Lady Gaga reflected on her humble roots on Wednesday and acknowledged a now-deleted Facebook group started by some of her classmates at New York University titled: “Stefani Germanotta, You’ll Never Be Famous.” Screenshots of the community, which Gaga calls by her birth name, have been circulating online among fans for several years.
Gaga publicly confronted the group’s existence by commenting on a TikTok about it. The original post posted a screenshot of the 12-member Facebook group alongside a list of the star’s many accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, thirteen Grammy Awards, ten Billboard Music Awards and eighteen MTV Music Video Awards.
“Some people I went to college with [with] made this way back then,” Gaga wrote on the post. “This is why you can’t give up when people doubt you or let you down – you have to keep going.”
Gaga attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the years before releasing her first studio album, “The Fame.” She withdrew from NYU in 2005 and began performing in New York clubs while developing her stage persona.
Joaquin Phoenix, Gaga and director Todd Phillips recently brought their comic book sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux” to the Venice Film Festival, where the film earned a lengthy standing ovation after its premiere. The film can be seen in cinemas from October 4.
“Todd took a really big turn with this whole concept and with the script, giving the sequel to ‘Joker’ this boldness and complexity,” Gaga said. Variety in a cover story about the film. “There’s music, there’s dancing, it’s a drama, it’s also a courtroom drama, it’s a comedy, it’s happy, it’s sad. It’s proof of that [Todd] as a director he prefers to be creative rather than just tell a traditional love story.”
