(CNN) – Lady Gaga reflects on her careful response to past rumors that she was a man.
In an appearance at “What’s Next? “The Future with Bill Gates,” on Netflix, Gaga addressed insinuations that she was male or intersex when she was rising to stardom.
“I traveled all over the world,” Gaga told Gates. “I traveled to tour and promote my albums, and in almost every interview I participated in (there were doctored images on the Internet) they told me: ‘There are rumors that you are a man. What do you have to say about it?’”
Gaga often responded with indifference to such questions, as she demonstrated in a 2011 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper for “60 Minutes”.
“There was this rumor that you had a male appendix,” Cooper said then.
“I might have it,” Gaga responded. “Would it be so terrible?”
“But it’s interesting,” Cooper continued. “A lot of artists would have put out some kind of statement saying ‘This is not true at all,’ but you have fun with it.”
“Why the hell would I waste my time and give a press release about whether I have a penis or not?” Gaga joked. “My fans don’t care and neither do I.”
In her conversation with Gates, Gaga further explained why she didn’t deny speculation about her gender.
“The reason I didn’t answer the question is because I didn’t feel like a victim with that lie and I thought: What happens to a guy who is being accused of that? What would he think of a public figure like me feeling ashamed? ?”, he added. “I’ve been in situations where fixing a rumor wasn’t in the best interest of other people’s well-being.”
The superstar said she has become accustomed to the frequent “misinformation” about her.
“I’m used to lies being published about me,” Gaga said. “I am an artist. “I think it’s funny.”
