Rihanna responds to rumors that she is infected with the herpes virus in a soul-baring and flesh-flashing interview with the January issue of GQ.

“It’s not true. It’s a fucking scar. On my lip. That’s there every day of my life…..It’s not like it’s hard,” the Rated R star says of rumors that she has been diagnosed with the sexually transmitted disease. “It’s more ignorant. At first I was like, Are you serious? First I thought people were gonna definitely know that that’s not…But when I read it, and I see that people just buy into that…Like, the minute they see it, it forms something in their head….”