Kenny Chesney Addresses Gay Rumors

Kenny Chesney wants you to know that he's not gay. There has been speculation ever since divorce papers filed by Renee Zellweger listed fraud among the reasons for the divorce. Some thought that was code for "Kenny Chesney is gay." Turns out they were wrong.

E! Online reports that the subject came up during an interview for 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper. The interview airs this Sunday. Here's what he said:

"It's not true. Period. Maybe I should have come out and said, 'No, I'm not [gay],' but I didn't want to draw any more attention to it," Chesney told Cooper. "I didn't have to prove to anybody that I wasn't [gay]. I didn't feel like I really did."

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"The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was like…that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn't."

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"Even though I'd sit here and say I wish we'd gotten divorced instead of all that annulment stuff, and saved me a lot of public humiliation…I still don't have any regrets," he said. "I loved her, you know? And it was real."

Photo from E! Online.