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• CHRIS MART REVEALS CHILDHOOD STGGLE WH DISVERG HIMSELF: 'I WAS TERRIFIED' OF BEG GAY
• CHRIS MART REFLECTS ON BEG 'VERY HOMOPHOBIC' AND 'WORRIED HE WAS GAY' DURG SCHOOL
• CHRIS MART SEXUALY: WHY FANS THK HE IS A GAY?
• A LOT PEOPLE WANTED TO KNOW IF COLDPLAY AND CHRIS MART ARE GAY AFTER WATCHG THE SUPER BOWL
• CHRIS MART FEARED BEG GAY AS TEENAGER AT BOARDG SCHOOL
• COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MART ONCE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY AND CHANGED HIS MD ABOUT GOD
• COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS ‘VERY HOMOPHOBIC’ AND ‘WORRIED HE WAS GAY’ WHILE DISVERG HIS SEXUALY

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

Chris Mart has revealed that he qutned his sexualy as a teenager - but his own homophobia ma him supprs his Coldplay ontman explaed to Rollg Stone magaze how beg bullied at boardg school and explorg Evangelil Christiany ma him fear thoughts that he might be, 42, said: “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****ed for eterny’ and I was a kid disverg Mart has opened up to Rollg Stone magaze about stggl wh his sexualy (Cred: AP)Read more: Coldplay's Chris Mart 'happy to be a human punchbag'“‘Maybe I’m gay, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I n’t be this’ so I was terrified and I walked a b funny.

CHRIS MART REFLECTS ON BEG 'VERY HOMOPHOBIC' AND 'WORRIED HE WAS GAY' DURG SCHOOL

“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.

CHRIS MART SEXUALY: WHY FANS THK HE IS A 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. I was jt, ‘So what if I’m gay?

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

Maybe was growg up a b and havg a b more exposure to the world - thkg, ‘A lot of my hero are gay, ’ or whatever. "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.

CHRIS MART FEARED BEG GAY AS TEENAGER AT BOARDG SCHOOL

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’S CHRIS MART ONCE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY AND CHANGED HIS MD ABOUT GOD

"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.

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.

COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS ‘VERY HOMOPHOBIC’ AND ‘WORRIED HE WAS GAY’ WHILE DISVERG 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. He said "was also very homophobic" at the time.

"[B]ee I was like 'If I'm gay, I'm pletely fucked for eterny, " he a few years, Mart stggled wh this ia. While he personally didn't thk he was gay, everyone around him was tellg him he was -- and that was enough to threaten his eternal soul. Thankfully, Mart soon realized there's nothg wrong wh beg gay.

Mart realized some of his hero, cludg Elton John, were gay, and that the world was a lot bigger and more diverse than he had realized.