Lady Gaga explains why she has never responded to claims that she is a man
Lady Gaga recently shed light on why she chose not to respond to a lingering rumor during the start of her career that implied she was really a man.
Lady Gaga was, in fact, born this way.
The 38-year-old, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, recently opened up about a rumor that plagued the start of her music career.
“I’ve been used to lies being printed about me since I was 20 years old,” she shared on shared on the Netflix series What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates. “I’m a performer. I think it’s kind of funny. When I was in my early 20s, there was a rumor that I was a man.”
Gaga said the rumor followed her as she traveled “all over the world” to promote her music after a doctored image appeared on the Internet.
“Almost every interview I sat in,” she recalled, “they said, ‘There’s this rumor that you’re a man. What do you have to say about that?’”
The Grammy winner opted to ignore the speculation at the time,purposefully declining to release a statement about the validity of the rumors.
