Twilight star Robert Pattinson “got in trouble at school” for saying his dad, Richard, was Michael Jackson.
Robert Pattinson got in trouble for lying that his dad was Michael Jackson.
As a schoolboy, the star played a song by the late King of Pop – who died in June 2009 aged 50 – during show and tell, and Robert fibbed to his classmates that it was his dad Richard singing because he had “been taking this medicine called ginkgo biloba”.
Appearing on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night (19.03.26), Robert, 39, noted that he has lied since being a child: “I kinda thought it was something which I did when I was older, just ’cause of interviews, but I did get in trouble quite a lot for doing that.”
Jimmy, 58, pressed Robert on where he “got in trouble”, to which the star replied: “I got in trouble at school. I said my dad was Michael Jackson in show and tell.
“Do you know ginkgo biloba? I always really liked the name of the pills.
“And then I guess my parents were both taking that, and I had this tape, I just recorded a tape – Michael Jackson’s actual album, recorded it, and said, ‘My dad’s been taking this medicine called ginkgo biloba, and this is him singing. And I got in lots of trouble for that.”
Jimmy quipped that Robert could lie “all the time now about Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny” to his and 34-year-old wife, actress Suki Waterhouse’s two-year-old daughter – whose name has never been publicly revealed.
However, the Mickey 17 star thinks his bundle of joy will sniff out the untruth.
Robert said: “I don’t think she’ll believe me. Already, I can tell, she can see through me very, very easily.”
Jimmy suggested that maybe the actor’s daughter also has a penchant for lying.
The Lighthouse cast member revealed: “She could find it very easy to lie to herself already. She’ll walk into a room, she’s like, ‘I see…giraffe!’ And I’m like, ‘You do?’ And it’s incredibly convincing. She’s either got a sixth sense, or she’s a fantasist.”
In 2022, Robert shared how he lied to his classmates that he was “importing drugs in floppy discs” to impress children older than him at school.
The Twilight alum explained to GQ: “I haven’t thought about this in years, but during secondary school, my first proper-ish kind of girlfriend was a few years above me, and I always wanted to hang out with the cool kids, who were in the oldest year.
“And some of us decided that I’d pretend that I was importing drugs. But I didn’t even know what drugs looked like.
“So I had this idea I’d get floppy disks, open up the floppy disk, pour this kind of powder stuff inside, and then spray it with, like, some kind of cleaning product so that it’d smell chemical-y, and seal all of it in.
“I bought, like, 40 floppy disks, and then I’d show it to kids who were probably 15 or 16, and I’d be like, ‘Yeah, I’m importing drugs in floppy disks.’
“And everybody believed me. And I kind of got this reputation that, ‘This kid is crazy. He’s a drug dealer!’ Like, ‘Want to try some? Some sawdust with Febreze on it?'”
Twilight’s Robert Pattinson lied that his dad was Michael Jackson in school
