Lady Gaga says fame made her so lonely it was “painful” and admits she
cried in the arms of staff she barely knew when she was hassled in
public. The singer, while discussing her rise to fame, reveals she found
it hard to connect with her old friends in New York when she became an
overnight star in 2008 around the release of Just Dance.
“Your
whole life changes,” she says. “The atmosphere, the energy around you,
the responsibility, it just zaps you into a rollercoaster. “I don’t
think I will ever feel comfortable with fame.”
She does, however, say she is slightly more comfortable with being approached
in public. “Now 90% of the time I don’t give a s*** if someone has a camera in my face at the grocery store,” she says.
“I used to really shut down, get emotional, run to my
car and cry – hold my security guard and weep in the arms of people
that I didn’t even maybe really know that well yet, they just worked
with me.
“I really had a hard time. It’s quite overwhelming.”
The 30-year-old singer also admits she also struggled to stay in touch with former friends in the club scene in New York.
“It was one of the most painful things I’ve emotionally had to deal with,” she reveals.
“It
was so hard, not only because I missed them, but because I missed being
there and living there, and my life there and nothing about being
famous or making money ever trumped that.
“I felt at a deficit in
a serious way and then you still have to be creative and artistic, but
my muses are gone. Where are they? I needed them.
“But I’m
friends with them all still. Lady Starlight, she has opened for me on
every world tour I’ve ever done, arena tours, stadiums around the world.
“In
that way I have felt healed, because what was important to me was to
support and love the people that inspired me, the same way they gave to
me, I wanted to give to them.
“None of them have ever made me feel weird or awkward about money or needing things.
“They’ve always all been about the art, all about the talent and all about working hard.”
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