{"id":555261,"date":"2026-03-21T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:21:11","slug":"robert-pattinson-once-got-in-trouble-as-a-kid-for-lying-and-saying-his-dad-was-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555261\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Pattinson once got in trouble as a kid for lying and saying his dad was Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Pattinson<\/a> has been lying for a long time.<\/p>\n

The Lighthouse star reflected on his predilection for public fibbing during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a> while promoting his new film The Drama on Thursday, noting that he’s been stretching the truth since his youth.<\/p>\n

“I kinda thought it was something which I did when I was older, just ’cause of interviews, but I did get in trouble quite a lot for doing that,” Pattinson said. “I got in trouble at school.”<\/p>\n

The first childhood lie that came to mind? “I said my dad was Michael Jackson<\/a> at show and tell,” the Twilight actor recalled.<\/p>\n

Pattinson said that his bizarre mistruth stemmed from his childhood fascination with ginkgo biloba supplements.<\/p>\n

“I always really liked the name of the pills,” he explained. “And then I guess my parents were both taking that, and I had this tape, I just recorded a tape \u2014\u00a0Michael Jackson’s actual album, recorded it, and said, ‘My dad’s been taking this medicine called ginkgo biloba, and this is him singing.’ And I got in lots of trouble for that.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Pattinson, his condition might be hereditary, as he said that lying comes easily to his daughter, whom he welcomed with his fianc\u00e9e Suki Waterhouse in March 2024.<\/p>\n

“She could find it very easy to lie to herself already,” he explained. “She’ll walk into a room, she’s like, ‘I see\u2026giraffe!’ And I’m like, ‘You do?’ And it’s incredibly convincing. She’s either got a sixth sense, or she’s a fantasist.”<\/p>\n

The Mickey 17 star also said that his daughter won’t fall for his fibs.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think she’d believe me,” he said. “Already I can tell, she can see through me very, very easily.”<\/p>\n

Pattinson has a long history of telling made-up stories about himself while promoting his films. In 2024, he admitted that he fully fabricated a tale<\/a> about witnessing a clown die in a car explosion in a 2011 interview.<\/p>\n

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Robert Pattinson in Los Angeles on March 17, 2026
Credit: Steve Granitz\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n

“There was absolutely no hesitation at all [in my voice],” Pattinson said of his lie in an interview with The New York Times<\/a>‘ T magazine. “I’m like, ‘What on Earth? Are you possessed?'”<\/p>\n

He also claimed that he wasn’t working out<\/a> to play Batman in The Batman during an interview with GQ. “I’m just barely doing anything,” he said. “I think if you’re working out all the time, you’re part of the problem.”<\/p>\n

Two years later, however, he admitted that he wasn’t telling the truth about his workout regimen. “I just always think it’s really embarrassing to talk about how you’re working out,” he told <\/a>MovieMaker. “You’re playing Batman. You have to work out. I think I was doing the interview when I was in lockdown, as well, in England \u2026 I was in a lower gear of working out.”<\/p>\n

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Pattinson also told (or said that he told) his classmates that he was a drug dealer in order to impress older kids at school.<\/p>\n

“My first proper-ish kind of girlfriend was a few years above me, and I always wanted to hang out with the cool kids, who were in the oldest year,” he told GQ<\/a>. “And some of us decided that I’d pretend that I was importing drugs. But I didn’t even know what drugs looked like. So I had this idea I’d get floppy disks, open up the floppy disk, pour this kind of powder stuff inside, and then spray it with, like, some kind of cleaning product so that it’d smell chemical-y, and seal all of it in. I bought, like, 40 floppy disks, and then I’d show it to kids who were probably 15 or 16, and I’d be like: Yeah, I’m importing drugs in floppy discs.”<\/p>\n

Watch Pattinson’s full conversation with Jimmy Kimmel above.<\/p>\n

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