Nicola Sturgeon denies defamatory internet gossip that she’s a ‘secret lesbian’ and says she’s LAUGHED about it with a French diplomat she allegedly had an affair with, but the rumors were ‘maybe part of the reason’ for the who resigned as Prime Minister.
- She has rejected claims that she owns a property portfolio and is a ‘secret lesbian’
- Users even say that he had an extramarital affair with a diplomat.
Nicola Sturgeon has claimed extraordinary internet rumors about her personal life were “part of the reason” she resigned as Prime Minister.
Speaking about her renewed quest for privacy in the wake of her shock resignation, Ms Sturgeon said yesterday that defamatory gossip on social media had led her to want more anonymity.
In particular, she rejected claims online that she was the proud owner of an expensive portfolio of global properties, as well as being a “secret lesbian.”
In a remarkable account that is often repeated on the Internet, users say that he had an extramarital affair with a French diplomat.
Some of the rumors allege that the couple bought tennis legend Judy Murray’s former home in Bridge of Allan to use as a secret love nest.
Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday that defamatory gossip on social media had led her to seek more privacy.
Nicola Sturgeon, pictured with her husband Peter Murrell, has rejected online claims that she is a ‘secret lesbian’
And other outlandish claims have suggested that Ms Sturgeon may withhold the ‘truth’ from the public under a court-imposed ‘super commandment’.
But speaking on a new BBC podcast, the former prime minister debunked the outlandish cyber theories, saying: “I read accounts of my life on social media and I think, ‘You know, it sounds so much more glamorous and so much more.’ exciting’. You know I have houses everywhere if you believe social media.
Asked by BBC Scotland political editor Glenn Campbell: “Which French diplomat are you having an affair with?” she laughed and replied, “I’ll tell you off-camera which one it’s supposed to be, but whatever it is, we’ve actually laughed about it.”
Taking a more serious tone later in the interview, Ms Sturgeon admitted that perhaps the gossip had gotten to her.
Saying it’s “maybe part of the reason” she’s resigning, she said: “I’m not naive, I’m not of the opinion that I’ll resign one day and be completely anonymous the next, I understand the realities of what I’ve done. and I’ll still be in parliament, but I want to have a little more privacy, I want to have a little more anonymity and I just want to protect something that people take for granted in their lives that I’ve forgotten to have.
Ms Sturgeon added that she was looking forward to going out for a coffee, while a friend speaking on the podcast suggested that she might continue to enjoy walks – something which, while Prime Minister, she couldn’t do without three security guards accompanying her. .
In her last television interview today before resigning, Nicola Sturgeon said she felt “a little sad” but was still confident she had made the right decision.
The former SNP leader also used the second episode of BBC Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon series to share how “painfully shy” she is, an attribute she says is actually a “secret superpower”.
In the interview, he added: “I carry a pretty healthy dose of self-doubt with me even now…
‘I guess I’ve always had within me a kind of fire in my stomach, a drive and a determination to get through it all.
“So I never made all of that go away, but I worked really hard to get over it and I came to the conclusion: sure, there are downsides to being like that when you’re in politics and some of the things that people say about me operating in a circle very closed internally and I’m not very clubbable, some of that is routed in shyness.
“Probably, over the years, it has also led me to have a more austere and stern personality that otherwise would not have been the case, but I have come to the conclusion that it has actually been my secret superpower because that need From constantly overcoming any shyness, self-doubt, it becomes a need to prove yourself.
She added that she suffered from what some would call ‘impostor syndrome’, adding: ‘I have always felt the need to be the best version of myself, to work harder than everyone around me, to constantly prove that I am up to the task. job. …’
The second episode of the podcast series, called Nicola – The Person, will be available on BBC Sounds from 5am today, April 2.