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.