Lance Bass has yet to reestablish contact with Britney Spears — and it isn’t for lack of trying. “Not at all,” he told Page Six in a May 31 report. The NSYNC alum believes Spears isn’t aware he has been trying to reach her, suspecting she may still be subjected to isolating techniques applied during her conservatorship. “It’s just, you know, there’s a wall around her,” he said. “And for some reason, those people don’t want her old friends involved with her life.”
In court, witnesses described the different tactics employed by the conservators to prevent Spears from maintaining friendships, as per The Guardian. This isn’t the first time Bass speaks up about being prevented from talking to Spears. “I haven’t spoken to her in years. We’ve been kept away from each other for quite a while,” Bass said on the “Heather Dubrow’s World” podcast in July 2021 (via Billboard).
Spears and Bass have been close since the 1990s, when both dominated the pop scene. In fact, Spears was one of the first to learn he was gay, two years before he came out publicly in 2006. Bass shared his truth with her after she married Jason Alexander in 2004, a decision she regretted and had annulled hours later. “She wouldn’t stop crying, so I was like, ‘I’m gay,’ and it made her stop crying … She chuckled,” Bass said on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” in 2019.