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

Contents:

• 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
• CHRIS MART REFLECTS ON BEG 'VERY HOMOPHOBIC' AND 'WORRIED HE WAS GAY' DURG SCHOOL
• COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS ‘VERY HOMOPHOBIC’ AND ‘WORRIED HE WAS GAY’ WHILE DISVERG HIS SEXUALY
• COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID
• SO IS COLDPLAY REALLY THAT "GAY"
• COLDPLAY – GAY?
• COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MART ONCE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY AND CHANGED HIS MD ABOUT GOD

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

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

So why was everyone tryg to fd out if Chris Mart, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland abd Will Champn were gay? (Picture: Getty Image)The rabow is obvly an inic symbol of gay pri, and actually, was a pretty bold statement for Coldplay to make nsirg the big opposn to gay marriage there has been Ameri. Not only that, the NFL has historilly not been too warm to homosexual players g out.

The first openly gay football star, Michael Sam, only joed the league 2014, when he was drafted by the St. "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.

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

"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 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. “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 SAYS HE WAS ‘VERY HOMOPHOBIC’ AND ‘WORRIED HE WAS GAY’ WHILE DISVERG HIS SEXUALY

“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? 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.

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

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. "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.

SO IS COLDPLAY REALLY THAT "GAY"

""[I had] a b more exposure to the world, thkg, 'A lot of my hero are gay, ' or whatever. Coldplay ontman Chris Mart has admted that he was “very homophobic” when qutng his sexualy as a young teen at an all-boys’ boardg school. Mart, who is straight, told Rollg Stone that he had “a rough time” ftg at school and faced a “terrible turmoil” as he nsired whether 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, ” he said. “‘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. He relled 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 – GAY?

“[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. 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.

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

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. After that, when bulli would tell him he was gay, he started to rpond by sayg, "Yeah, so what?