Lady Gaga reveals why she didn’t correct early rumours she was a man


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The New York City native said she’s 'used to lies being printed about me since I was 20 years old.' Photo: Reuters

Lady Gaga is opening up about a chapter early in her career where rumors spread she was a man – and why she never denied those claims.

The Oscar and Grammy Award winner said she was intentional not to take the bait surrounding the scuttlebutt about her gender.

“When I was in my early 20s there was a rumour that I was a man,” she recounts in an episode of the new Netflix series What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates.

Gaga, now 38, continued: “I went all over the world. I travelled for tours and for promoting my records and almost every interview I sat in – there was this imagery on the Internet that had been doctored – they were like, ‘There’s rumours that you’re a man. What do you have to say about that?’”

While she didn’t appreciate the line of questioning, the Bad Romance singer – known for her androgynous looks at the time – didn’t want a potential response to be viewed in a negative way.

“The reason I didn’t answer the question was because I didn’t feel like a victim with that lie,” she told the billionaire entrepreneur. “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 well-being of other people,” she added. “In that case, I tried to be thought-provoking and disruptive in another way. I tried to use the misinformation to create another disruptive point.”

The New York City native said she’s “used to lies being printed about me since I was 20 years old.” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service

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