Tyler Lepley Denies Rumors That He’s Gay And Also Dismisses Claims About Tyler Perry
Tyler Lepley is setting the record straight: The actor recently appeared on Angela Yee’s podcast “Lip Service” to talk about his successful career and a few rumors that have been circulating for a while.
While speaking with Yee and co-hosts Lore’l and Gigi Maguire, he discussed rumors saying that he and Tyler Perry, who directs his hit show “The Have and The Have Nots”, are gay. During the podcast, Tyler denied that he’s gay and also dismissed those claims against Perry as well.
He explained: “I remember when I first started out, I was seeing it here and there,” the 33-year-old star said of the rumors. “For whatever reason, people were associating it with my first show.” Lepley went on saying, “I came out on a Tyler Perry show and for whatever reason he gets a rap like that and I know Tyler [Perry] personally and he’s not gay. I was seen around him and all of a sudden ‘he’s rubbing off on me’ and people felt like I was gay or something like that.”
From there, Lepley talked about people’s perception of his masculinity, saying: “I had done something while I was on the set of ‘P-Valley.’ Maybe I was with Clifford or I think I was taking a picture with [J. Alphonse Nicholson] who plays Little Murda, and people started off with the gay thing again,” he recalled. “I think if you have a space that people can’t figure out, they can just create a judgment.”
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