{"id":118452,"date":"2024-09-19T15:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/19\/lady-gaga-explains-why-she-never-denied-rumor-she-was-a-man\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:02:53","slug":"lady-gaga-explains-why-she-never-denied-rumor-she-was-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/19\/lady-gaga-explains-why-she-never-denied-rumor-she-was-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga explains why she never denied rumor she was a man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-19\/Getty_LadyGaga_091924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Mazur\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As one of the more envelope-pushing artists of our times,<strong> Lady Gaga<\/strong> is used to being the subject of rumors, but in hindsight, one seems pretty ridiculous: that she was secretly a man. Now, Gaga is explaining why she never denied that particular rumor.<\/p>\n<p>In the second episode of the Netflix series<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81609333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>What&#8217;s Next: The Future with Bill Gates<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> which focuses on misinformation, Gaga tells Gates, \u201cWhen I was in my early 20s there was a rumor that I was a man. I went all over the world &#8230; and almost every interview I sat in \u2014 there was this imagery on the internet that had been doctored\u00a0\u2014 they were like, \u2018There&#8217;s this rumor that you\u2019re a man. What do you have to say about that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We then see a montage of interviews where she&#8217;s asked that question. &#8220;Why the hell am I going to waste my time and give a press release about whether or not [I&#8217;m a man]? My fans don\u2019t care and neither do I,&#8221; she&#8217;s seen telling <strong>Anderson Cooper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Gates, Gaga explains, &#8220;The reason why I didn\u2019t answer the question is because I didn\u2019t feel like a victim &#8230; but I thought about, what about a kid who is being accused of that, that would think a public figure like me would feel shame?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been in situations where fixing a rumor was not in the best interest of, I thought of, like, the well-being of other people,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So, in that case, I tried to &#8230; use the misinformation to create another disruptive point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaga may be referring to the fact that she created a male alter ego, <strong>Jo Calderone<\/strong>, who appeared in a music video and in fashion shoots and performed\u00a0at the MTV VMAs in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/WireImage As one of the more envelope-pushing artists of our times, Lady Gaga is used to being the subject of rumors, but in hindsight, one seems pretty ridiculous: that she was secretly a man. Now, Gaga is explaining why she never denied that particular rumor. In the second episode<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/19\/lady-gaga-explains-why-she-never-denied-rumor-she-was-a-man\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}