Chris Mart shar childhood stggl: I was 'terrified' to be gay

Contents:

• CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY
• COLDPLAY – GAY?
• COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID
• COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS ‘VERY HOMOPHOBIC’ AND ‘WORRIED HE WAS GAY’ WHILE DISVERG HIS SEXUALY
• A LOT PEOPLE WANTED TO KNOW IF COLDPLAY AND CHRIS MART ARE GAY AFTER WATCHG THE SUPER BOWL

CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY

"When I went to boardg school, I walked a b funny and I bounced a b and I was also very homophobic bee I was like, 'If I’m gay, I’m pletely (expletive) for eterny, ' and I was a kid like disverg sexualy, " Mart said. "More:Album review: Coldplay tackl gun ntrol, police btaly on faiar 'Everyday Life'The Grammy-wng artist relled that his classmat would tell him wh nvictn that he was gay. "I was a boardg school wh a bunch of que hardre kids who were also gone for their thg and, for a few years, they would very much say, 'You’re fely gay, '  que a full-on manner, que aggrsively tellg me that and was weird for me for a few years, " Mart add when he was younger he didn't know if he was gay and thought that even if he was, he thought was wrong.

"I don't know and even if I am, I n't be bee 's wrong, " Mart said he thought at the time, addg he started to worry about beg said there me a time where he stopped worryg about beg gay, which he attributed to gag more exposure to the world and regnizg that some of his hero are gay. Coldplay ontman Chris Mart has opened up about the "btal" anxiety and fear he grappled wh while attendg boardg school - admtg that he held homophobic beliefs born om ep secury. "When I went to boardg school, I walked a b funny and I bounced a b and I was also very homophobic bee I was like, 'If I’m gay, I’m pletely f**ked for eterny' and I was a kid disverg sexualy, " he said.

"[I thought, ] 'Maybe I’m gay, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I n’t be this. '" The sger ntued: "I was terrified and then I walked a b funny and I was a boardg school wh a bunch of que hardre kids who were also gone for their thg and, for a few years, they would very much say, 'You’re fely gay, '  que a full-on manner, que aggrsively tellg me that and was weird for me for a few years.

COLDPLAY – GAY?

"I don't know [if I'm gay] and even if I am, I n't be bee 's wrong… If I am, I n't be, '" he said. "I start[ed] to worry about [beg gay] for sure. "While the star claims he don't "know what was" that changed the way he viewed homosexualy, he spects had somethg to do wh "jt growg up a b.

""[I had] a b more exposure to the world, thkg, 'A lot of my hero are gay, ' or whatever. Coldplay ontman Chris Mart has opened up about beg “very homophobic” when he was “a kid disverg sexualy” durg his younger days at boardg school.

Mart, who was married to actrs Gwyh Paltrow for seven years until their “nsc unuplg” 2014 and is now datg Dakota Johnson, spoke to Rollg Stone about the “terrible turmoil” he went through as a young stunt when he and fellow stunts thought that he might be gay. “When I went to boardg school I walked a b funny and I bounced a b, and I was also very homophobic bee I was like, ‘If I’m gay, I’m pletely fucked for eterny’ and I was a kid disverg sexualy, ” said Mart.

COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID

“‘Maybe I’m gay, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I n’t be this’ so I was terrified and then I walked a b funny and I was a boardg school wh a bunch of que hardre kids who were also gone for their thg and, for a few years, they would very much say, ‘You’re fely gay, ’ que a full-on manner, que aggrsively tellg me that and was weird for me for a few years. Unr the tnts of his fellow stunts, Mart relled the nfn of thkg at the time, “‘I don’t know [if I’m gay] and even if I am, I n’t be bee ’s wrong… If I am, I n’t be’.

COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS ‘VERY HOMOPHOBIC’ AND ‘WORRIED HE WAS GAY’ WHILE DISVERG HIS SEXUALY

In his mid-teens as his foc turned towards mic, Mart found that he wasn’t gay and he lost his prejudice after “a b more exposure to the world”. [I had] a b more exposure to the world, thkg, ‘A lot of my hero are gay’, or whatever. The bridge ntu the them while solidifyg the track as standg wh the gay rights moment: "We'll all be ee to fall love / Wh who we want, " Mart sgs near the end of the bridge.

The gay pri ntext was ferable om the song's tle, but s fal unique lyrics htg right at the heart of the matter really brgs the pot home. “Wanna know how I know you’re gay? And wh orchtral flourish, melancholy m on love, war and peace – and lt we fet Chris Mart’s goose-bump-igng falsetto – the quartet’s latt wordy-tled album don’t seem hard-prsed to gay-down their rock.

You know that film wh a guy who spoog on his own face, an y the size of Texas – and a gay threome where one du sgs the Natnal Anthem to another du’s ass-crack?

A LOT PEOPLE WANTED TO KNOW IF COLDPLAY AND CHRIS MART ARE GAY AFTER WATCHG THE SUPER BOWL

In a new terview wh Rollg Stone, the Coldplay sger nfsed that he was bullied for seemg gay when he was boardg about 21 mut to the more than half-hour chat, Mart began to discs his sexualy. In an answer eerily siar to the first verse of "Same Love, " Mart told the terviewer, "When I went to boardg school, I walked a b funny and I bounced a b" and so people would tell him "you're fely gay.

" "It was weird for me, " he "Fix You" sger add that he was raised a strict relig hoehold that tght him that sners would burn Hell and that ma him terrified of beg gay.