Billy Corgan claims friend asked him to get DNA test after bizarre Bill Burr half-brother interview

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People magazine that his close friends have grilled him about his half-brother drama with Burr, 56, which came to a head when they both appeared on Howie Mandel’s podcast in January.Corgan said he had to convince his friends that him ambushing Burr, 56, on Mandel’s podcast to discuss their possible familial relationship was not faked for drama.“A really good friend of mine said to me, looking around, ‘Okay, now tell me the truth.’ And I said, ‘I don’t think so.

I don’t think we’re related,'” Corgan told the outlet. “And then my friend said, ‘Well, I think you are.’ And I said, ‘Well, I guess it’s possible because he really does look like my father in a way that’s almost shocking to me.’”He added: “So then my friend goes, ‘Well then get a DNA test.’”The musician reiterated that, despite his friends’ and some fans’ suspicions, the podcast ambush incident wasn’t “a bit.”“It was one of those rare moments where I think all three of us really didn’t know where it was going.

And you see that, and that’s what makes it sort of interesting,” Corgan explained. “There’s enough energy there that that’s why it’s not a bit, because it’s really about confronting something in a way that none of us really knew what that confrontation would lead to, and you see it play out.

You see jokes, but you also see kind of like, oh, there’s something there.”“It’s taken on a life of its own. It’s sort of strange,” he added of the half-brother situation. “It really started from honest things, which are, my father may have fathered 12 other children, and the facts of Bill’s life actually do match the story that I was told.