Lady Gaga Reveals Why She Refused to Address Rumors She Was a Man: ‘I Didn’t Feel Like a Victim’

Gaga opened up about the rumor, which followed the superstar throughout her early career, on Netflix’s ‘What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates’

No, Lady Gaga isn’t a man — but that shouldn’t matter.

The Grammy-winning pop superstar, 38, opened up on Netflix’s What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates about the early career rumor that she was a man and why she chose to never publicly shut down the claims.

“When I was in my early 20s, there was a rumor that I was a man,” said Gaga on the series. “And I went all over the world. I traveled for tours and for promoting my records and almost every interview I sat in — there was this imagery on the internet that had been doctored — they were like, ‘There’s rumors that you’re a man. What do you have to say about that?’”