will.i.am has recalled the instances his sexuality was introduced into query on account of his “female” mannerisms that he picked up from his mom.
The Black Eyed Peas frontman joined British entrepreneur Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO podcast final week, the place he mirrored on a troublesome interval when he was rising up and the shortage of a father determine in his life.
“Coming of age, I didn’t have a person in my life — a father in my life to information me via that,” he started. “My mother did that, which in all probability made me extremely female. I’ve no disgrace in being tremendous female.
“I bear in mind within the ’90s, we don’t have the help within the LGBT group now that we did then. So rising up within the ’90s, we had been like, ‘Are you homosexual?’ Lots of people questioned [me] as a result of I used to be female. I’m nonetheless female. I sit the way in which I sit, I act the way in which I act, my mannerisms are my mother’s.”
will.i.am then defined he seems at his femininity as his “superpower” and went on to make clear that he’s solely drawn to ladies, not males.
“I’m sturdy with my femininity I feel it’s a superpower,” he continued. “When who you might be and you like who you might be and the way you vibe, that’s what it’s about. I like women. By no means was drawn to males. I’m drawn to females, however I’m female.”
The 48-year-old has by no means been married or had youngsters, however was beforehand linked to Huge Brother star Casey Batchelor again in 2014.
“I don’t have time for girlfriends, and that’s why I simply maintain busy,” he instructed The Mirror in 2015. “I maintain going as a result of that’s what I need to do.”
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In the meantime, will.i.am additionally just lately recalled the time 2Pac stole Black Eyed Peas member Apl.de.Ap’s girlfriend proper in entrance of him at a Roscoe’s Hen & Waffles again within the ’90s.
“I by no means met Biggie,” he mentioned in an interview with DJ Whoo Child final month. “I by no means had an interplay with 2Pac, however Apl.de.Ap within the Black Eyed Peas, he had this girlfriend. I don’t wanna identify her identify or put her on blast, and so they had been consuming at freaking Roscoe’s Hen & Waffles.
“She was sizzling, bro. She was a lovely Puerto Rican younger lady, once we had been children. 2Pac did like this [beckoning gesture] after which she was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ll be proper again.’ half-hour later, [Apl’s] hen waffles obtained all chilly, freaking syrup obtained all freaking stiff, butter obtained freaking liquidy.”
He continued: “And he was like, ‘She ain’t coming again…’ That’s his basic 2Pac [story].”
