Former 'NSyncer Lance Bass says he
forgives anti-gay comments made by Juan Pablo Galavis, star of the
ABC reality series The Bachelor.
“I don't hate him at all,” the
openly gay Bass said “I still think he's cute.”
The 32-year-old former Venezuelan
soccer star said last week that he would be opposed to the dating
reality show featuring a gay or bisexual bachelor looking for love.
“I don't think it is a good example
for kids to watch that on TV,” Galavis said.
The single dad noted that he has many
gay friends and co-workers. But Galavis was also quoted as saying
that gays were “more pervert, in a sense.”
Galavis later apologized, saying that
he respects gay people and blamed a language barrier for his poor
word choice.
“Of course it's disappointing,
because you don't want someone who [you] actually love to have those
thoughts,” Bass, 34, told
the AP at the Sundance Film Festival taking place in Park City,
Utah.
“When you grow up in a place like
that, you get brainwashed into thinking that way, you know, you can't
help what you grow up with. … I mean, I grew up in Mississippi, so
I know how people can get brainwashed into thinking really, really
awful things. So hopefully, he will learn from this and get
educated.”
(Related: Lance
Bass: Fiance Michael Turchin “knocked my socks off!”)