Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough has dished out some words of advice for wayward teen idol Justin Bieber urging him to 'keep his shirt on' every now and then - and try not to spit on his neighbour, as he has been accused of doing.
Howie, 39, who along with his four band-mates are celebrating twenty years in the music business this month, told the MailOnline he believes Justin may come to regret his actions later in life.
In recent months the Boyfriend singer's life seems to have been spiraling out of control with the 19-year-old Canadian getting into several scrapes with paparazzi, being investigated by the police after allegedly 'assaulting' his neighbour and being caught driving over 100 mph on a Los Angeles, California, freeway.
In light of Justin's recent incidents, Backstreeter Howie said if he met the pop star he would like to help him out.
'I think we would try to give him advice,' Howie, 39, said. 'Whether he would take it or not is a completely different thing because everyone has to take their own path.
'I would probably try to tell him to take a couple of pictures with his shirt on so that in twenty years from now, he's not going to be upset that had all those pictures without his shirt on.
'Oh and don't spit on your next door neighbour if you don't have to.
'There are certain things you would try to tell him but you know, I haven't walked in his shoes so it's very hard to give someone advice.'
The father-of-two added: 'Some of the new groups that are out there, the Justin Biebers that are out there, you look at them and you feel for them when they make their mistakes.
'But at the end of the day we all have to make them. It's very hard for any of us to go in there and tell somebody don't do this, don't do that.
'I think everyone has to go through these experiences, some of those experiences makes them the person they are going to be.'
Howie, along with Nick Carter, AJ McLean, Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell went through their own share of controversy back in the day when they became the best selling boy band in history.
AJ, 35, went into rehab twice in 2001 and 2002 battling drink and drug addiction.
And Nick Carter, 33, who joined the band when he was only 12 years old, had his own problems with drugs and weight gain.
He turned his life around after being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy - a potentially fatal heart condition.
Nick told MailOnline that despite his personal slip-ups, if it hadn't been for joining the band, his life could have turned out much worse.
'I came from a family where in the neighbourhood I was, there was a lot of negativity; drugs, alcohol, fighting... all that sort of thing.
'I know a lot of people who used to live in the neighbourhood who are either now dead or in jail and I could easily have ended up there.
'So I think in some ways I was saved, saved by the band.'
But he added: 'I hate focusing on the lows.
'We've been blessed.
'We are fortunate that we are in a place that a lot of people wish they could be and I think that everything that has happened up to this point right now, has happened for a reason.
't has occurred and has formed and made us who we are right now.
'I think everyone of us in this group is a better person than we were 15 or even ten years ago.
'The things that we have gone through, all the tragedy; the drugs, the alcohol, the women.
'All the different things really could have taken a toll and someone could have been dead.
'So many different things could have happened but didn't because not only did we stick together but it just turned out that way.'
The quintet marked their 20th anniversary on Saturday with a party held for fans in Hollywood. The Boys have a new album coming out at the end of the year followed by a world tour.
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