Did Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Miranda Lambert, Vince Gill, Derek Hough, Brandon Lake, Cliff Richard, athletes Dak Prescott and Lamar Jackson and other celebrities ask for their footage to be removed from Netflix over LGBTQ content? No, that’s not true: There are multiple social media posts showing different celebrities and athletes with a message that they told Netflix to cut all of their footage from an upcoming documentary about their work. At the time of writing, there was no such post on any of the celebrities’ or athletes’ social media accounts with posts matching the message.
One example appeared in an October 29, 2025 post on Facebook account @AvrilUncovered (archived here) about singer Avril Lavigne. It opened with an image of Lavigne and a message:
I have asked Netflix to remove all of my scenes from the film because I no longer want to be associated with the project.
This is the image included in the Facebook post at the time of writing:
Image Source: Facebook account @AvrilUncovered screenshot taken by Lead Stories.
A search on X of the @AvrilLavigne account with the quote did not find any matching posts as this screenshot shows:
Image Source: X search screenshot taken by Lead Stories.
Lead Stories ran the text on the Facebook post through AI detection tools on GPTZero.me and the results said that snippet was 99% likely written by AI, as this screenshot shows:
Image Source: GPTZero.me website screenshot taken by Lead Stories.
The page transparency tab of the “Avril Uncovered” Facebook page (archived here) indicates it is being managed from Vietnam, Philippines, and the United States as this screenshot shows:
Image Source: Facebook account @AvrilUncovered screenshot taken by Lead Stories.
The Vietnam origin does not, in and of itself, prove the post is fake, but Lead Stories has debunked many other AI-generated fake stories originating from Facebook pages managed overseas and linking to low-quality fly-by-night websites, which could be characterized as “made-for-advertising” or MFA sites (archived here), which harvest advertiser fees with little investment in site content.
Lavigne is not the only victim of the false claim, as Lead Stories previously debunked the claim that Carlos Santana demanded Netflix remove his work from a movie.
A Facebook search (archived here) by Lead Stories showing numerous fake posts purporting to be from celebrities saying that they want Netflix to remove their scenes from a film. Lead Stories created a Gif to show the many celebrities who have fake posts attributed to them:
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