Lance Bass: 'Justin Timberlake should help Britney Spears'

Lance Bass thinks his pal and former 'N Sync' bandmate should help his ex- girlfriend Britney Spears through her current struggle.

"Justin could really help," said Bass.

Lance, 28, reckons Timberlake - who dated the troubled pop princess for four years - ending in 2002 – should join an extended support system to help Spears, currently battling severe bipolar disorder and a legal fight with her parents after a week in the psychiatric ward at the UCLA Medical Center.

"I hope that she gets good people back in her life," he told American magazine Us Weekly. "It would be nice to see those old and familiar faces from back in the day back in her life."

"Hopefully this is as low as it will go," he added. "She will definitely get the help that she needs."

Spears 26, was released from Los Angeles' UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday after being involuntarily committed to treatment for bipolar disorder on January 31. She had been expected to remain hospitalized for a further 10 days.