Show me a picture of the actual interview and yes, you can say its true.They only see it in Japan because the interviews are not plublished in the manga "booklets" that include several chapters of Naruto, those are published after several releases. They are published in Shounen Jump, the magazine that includes one chapter of several manga just as Bleach, Naruto, and several others.
Now, I can only say the interview I posted to be true.
Until then its just a copied and pastied bit of writing filling up secondary sourced websites and forums.
That proves nothing.