Sunday, 12 July 2009

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Lady GaGa: My dad thought I was crazy and doing drugs

Singer opens up about her family

Lady GaGa loves to shock in outrageous oufits

Lady GaGa fell out with her dad when she launched her music career.

The singer, 23 - real name Stefani Germanotta - took to the stage in New York just 6 months after leaving college.

But her raunchy outfits proved too much for father Joseph Germanotta. 

‘I was performing in a leopard G-string and a black tank top,’ Lady GaGa reveals. 

‘[My dad] thought I was crazy. It wasn’t: “She’s inappropriate” or “She’s a bad girl” or “She’s a slut”. He thought I was nuts, that I was doing drugs and had lost my mind and had no concept of reality any more. For my father, it was an issue of sanity.'

The pair have since made up and rebuilt their relationship.

‘Eventually he came around,' Lady GaGa tells The Observer Magazine.

'The record deals didn’t hurt. He loves me for what I am. I grabbed a guy today on set, he laughed. He loves it. He thinks I'm wonderful and thank God. If he didn't, I would be a different Lady GaGa.'

Siobhan Baranian