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Justin Timberlake Felt Paranoid After Suing NSYNC’s Infamous Manager in 1998

Justin Timberlake candidly spoke about his relationship to fame in 2011 and why it made him feel a little paranoid at first.

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Being famous seems like a headache. Sure, the riches that tend to come with it are great. But the lack of privacy seems like a taxing toll on the mind. People get a little faker, they want something from you— friends become few and far between.

Justin Timberlake knows this sensation too well, performing in front of cameras while he was barely a teenager. Then, he joined *NSYNC, where he became deeply familiar with how fake and phony people in the music industry could be.

When the band sued their former manager, Lou Pearlman—like their contemporaries, the Backstreet Boys—Justin Timberlake said he could see through lies a lot more, even........

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