Chris Mart reflects on beg 'very homophobic' and 'worried he was gay' durg school | SBS Voic

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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
• COLDPLAY – GAY?
• SO IS COLDPLAY REALLY THAT "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" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID
• 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

"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.

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

"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.

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.

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

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.

COLDPLAY – GAY?

After that, when bulli would tell him he was gay, he started to rpond by sayg, "Yeah, so what? "I'm not sure if I subscribe to all of this particular relign, " he thought to ma fun of for beg gay as a teen sucks, believe me -- I've been there.

I'm sure be easier after you realize you're not gay and stops, but still. 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.

SO IS COLDPLAY REALLY THAT "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 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.

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

'" 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. ""[I had] a b more exposure to the world, thkg, 'A lot of my hero are gay, ' or whatever. Celebry / MicChris Mart recently revealed his homophobic past and the tails are shockg.

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

There are a lot of words that fans n e to scribe Coldplay ontman Chris Mart, but “homophobic” is ually not one of them. Chris Mart adms that he was ‘very homophobic’ when he was younger. He “walked a b funny” and “bounced a b, ” which led other kids to qutn whether he was gay or not.

“I was also very homophobic bee I was like, ‘If I’m gay, I’m pletely fucked for eterny, '” Mart said.

‘Maybe I’m gay, maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that, I n’t be this’ so I was terrified… I was a boardg school wh a bunch of que hardre kids who were also gog through their thgs 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. At this pot, Mart me to the realizatn that there was nothg wrong wh him if he were gay. [I had] 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 HE WAS GAY’ WHILE DISVERG HIS SEXUALY

Sce the begng of his reer, Chris Mart has supported gay rights. Mart is no longer the young kid who thought that there was somethg wrong wh someone if they were gay. In 2017, durg a show Dubl, Ireland, Mart thanked the untry for electg a “gay, immigrant” prime mister.

He was referrg to Leo Varadkar, who was the first openly gay prime mister of Ireland as well as the first prime mister of Indian herage.