Lance Bass is reflecting on how coming out led to the cancellation of a CW pilot he was set to star in.

The singer, 45, opened up about experiencing some professional drawbacks after publicly revealing his sexuality, noting that he "lost everything" after he shared his story. (Bass came out in a July 2006 cover story for People.)

"It was a crazy scary situation because all the examples I've ever had of anyone coming out, especially in entertainment, was that it's a career killer," Bass revealed during the Tuesday, December 3, episode of the "Politickin'" podcast.

"I had a sitcom, you know, with The CW at the time," he said. "We were about to shoot the pilot and this came out and they were like, 'We can't do the show anymore. Like, they have to believe that you're straight to play a straight character.'"

Us Weekly has reached out to The CW for comment, but did not immediately hear back. (The CW - which was formed in 2006 as a merger of The WB and UPN - changed administrations in 2022 when it was acquired by Nexstar, which had no ties to the network at the time of Bass' pilot.)

Bass went on to share that the axed series was just the beginning of having a difficult time finding work in the industry after coming out.

"Every casting director I knew, they're like, 'Lance, we can't cast you because they can't look past ... You're too famous for being gay now that they can't look at you as anything other than that,'" he explained, noting that he had to "completely just restart and rebrand" once "everything kind of fell off."

Despite experiencing hardships in Hollywood during his career, Bass said he has since worked with some of those same casting directors, who called their decision to not work with him earlier "really dumb."

He added, "They've actually cast me a lot of things since, which is really funny and ironic. But you know, I never hold grudges at all. I'm very understanding. I get it. Business is business is business. It sucks, but I never can hold grudges."