Nick Lachey is reflecting on the early days of 98 Degrees.
Nick along with his brother Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons, and Justin Jeffre made up the boy group that first made it big in the 90s when they between the ages of 21 and 24.
While sitting down for ID’s new documentary Boy Band Confidential, Nick looked back at the group’s first time touring in 1999 and admitted that the guys kept a book listing age-of-consent laws on their tour bus.
Keep reading to find out more…“This is going to sound super shady, but when we first went out, I remember our first tour, someone at the label gave us a book, and it was the age of consent in every state in the country,” Nick recalled in the new doc, per Page Six. “And, like, we kept that book on the tour bus.”
He went on to explain that the book was meant as a safeguard to keep the guys out of trouble, adding, “Unfortunately, there were people out there looking to tear you down.”
Also in the doc, Nick detailed the intense pressure they were under at the time, claiming that artists were expected to push through regardless of how the were feeling with little room for breaks.
“You’ll see a Justin Bieber cancel a tour,” Nick said. “You’ll see a Shawn Mendes cancel a tour because ‘my mental health needs to come first.’ That was not an option when we were out there.”
“You went out there and you did the show and you came back after the show and you broke down and you cried and you kicked a hole in the wall, or you did whatever you had to do,” he continued. “But you didn’t bow out. You work so hard to get there, you can’t let your foot off the gas.”
If you didn’t see, Nick and ex-wife Jessica Simpson allegedly had an awkward run-in on a shared flight recently.
Boy Band Confidential will be available for streaming on Ruku beginning on April 13.
