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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
• A LOT PEOPLE WANTED TO KNOW IF COLDPLAY AND CHRIS MART ARE GAY AFTER WATCHG THE SUPER BOWL
• COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID

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. 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. “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.

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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 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.

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

"[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.

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

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