Gwen Stefani has said she is Japanese in a recent interview and then doubled down on her words.
You wouldn't think it considering she was born in California to an Italian-American father and Irish-American mother, and the singer isn't actually claiming to originally be from Japan, but it's clear she's a really big fan.
Allure magazine about the launch of her new vegan beauty brand, was asked about her Harajuku Girls era and told a story about her father working for Japanese company Yamaha for 18 years.
He travelled between the US and Japan a lot, introducing his daughter to Japanese culture, which she very much enjoyed.
She said: "That was my Japanese influence and that was a culture that was so rich with tradition, yet so futuristic [with] so much attention to art and detail and discipline and it was fascinating to me.
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The explained that when she travelled to the Harajuku district of Tokyo she said to herself 'my God, I'm Japanese and I didn't know it', telling the interviewer 'I am, you know'.
Describing herself as a 'super fan' of Japanese culture, she said there was an 'innocence' involved with her relationship to it, saying it 'doesn't feel right' that people would criticise her for 'being a fan of something beautiful'.
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