Celebrities are people too. They're brothers, sons, and fathers. That's something fans can forget. One popular singer reflected on that time a crazed fan tried to snatch his daughter away.
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Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees recently opened up about the incident in ID's Boy Band Confidential: Deep Cuts. He said someone once tried to take his oldest daughter, Alyssa.
"I was on the road all the time. I had a young daughter and some guy came up to me and he was just kind of looking at me," he recalled.
He continued, "He was like, 'Hey, you're Jeff from 98 Degrees,' and I'm holding my daughter and this guy literally, he goes, 'You're not supposed to have a baby,' like trying to snatch my daughter out of my hands, like literally having some sort of weird meltdown and I felt scared, not necessarily of him. It's how weird and how unpredictable people can be sometimes, and it was bizarre."
Singer Talks Struggles
The singer reflected on his own mental health struggles during the band's height. It was something he struggled with. The singer had issues with his self image.
He explained, "I just didn't feel good about myself. I didn't feel good. Physically. I couldn't sleep and my head wasn't right."
"I felt so worthless and just the fact that I could not handle all this pressure, that I was like, 'Just end it,' " he said.
Things got so bad that he went to the manager of the band.
"I went to our manager and I said, 'I need some help. If I don't get some sort of help, I will not be here. This is over. And I mean, seriously,' " he added.
Band mate Nick Lachey noted how things have changed for modern artists. Things were different back then.
"You'll see a Bieber cancel a tour. 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," Lachey, now 52, said in the documentary series.
"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, but you didn't bow out," he continued. "You worked so hard to get there, you couldn't let your foot off the gas."
