13 Most Intimate Revelations from Lady Gaga On "Oprah"
We knew going into Sunday's Lady Gaga sit-down on Oprah's Next Chapter that, other than this interview, Lady Gaga did not intend to speak to anyone for a very long time. (We knew it because the show leaked a clip of Gaga saying, "Other than this interview… I do not intend to speak to anyone for a very long time.")
To make up for it, Gaga’s chat on the Oprah Winfrey Network lasted two hours. And it was great. As an added bonus, she was joined for part of it by her mom, who’s never been interviewed before.
In case for some weird reason you missed the show and accidentally spent the evening watching Celebrity Apprentice, here are the 13 most interesting things we learned about Lady Gaga:
1. She is homeless.
The interview took place in her childhood home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where her parents still live. (It’s at 70th St and Broadway, if you believe the street signs shown). “I actually don’t own a house,” Gaga admitted. “I'm a wandering gypsy. So I sleep upstairs whenever I come to New York.”
2. Her parents keep her GRAMMYs in a hutch in the corner.
But there’s a rule in the Gaga household: For every award of Gaga’s that goes up, they also put up something from her sister.
3. She wrote “The Edge of Glory” while doing tequila shots with her dad.
They were sitting at the family piano in the New York apartment. Her grandfather was about to pass away, and she was comforting her father. While sharing a bottle of tequila. “I started playing, and I said to my dad, ‘Don't be sad… look at how much he won in life. He's on the edge of a glorious moment.’” The song only took her 10 minutes to write. “By the time we got through it, my dad was crying, I was crying and the bottle was half empty.”
4. Her biggest influence was Whitney Houston.
She was particularly blown away by Houston’s performance of “The Star Spangled Banner” at the 1991 Super Bowl. “I used to stand at the top of the staircase and sing ‘The Star Spangled Banner” every single day after school.”
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