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JoJo Siwa<\/a> has spoken about receiving a cellphone name from Elton John<\/a> after she publicly got here out as homosexual final 12 months.<\/p>\n The singer, dancer and YouTuber mentioned her relationship with John in an interview with E! News<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on Sunday at LA\u2019s Dodger Stadium, the place he performed his remaining ever US live performance.<\/a> \u201cI remember the first time I ever got to meet Elton was backstage at one of his concerts and I got to talk to him for 45 minutes,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cI was only 15 and that conversation changed my life forever.\u201d<\/p>\n When Siwa publicly got here out in January 2021, she received a name from \u201ca random number\u201d within the UK. \u201cAnd I was like: \u2018Who the heck is calling me from the UK?\u2019 So I answer it, cause you know at the same time I\u2019m a teenager,\u201d she continued. \u201c[And John said] \u2018Hello JoJo, darling. This is Elton.\u2019 And I was like: \u2018Mom, get the camera out. It\u2019s Elton John.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0Dance Moms\u00a0<\/em>alumna mentioned that seeing the way in which different celebrities had been accepted once they got here out as LGBTQ+ themselves gave her the braveness to disclose her id to the world. \u201cTo see the way that the world accepted Elton John for who he was, Freddie Mercury for who he was,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cAll of those people who came before me in the gay community made me feel like: \u2018Oh, it\u2019s going to be OK. Those people are who they are, people know them and people love them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n