Lance Bass and Danielle Fishel Making a Film About Their Pre-Coming Out ’90s Romance

Throughout an episode of Fishel’s Pod Meets World podcast, the “Boy Meets World” alum revealed that she and the *NSYNC star are engaged on growing a film about their relationship and their promenade expertise previous to Bass’ popping out.

The 2 dated from 1999 to 2000, years earlier than Bass got here out as homosexual on the duvet of PEOPLE in July 2006.

“Lance and I are literally engaged on a film about our love story and about our promenade expertise,” Fishel stated. “I dated Lance for a couple of yr whereas I used to be on ‘Boy Meets World.’ It was my senior yr, and Lance got here with me to my highschool promenade.”

In response to the previous teen flames, writers Lauren Lapkis and Marie Holland are engaged on a script based mostly on how Fishel and Bass met and fell in love within the late ’90s. The 2 first crossed paths after *NSYNC taped a stay particular in 1999 that aired after Fishel’s “Boy Meets World.” On the time, Bass prodded his bandmate Justin Timberlake to ask for her telephone quantity and the remainder is historical past.

The 41-year-old admitted on her podcast that she thought she and Bass would ultimately get married however “it seems I am not Lance’s sort.”

“I had envisioned our future,” she stated. “I held on for hope for approach too lengthy that we have been going to get again collectively and get married and have a household.”

Fishel additionally opened up about what went down throughout promenade evening.

“Lance and I had a resort room booked and I had a imaginative and prescient for what that evening was going to be, and Lance was very nervous about what my imaginative and prescient for that evening was going to be,” she stated. “That’s the evening Lance talks about, the place he felt like he was hurting me by not being trustworthy with himself or anybody else about what was occurring in his life so it was type of the impetus for him to say, ‘I’ll finish our relationship.'”

Although Danielle might have been disenchanted, Lance described promenade evening as a turning level for him when it comes to discovering his sexuality.

“The rationale we needed to make this promenade story into a movie, I believe so many individuals can relate to that story,” he defined. “So many individuals within the LGBT neighborhood, their promenade evening was the evening they have been like, ‘Oh, wait a minute. This will’t occur anymore.’ This was the catalyst for me that made me begin to settle for myself, which took a very long time after that, however that was positively the primary little straw that broke.”

Lance went on to marry his husband Michael Turchin in 2014 and welcomed twins in October 2021. Fishel, in the meantime, was married to Tim Belusko from 2013-2016, earlier than tying the knot with Jensen Karp in 2018. She and Karp even have two kids.