During Fatone's appearance on
PEOPLE's Defend Yourself, the former *NSYNC bandmate, 43, joked about being friend zoned by PINK, 41. "I'm cool with being in the friend zone with Pink; there's nothing wrong with that," he said with a laugh. "I'm okay with rejection. I mean heck, I’ve been in *NSYNC a lot, so I can take rejection. That's definitely cool and I don't have a problem with that. [But] let’s set the record straight."
Fatone went on to admit that the narrative about him asking her father for permission to date her is untrue. "I actually asked her out a few times and we went out," he clarified during the video appearance. "We were cool as heck. But I guess I wasn’t her type, so that was it. We were still friends. That was it!"