these,’” Bass shared with Cohen. “I used to be like, ‘I don’t such as you anymore, Diddy.’ I’m like, ‘At my very own present? What the hell!’ So I by no means favored him.”
Including gasoline to the fireplace, Bass’s revelations arrived shortly after Combs was arrested on extreme costs reminiscent of intercourse trafficking and racketeering—allegations he firmly denies.
This timing gave Bass’s sentiments a sharper edge, with previous grievances now intertwined with present controversies.
Host Andy Cohen ramped up the depth, suggesting that Bass’s on-air feedback had been an edited model of an much more damning account.
“Lance mentioned through the (business) break the Diddy dialog was even worse than he mentioned,” Cohen revealed, main Bass to confess, “I edited it a bit bit.”
Diddy is at present within the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn for a RICO case that features intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to interact in prostitution.