United Kingdom, March 21 -- Robert Pattinson got in trouble for lying that his dad was Michael Jackson.

As a schoolboy, the star played a song by the late King of Pop - who died in June 2009 aged 50 - during show and tell, and Robert fibbed to his classmates that it was his dad Richard singing because he had "been taking this medicine called ginkgo biloba".

Appearing on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night (19.03.26), Robert, 39, noted that he has lied since being a child: "I kinda thought it was something which I did when I was older, just 'cause of interviews, but I did get in trouble quite a lot for doing that."

Jimmy, 58, pressed Robert on where he "got in trouble", to which the star replied: "I got in trouble at school. I sa...