Lady Gaga explains why she ignored early rumours of being a man: “I didn’t feel like a victim”
nme.comLady Gaga has explained why she ignored rumours early in her career that she was secretly a man.The singer, songwriter and actor spoke about her decision with Bill Gates in his series What’s Next?
The Future with Bill Gates, recounting speculation about her sex shortly after the release of her breakthrough 2008 debut ‘The Fame’.“When I was in my early 20s there was a rumour that I was a man,” she told Gates. “I went all over the world.
I travelled for tours and for promoting my records and almost every interview I sat in they said… there was this imagery on the Internet that had been doctored… they’d say, ‘There’s rumours that you’re a man.
What do you have to say about that?'”Gaga went on to explain that she never answered the question as “I didn’t feel like a victim with that lie,” adding: “I thought: ‘What about a kid who is being accused of that, who would think that a public figure like me would feel shame?’“I’ve been in situations where fixing a rumour was not in the best interest of the wellbeing of other people.
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