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2019-12-04T09:05:33.308Z


Coldplay band vocalist revealed in Rolling Stone interview that he suffered from bullying • I was sure if I was gay I was permanently screwed


Coldplay band vocalist revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that he suffered from bullying as a teenager • "I was sure if I was gay I was permanently screwed"

  • Chris Martin

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Chris Martin, a British Coldplay band soloist, was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine as part of a publicity campaign to promote the band's eighth album "Everyday Life," revealing the upheavals and bullying he went through as a teenager in boarding school and his sexual identity struggle.

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Martin, 42, said he was educated as a boarding school boy and struggled with severe upheavals as a result of social and religious pressures and self-homophobia. "While attending boarding school," he said, "I went a little funny and rocked and I was also really homophobic because I was sure that if I was gay then I was permanently screwed.

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"I was a child who reveals his sexuality. Maybe I'm like that, maybe I'm different, I can't be that ... I was terrified," he revealed.

Martin added that this discovery could be brutal, until the realization that everyone was going through it. The bullying he suffered, he revealed, was mundane, "and came from thugs who were hardcore and undergoing their own process. For a good couple of years they kept telling me 'you're safe gay' aggressively and incessantly."

Martin said that as a teenager coming from a religious home, he struggled with his cynicism because he was raised to believe that "being gay is wrong."


"To me God is everything and everyone." Coldplay on the show // Photo: REUTERS

At 15, he revealed, the issue was resolved. "I don't know what happened at 15 and a half," he said, "but I suddenly found myself saying 'So what' and then it stopped overnight. It was very interesting. Growing up while I was exposed to everything in the world changed my way of thinking." said. "A lot of my heroes are gay, but it doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter. It's taken off the pressure."

With this belief and acceptance, Martin recounted, his belief in religion was renewed. "For me God is everything and everyone. It's love, it's a miracle in everything and it's a huge mystery. Everyone is precious and everyone has a part in the super plan."

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