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Marat Safin recalls his embarrassing 'gay' moment

Updated on: 03 October,2018 10:26 AM IST  | 
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A co-passenger on Marat Safin's flight, read an article about Safin that he is gay and he is going to Germany to become normal again. "The guy closes the paper, he looks at me, I look at him and I say, No no, it's not true."

Marat Safin recalls his embarrassing 'gay' moment

Marat Safin

Former World No. 1 tennis star Marat Safin, who is currently a Russian politician, recently revealed one of his most embarrassing moment in his life when a fellow passenger believed that he was gay while on a flight.


Narrating the incident, Safin said in an interview to International Premier Tennis League: "I was sitting on a plane and a guy sitting next to me is reading a Russian newspaper, yellow press.


Suddenly he turns the page and he reads an article about me that I am gay and I am going to Germany to become normal again. The guy closes, he looks at me, I look at him and I say, No no, it's not true."


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