Alejandro Fernández Gay Club Photo: Singer Opens Up After Vegas Night, Girlfriend Defends Him

Alejandro Fernández was the center of a controversy last week when he went to Las Vegas to celebrate the 33rd birthday and bachelor party of his friend Alejandro Valladares, along with other friends and loved ones. The group went to XS Club to continue the celebrations, where Fernández ended up drinking a little too much and taking off his shirt. Some “fans” recognized him and requested a photo with him, to which he agreed. Eventually the photo was made public, and all hell broke lose for the Mexican singer.

For a while now, people have been questioning Alejandro’s sexuality, and a picture where he looked very disheveled and intoxicated while posing shirtless between two men, was just the fuel the haters needed. After social media went crazy creating memes with the photo, “El Potrillo” seemed to have taken the controversy lightheartedly, even publishing a meme on his Instagram account of the same photo with his body covered with a tuxedo. The post reads “This is the real photo. Haters will say it’s Photoshopped,” and he captioned it: “What happens in Vegas stays in Google.”

He later said the same thing on a post on Facebook. “To be honest the situation amuses me and it surprises me how something so foolish could turn into something so big. But even though I’ve laughed it off, I feel like I should open my heart, and recognize that I also feel deeply embarrassed,” Fernández wrote in a post.

“In this day and age, everyone is exposed to social media (what happens in Las Vegas today lives in Google forever) and we have to be a bit more conscious and careful with our actions, because cell phones and social media have sadly ended with our privacy and intimacy,” the singer continued. “Besides, we’ve turned social media into this century’s lynching square. We all talk, we all think we know and we dare judge others without really knowing the context, turning this platform into a garden where we cultivate hate, violence and defamation.”

Meanwhile, Fernández’s alleged girlfriend, Karla Laveaga, who was also in Vegas with “El Potrillo” and the group, posted a very serious selfie on Instagram with the caption “I think the world needs happy people with a high dose of madness and a clean conscience,” and later posted a throwback photo of the party at XS Club.