Lady Gaga is finally addressing unsubstantiated rumors that followed her early in her music career. “When I was in my early 20s there was a rumor that I was a man,” Gaga, 38, said during a conversation with Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates on his new Netflix series, What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates , which premiered Wednesday, September 18. “I went all over the world — I traveled for tours, for promoting my records — and almost every interview I sat in, they [asked about it],” Gaga continued.
“There was imagery on the internet that had been doctored. And they were like, ‘You know, there’s this rumor that you’re a man. What do you have to say about that?’” “The reason I didn’t answer the question was because I didn’t feel like a victim with that lie,” Gaga explained.
“But I thought about, like, what about a kid that’s being accused of that, that would think a public figure like me would feel shame?” Gaga added, “I’ve been in situations where fixing a rumor was not in the best interest of ...
I thought of the well-being of other people. So, 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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] that my performance is what’s not real. But to me, that’s the most real thing that you’ll see about me.” Lady Gaga talks about how she’s handled misinformation in her career in What’s Next? The Future with Bill .