Lady Gaga Explains Why She Never Addressed Rumors She's a Man

Lady Gaga Praises Fiancé Michael Polansky for Helping Her Through an "Absolutely Horrible Time"

Lady Gaga was, successful fact, calved this way.

The 38-year-old, whose existent sanction is Stefani Germanotta, precocious opened up astir a rumor that plagued the commencement of her euphony career.

“I’ve been utilized to lies being printed astir maine since I was 20 years old,” she shared connected shared connected the Netflix series What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates. “I’m a performer. I deliberation it’s benignant of funny. When I was successful my aboriginal 20s, determination was a rumor that I was a man.”

Gaga said the rumor followed her arsenic she traveled “all implicit the world” to beforehand her euphony aft a doctored representation appeared connected the Internet.

“Almost each interrogation I sat in,” she recalled, “they said, ‘There’s this rumor that you’re a man. What bash you person to accidental astir that?’”

The Grammy victor opted to disregard the speculation astatine the time, purposefully declining to merchandise a connection astir the validity of the rumors.

She continued, “I’ve been successful situations wherever fixing a rumor was not successful the good being of different people. So successful that case, I tried to beryllium thought provoking and disruptive successful different way. I tried to usage the misinformation to make different disruptive point.”

And portion she doesn’t code each rumors astir her, backmost successful June, Gaga had the cleanable clapback aft fans speculated that she mightiness beryllium large and expecting her archetypal kid with fiancé Michael Polansky.

"Not pregnant," Gaga wrote atop the clip shared to her TikTok June 4 before quipping, "just down atrocious crying astatine the gym."

And successful existent Gaga form, she took the accidental to pivot attraction to what she felt as more pressing matters, sharing a nexus to "register to vote."