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• 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 HE WAS GAY’ WHILE DISVERG HIS SEXUALY
• COLDPLAY'S CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS "VERY HOMOPHOBIC" AND "WORRIED" ABOUT BEG GAY AS A KID
• COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MART ONCE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY AND CHANGED HIS MD ABOUT GOD
• COLDPLAY – GAY?
• COLDPLAY ONTMAN CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS HOMOPHOBIC & THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY

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

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. "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.

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

""[I had] 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.

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

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. “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?

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

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. Celebry / MicChris Mart recently revealed his homophobic past and the tails are shockg.

There are a lot of words that fans n e to scribe Coldplay ontman Chris Mart, but “homophobic” is ually not one of them.

COLDPLAY – GAY?

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 ONTMAN CHRIS MART SAYS HE WAS HOMOPHOBIC & THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE GAY

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. 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.