Lady Gaga Still Haunted By Vicious Rumors She's Really A Man: 'Poker Face' Singer Blasts 'I've Been Used To Lies Being Printed About Me Since I Was 20 Years Old'
Sept. 19 2024, Published 12:30 p.m. ET
Lady Gaga is still haunted by persistent rumors she is secretly a man, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The Poker Face singer, 38, admitted she’s never been able to shake off speculation surrounding her gender, which has followed the star throughout her career.
And Gaga – real name Stefani Germanotta – believes the misinformation was allowed to continue because she’s historically refused to shut down questions concerning it.
Gaga said: "When I was in my early 20s there was a rumor that I was a man.
"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, ‘'Here’s rumors that you’re a man. What do you have to say about that?'"
And on not shutting down speculation, she added: "The reason why I didn't answer the question is because I didn’t feel like a victim with that lie and 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 rumor was not in the best interest of the well-being of other people.
"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."
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Gaga was opening up about her torment during an appearance on new Netflix series What's Next? The Future With Bill Gates.
The pop superstar famously offered a curt response to the question asked by Anderson Cooper in 2011 in which she was asked about the rumor and whether or not she "had a male appendage" or was a "hermaphrodite."
She said: "Maybe I do."
When pressed by Gates, 68, on why she "had fun with" the rumors instead of immediately refuting them via a press release, she hit back: "Why the hell am I going to waste my time and give a press release about whether or not I have a penis?
"My fans don’t care and neither do I."
Gaga is clearly was in a feisty mood as her outburst came days after she responded to a Facebook group made by her university peers claiming she would never make it in the entertainment industry.
The Joker 2 star, who became the first person in history to win an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA and Golden Globe in a single year in 2019, briefly studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts before leaving in 2005 to pursue a career in music.
Commenting on a viral TikTok video that included screenshots from the now-deleted "Stefano Germanotta you will never be famous" Facebook group, she said: "Some people I went to college (with) made this way back when.
"This is why you can’t give up when people doubt you or put you down – gotta keep going."
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