Sir Elton John has revealed that he was bullied even after becoming famous by some \u201cimportant\u201d people in his life and career.
\nThe 65-year-old singer, who has one-year-old son Zachary with partner David Furnish, admits that he was tormented by some of the key players in his career, and was even hit by one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was about control and them being able to keep me under their thumb, and I was the perfect candidate for it. Even though I was famous and a big deal, it doesn\u2019t matter, it\u2019s who you are underneath that, and I was always kind of shy and intimidated,\u201d Contactmusic quoted him as telling E! News.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne was violent and the other two were mentally violent. They were very important people in my life. They were important people in my career and in my personal life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Grammy Award winner, who is working on an anti-bullying campaign with Lady Gaga urges victims to tell someone if they are being targeted. \u201cSpeak out, speak out. Snitch on them. Try to defend yourself, not like me, who hid it and thought it was okay to just go on like it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Addressing the bullies, John asks them to look insider themselves and work out the reason for their behaviour.
\n\u201cYour insecurities are what drive you to do this. You need to consider your consequences. I\u2019m sure underneath it, you\u2019re all very nice people.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve all made mistakes in our life – this is a good time now to correct your mistakes and help people.
\n\u201cWe have to nip this in the bud, too many people have died. Too many young people have committed suicide because they\u2019ve been frightened of 15 to 16-year-olds,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He acknowledges that son Zachary could fall victim to bullies when he reaches school age, but prays he will speak out.
\n\u201cI know by being two same-sex parents that when my boy goes to school he\u2019s probably going to have some people saying, \u2018Oh you don\u2019t have a mummy\u2019,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sir Elton John has revealed that he was bullied even after becoming famous by some \u201cimportant\u201d people in his life and career. The 65-year-old singer, who has one-year-old son Zachary with partner David Furnish, admits that he was tormented by some of the key players in his career, and was even hit by one. \u201cIt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}