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HOLLYWOOD -- Canadian comic Tom Green is now married to Hollywood movie star Drew Barrymore -- maybe.

The two lovebirds have deliberately been lying about their marriage plans for several months, partly as a game to amuse themselves and partly as a ruse to get the media out of their private lives, Green told reporters assembled here on the weekend for interviews about his new gross-out comedy Freddy Got Fingered.

But now they have actually done the deed, in strict privacy, within the last week, probably, Green said. "I can say that we went on a trip and did it very small, just us two."

Green, 29, refused to divulge any details, other than saying the ceremony did not occur in Los Angeles, where he and Barrymore, 25, live together in temporary quarters after their house burned down recently; or in Las Vegas, the mecca for quickie Hollywood marriages; or in Ottawa, Green's home town.

The deliberate lies of the past -- the two announced plans for a Cleveland ceremony and staged a phony marriage set-up and fall-apart on Saturday Night Live -- have made people skeptical now, Green said.

"I'm pretty proud of that. It's pretty cool. So it is somewhat expected and funny that, when we actually went and did it for real, that no one believes us. Certainly, one of the reasons we were joking around with it at the beginning was because we were able to slip out and do it now.

"We did really want to keep it private, just do it for ourselves and not splash pictures of it all over the place."

Asked why he likes to make up stuff about himself, Green turned thoughtful and struggled with the idea.

"You know," he said after a pause, "I'm being serious now in answering the question about how I always lie about these kinds of questions. But I've had fun on my television show (The Tom Green Show on MTV) with playing around with the media, like when I brought Monica Lewinsky up to my home town and had the local press chase us around.

"So I find that somewhat interesting and fun and I think everyone finds it fun. I don't think anyone ever gets angry. They often know that I'm lying."

Which is what he proceeded to do -- probably -- later in the interview. Asked about who should be allowed to see Freddy Got Fingered, Green kept a straight face and said he and Drew will be strict parents, especially about this flick.

"We just adopted a little girl, Hayley, two years old, and I'm quite excited to see what she will think of the movie when she is old enough to see it -- when she turns 19."

Clearly, we think, Green was fibbing about the adoption.

He did get serious again talking about cancer. Green suffered testicular cancer in 2000 and directed and starred in Freddy Got Fingered after his operation and treatments.

"It's been a pretty crazy year for sure for me because of all the cancer and stuff," Green said.

"I definitely jumped into this movie right after I was sick. It's probably affected my overall feeling about life, positively. I think you can deal with things like that (the house fire or any such calamity) better because you have got through a crazy ordeal."

Meanwhile, he now shares his life with his wife -- if you believe what he has to say now.

Tom Green insists he's married