AJ McLean

JC and Justin had already come from the Mickey Mouse Club, so they already had a relationship with Disney.

Right.

And they were on the Mouse Club with Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears, so they all came out of that world.

But had we done that show, I don't know if things would have happened for NSYNC the way they did, maybe eventually.

But that was the catalyst for them.

And then it just was like...

this constant icky feeling for us.

Like you're really shitting where you eat kind of thing.

Like this is our own backyard now.

Like we're all from Orlando, same this, same that.

And it became really frustrating.

And that's when we parted ways with everybody.

uh what do you think his legacy is i mean look at the end of the day we will always be grateful because without lou we would never be anything nobody would have known who we were we wouldn't have even met like he is truly at the epicenter of our creation but

Everything we've done since we parted ways from him has been all us.

Continuing to grind, changing management companies multiple times.

Literally going through it.

Yes.

Both in the industry and in our personal lives.

Deaths in the family, rehabs, you name it.

Open heart surgery Brian had when he was 23.