Lady Gaga has broken her own PR protocol and told Brisbane radio shock jocks she is not offended by hermaphrodite rumours — but her vagina is "a little upset".
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The pop diva — who has endured the bizarre rumours since recent footage of her dancing on stage showed a bump in her crotch — agreed to broach the topic during an interview with Brisbane's Nova breakfast radio team yesterday.
And she did so despite her minder telling Nova's Meshel, Ash and Tim that the interview must not stray from Lady Gaga's"fashion, her tour, her fans and her music".
"I'm going to ask how her fashion works around her penis ... and whether her fans notice it," the team is heard joking before the interview begins, after a full audio track was posted on the Nova website.
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The interview begins with a question on Lady Gaga's tour to Australia, scheduled for next March, but the shock jocks soon ask the 23-year-old if she sets the parameters on what she is willing to talk about publicly.
"I don't even know what you're talking about," she responds over the phone from her recording studio in California.
"I'm just a girl from New York that wanted to be a star. Anything you wish to ask me is cool with me."
Meshel then asked: "Where are we at with the tiny penis issue right now, Lady Gaga?"
"My beautiful vagina is very offended," Gaga responds coolly. "I'm not offended — my vagina is offended.
"I've sold four million records in six months. I'm not embarrassed about anything."
Gaga instead said she blamed the she-male rumours on "society's reaction to a strong woman — the idea that we equate strength with man and a penis as a symbol of male strength."
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