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Lance BassandDanielle Fishelare reliving their teen romance on the big screen.
The pair revealed that they’re working on a movie about their young love and going to prom together, as Bass, 43, caught up with Fishel, 41, on herPod Meets Worldpodcast with her fellowBoy Meets WorldalumsWill FriedleandRider Strong.
“Lance and I are actually working on a movie about our love story and about our prom experience,” she said, noting thatLauren LapkusandMary Hollandare penning the script.
“For those of you who don’t know, I dated Lance for about a year while I was onBoy Meets World,” Fishel explained. “It was my senior year, and Lance came with me to my high school prom.”
Fishel recounted meeting Bass when she interviewed*NSYNCfor a TGIF live special on ABC. Although they hit it off, he was too nervous to ask for her number and sent his wingmanJustin Timberlaketo ask for him.
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She later joined the group on tour when she had breaks from the show, also visiting his family in Mississippi for Christmas.
“Lance and I had a very wonderful, very warm, loving relationship but it was completely lacking of intimacy — intimacy in the romantic sense,” Fishel explained, adding: “I held on for hope for way too long that we were going to get back together and get married and have a family. … It turns out I’m not Lance’s type.”
Basspublicly came out as gayin 2006 when he appeared on the cover of PEOPLE, but he recalls the high school romance as helping him discover his identity.
“The reason we wanted to make this prom story into a film, I think so many people can relate to that story,” he said. “Where I think so many people in the LGBT community, their prom night was the night they’re like, ‘Oh, wait a minute. This can’t happen anymore. I can’t do this anymore.’
“So, this was the catalyst for me that made me start to accept myself, which took a long time after that, but that was definitely the first little straw that broke,” Bass added.
Fishel noted that the prom-night tradition of getting a hotel room proved to be too much for her date. “I had a vision for what that night was going to be, and Lance was very nervous about what my vision for that night was going to be,” she recalled.
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The pair broke up two weeks later, with Bass chalking it up to the distance. He later came out to Fishel in 2000.
Bass has sincetied the knotwithMichael Turchin, with whom he shares 10-month-old twinsViolet Betty and Alexander James. Fishel shares sonsAdler Lawrence, 3, andKeaton Joseph, 1, with husband Jensen Karp, whom shemarriedin 2018.
source: people.com
