Paul Anka reassured TMZ founder Harvey Levin that he was not lying when it came to his comments regarding Frank Sinatra's manhood in a recent interview.
"There is one other thing I wanna get into, which you alluded to in one of the interviews...Sinatra's schlong," said Levin, who laughed off the prompt while groans from people nearby can be heard. "Well, you said it!"
Anka provided his side of the story, admitting he was thrown off by Page Six digital reporter Nicki Gostin's question about Sinatra's penis. In the HBO documentary Paul Anka: His Way, the 84-year-old singer recalled being in the sauna with The Rat Pack, which compelled Gostin to ask if the rumors about Sinatra are true.
Anka said his response was predicated on what Sinatra's second wife Ava Gardner told a reporter in 1952 while she was watching him perform at the Hollywood Palladium, according to St. Louis Magazine.
When asked what she saw in Sinatra, calling him a "119-pound has-been," Gardner replied, as reported by Variety Fair, "Well, I'll tell you—nineteen pounds is cock."
"I said that, knowing that it's out there," Anka said. "It wasn’t any new revelation. And then I said to Nicki, 'So, what does that do for you?"
Page Six posted footage of Gostin's conversation with Anka, in which she simply responded, "It just makes me happy hearing that."
Anka and Sinatra will forever be linked by the former hearing the French song "Comme d’habitude," buying the rights to the song, and writing the English version that became known as "My Way."