Chris Martin opens up about discovering his sexuality as a teen: 'I was very homophobic'

Chris Martin has opened up about his struggles as a young man with his sexuality and religious beliefs.

The Coldplay frontman gave a video interview with Rolling Stone, where he told founder and editorial director Jann S. Wenner about his experiences growing up with a strong faith while attending an all-boys boarding school. At around ages 14 and 15, other boys at the school began to assume he was gay.

"When I went to boarding school I walked a bit funny and I bounced a bit and I was also very homophobic because I was like, 'If I'm gay, I'm completely f----d for eternity' and I was a kid discovering sexuality," he recalled. 

"'Maybe I'm gay, maybe I'm this, maybe I'm that, I can't be this,' so I was terrified and then I walked a bit funny and I was in a boarding school with a bunch of quite hardcore kids who were also going for their thing and, for a few years, they would very much say, 'You're definitely gay,' in quite a full-on manner, quite aggressively telling me that and it was weird for me for a few years."

He said he "started to worry about it," but, eventually, he found peace in knowing that the label didn't matter.

"About 15 and a half, I don't know what happened," he continued. "I was like, 'Yeah so what?' and then it all just stopped overnight. It was very interesting. Once I was like, 'Yeah, so what if I'm gay.'" 

Recalling himself as being "evangelical" in his religious beliefs at that time, he said that by freeing himself from past homophobic thoughts, his beliefs about his faith also changed.

"Just growing up a bit and having a bit more exposure to the world thinking, 'A lot of my heroes are gay' or whatever. Whatever they are, it doesn't really matter," the 'Fix You' singer explained. 

"So what that did was ease a big pressure and then made me question, 'Hey maybe some of this stuff that I'm learning about God and everything — I'm not sure if I subscribe to all of this particular religion'… So for a few years, that was a bit wobbly and then eventually I just was like, 'Okay, I think I have my own relationship with what I think God is' and it's not really any one religion for me."