Lance Bass has no problem saying “Bye, Bye, Bye” to Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was arrested last week on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. The former NSYNC member revealed on Wednesday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live that he “never liked” Combs.
Since the rapper opened up for NSYNC’s final tour, host Andy Cohen wondered if Bass had ever attended one of his infamous parties, where Combs allegedly forced women into engaging in “sex acts with male commercial sex workers,” according to the indictment obtained by Us Weekly. Celebrities like Khloé Kardashian and Ashton Kutcher have previously spoken about attending Combs’ parties, though it’s unknown if they were present at the so-called “Freak Offs.”
“No, I never had time to go to a Diddy party,” Bass told Cohen. “I forgot he had opened up our last tour until all this kind of came about. But yeah it’s kinda horrible.”
Bass admitted that he “never liked” Combs because of a conversation he overheard between him and Justin Timberlake the night of their final NSYNC show.
“I overheard him talking to Justin being like, ‘You need to drop these effers. You need to go solo. You need to drop these,'” Bass recalled. “I was like, ‘I don’t like you anymore, Diddy.’ I’m like, ‘At my own show? What the hell!’ So I never liked him.”
Cohen took the opportunity to joke that Bass “will not be hearing from Diddy about that.”
“He’s got bigger problems than Lance Bass slagging him off on Watch What Happens Live,” he playfully added. “The gloves are off!”
When they returned from the commercial break, Cohen revealed to the audience that there was more to the story than Bass initially said.
“By the way, Lance said during the break the Diddy conversation was even worse than he said,” Cohen explained, to which Bass confessed, “I edited it a little bit.”
Watch What Happens Live airs Sunday through Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.
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