Gossip Cop sets straight Rihanna lesbian reports

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5:09 am, December 12th, 2009

Rihanna never ever said, “I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.”

Nevertheless, the quote was attributed to her, and rumors of her being a lesbian have exploded all over the Internet and onto the pages of numerous newspapers.

The Mirror, for instance, wrote: “Rihanna has revealed she is attracted to women – and would love a fling with Hollywood stunner Megan Fox.”

The article continued, “The Umbrella star – who was badly beaten-up by her ex boyfriend Chris Brown in February – said could see herself with a girlfriend in the future. The Barbadian singer said: ‘All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.’”

And websites like StarPulse similarly reported, under the headline “Rihanna Is Open To A Lesbian Romance,” that she “won’t rule out a same-sex romance,” having said, “All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.”

Again, the problem is Rihanna NEVER said those words – Megan Fox did.

In the original interview, upon which all this false information disseminated, Rihanna told the Daily Star – in response to whether she would like to break into acting — “I’d love to be an assassin. Either that or a lesbian. Maybe both! Hey, a gay assassin, there’s nothing hotter than that.”

And when asked who she would like to play opposite, “She purred: ‘Megan Fox – hands down. She’s yummy. She’s hot.’”

Here’s where the (sexual) confusion comes in…

The Daily Star then wrote that Fox “has never been shy about her penchant for… the ladies. She said: ‘All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.’”

Many outlets mistook the “She said” to mean that Rihanna uttered those words when, in fact, it was a quote Fox gave to the October 2008 issue of GQ, though, for full disclosure, the “Transformers” star also prefaced it with “I’m not a lesbian.”

While several outlets out there should be sorry for their wrongly reported stories, Gossip Cop would like to apologize to the guys out there whose TWO fantasies we crushed in one single post.

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