JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - TIMBERLAKE: 'CELEBRITY SAVED ME'

Pop hunk JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE fears he would have amounted to nothing had it not been for his big break as a child star on THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB. The singer is convinced he would have been lured by sex and drugs if he hadn't found fame at an early age. The CRY ME A RIVER chart-topper started entering talent contests at the age of eight and shot to fame as future girlfriend BRITNEY SPEARS' co-star on TV. And the Tennessee native fears he would just have been another American troublemaker if he hadn't been caught up by fame. In an upcoming interview with London's Capital Radio, Timberlake says, "I'd have made nothing of myself in a normal environment. "I'd have been building houses with my uncle. I might have gone to college, but I don't know if I'd have made it through, there's too many... women. "Women, drugs and debauchery. I'd have gotten into trouble."