Lance Bass 'hopes Perez Hilton changes'

Lance Bass has said that he hopes Perez Hilton is serious in his commitment to stop "bullying" celebrities.

The former 'N Sync singer, who recently admitted that he had bullied gay teens at high school, said that he strongly identified with the current anti-bullying movement in the US.

Bass told E!: "It's really important to me and it hits home obviously because I once was bullied, I once was a bully, and I'm gay."

Commenting on Hilton's comments last week, Bass said: "I saw that. I hope it's sincere.

"It's good that he takes that responsibility because I do believe that he's one of the reasons it taught the younger generation how to cyber bully.

"He started that. I mean, he outed me."

The singer then admitted that Hilton had helped him recently, explaining: "Perez did help me the last two days when I was being cyber bullied by someone.

"The last two days have been crazy, it's been the worst. I thought it was going to be something bad but it ended up being fake. But it was a bully! It was someone threatening me."

He added: "So yeah, I do hope Perez is serious about changing his ways."