Robert Pattinsonhas been lying for a long time.
TheLighthousestar reflected on his predilection for public fibbing during an interview withJimmy Kimmel Livewhile promoting his new filmThe Dramaon Thursday, noting that he's been stretching the truth since his youth.
"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."
The first childhood lie that came to mind? "I said my dad wasMichael Jacksonat show and tell," theTwilightactor recalled.
Pattinson said that his bizarre mistruth stemmed from his childhood fascination with ginkgo biloba supplements.
"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 — Michael 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."
Unfortunately for Pattinson, his condition might be hereditary, as he said that lying comes easily to his daughter, whom he welcomed with his fiancée Suki Waterhouse in March 2024.
"She could find it very easy to lie to herself already," he explained. "She'll walk into a room, she's like, 'I see…giraffe!' And I'm like, 'You do?' And it's incredibly convincing. She's either got a sixth sense, or she's a fantasist."
TheMickey 17star also said that his daughter won't fall for his fibs.
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"I don't think she'd believe me," he said. "Already I can tell, she can see through me very, very easily."
Pattinson has a long history of telling made-up stories about himself while promoting his films. In 2024, he admitted that he fullyfabricated a taleabout witnessing a clown die in a car explosion in a 2011 interview.
"There was absolutely no hesitation at all [in my voice]," Pattinson said of his lie in an interview withThe New York Times'Tmagazine. "I'm like, 'What on Earth? Are you possessed?'"
He also claimed that hewasn't working outto play Batman inThe Batmanduring an interview withGQ. "I'm just barely doing anything," he said. "I think if you're working out all the time, you're part of the problem."
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," hetoldMovieMaker. "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 … I was in a lower gear of working out."
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Pattinson also told (orsaidthat he told) his classmates that he was a drug dealer in order to impress older kids at school.
"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," hetoldGQ. "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."
Watch Pattinson's full conversation with Jimmy Kimmel above.
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