Lorde has addressed the backlash aimed at Chappell Roan after the Hot To Go star asked if she ‘was nonbinary now’.
On her latest album, Virgin, Lorde explored her gender with tracks like Man of the Year after trying chest binding for the first time.
She described her gender expression as ‘expansive’, stating she was ‘somewhere in the middle’ of a man and a woman.
In Rolling Stone, the Current Affairs singer, 28, revealed that Chappell, 27, had reached out and asked ‘So, are you nonbinary now?’.
However, this sparked huge discourse and backlash online, directed at The Subway hitmaker for being inappropriate with her seemingly blunt tone.
Lorde has now said she ‘misquoted’ Chappell and now feels ‘really bad’ as the conversation was not as uninvited as it seemed. ‘She said, very sweetly,