Lady Gaga was “thrown in trash by bullies”
By Alexandra Heilbron on May 19, 2011 | 59 Comments
Lady Gaga, 25, who recently appeared as a mentor on American Idol, told a media outlet that she was a target for bullies when she was younger. During her appearance on Idol, she admitted she would never have been chosen as a contestant because she was too weird. Now she says when she was in high school, she was thrown into a garbage can because of her “eccentric” ways. She told the Guardian Weekend: “I’m eccentric and talkative and audacious and theatrical, and I used to get picked on. I got thrown in a trash can on a street corner once by some boys who were hanging out with girls in my class. I got profanity written all over my locker at school and all the others were nice and clean. I got pinched in the hallways and called a sl*t.” She says the experience left her feeling “worthless. Embarrassed. Mortified. I was 14. Three boys put me in it. The girls were laughing when they did it.” She’s come a long way since then, however, which proves that popularity in high school isn’t a key to success.
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So right. Popularity in high school means nothing. So many successful people were once nerds in high school (Bill Gates) and/or weird, like Lady Gaga. And look at them now.
I love Gaga and the messages she sends. Bless her!!
I like the idea the Lady Gaga is so different from me on the outside but just the same as me on the inside. She truly pushes the envelope and I love it!
That’s where she belongs in my opinion.
Lady Gaga sends a great message to girls, that it’s ok to be different and to never let the bullies keep you down!
Why Germain ? You getting lonely in there ?
Complain about it all you want. Where we come from shapes who we are. She probably wouldn’t be who she it today if she didn’t taste a little garbage!
Gaga is a bit too weird for my taste, but every once in a while she has something worth listening too.
Somebody put the lid on Germains garbage can and seal it. Lady Gaga is a beautiful and creative person.
Yes…a former stripper and hard-core drug user is a great role model for young girls these days!
She knows what she is doing. Look at where she is today, a multi-millionaire. She is an entertainer. Inside, she has a kind way. She ‘has’ helped alot of people. If I could be up there entertaining and making that amount of money, I would too:)
The important thing is that if you don’t like Lady Gaga’s music or videos, don’t listen or watch. Everyone has the right to entertain to a certain audience.
So I guess we could say we found one of the culprits. Hey Germaine!
HAHA!! It’s always funny to see how a simple comment makes people get all offended like I was talking about your sister, girlfriend or mother. She’s a weird singer who’s exentricity is only an image to get people to talk about her. Although she does have a great voice, her “Born this Way” single is a knock off of Madonna”s Express Yourself song musically and message as well so that’s how creative she is.
Singers, celebrities, actors are all human. They’re regular people, they’re not gods but they put themselves on pedestals because of idiots that want to know everything about them and think they’re god’s gift to humanity.
She’s just as trashy as all other femal singers that uses sexuality and publicity stunts to sell more albums. Ride that DISCO STICK, yeah, lyrics from a philanthropist right?
Let’s not forget she was probably still a boy when the garbage thing happened.
Me feelings for Lady Gaga are as mixed as her gender – part of me sort of respects what she’s done as an artist, but I recently saw some of her HBO special and there was a lot of pretentious nonsense on there. The whole “Show Me Your Teeth” bit made me want to knock out her teeth.
When will her 15 minutes of fame end and she go hang out with William Hung in the land of the celebrity lost?
Yahh alot of tranny’s got trannies get thrown in garbage cans. The profanity probably was more like homophobic slurs, all boys that dress like girls when they are young get made fun of. Thats LIFE!
That is soooo sad…..
While watching American Idol we saw Lady Gaga do her thing and my grandson (9 years old) looked at me and said…”that is inappropriate”. Out of the mouth of babes…just goes to show that even small children understand what would be acceptable behavior, especially for family viewing. She may be talented, (I do like some of her hits) but she needs to know when to draw the line.
I love her voice. Not the image she portrays.
Once the “glam” part of her act gets old, then what??
To me, she’s a rip off of every other “out there” artist.
She’s a 2000’s version of what Madonna was in the 80’s and what Cher was to the 70s.
she should be thrown in the garbage now.
Er, I mean she is a f***ing hack.
I mean it is a hack. Why can’t so many people see that they have no talent? Wake up folks.
I was pretty thrilled until I found that this incident happen a long time ago.
School bullies are awful. I would know, I had one myself when I was young. I feel for Gaga and understand exactly what she’s saying–it’s amazing how much being bullied as a kid affects you when you are older (even if you didn’t realize)…
School bullies need to die. Something needs to be done in schools to SERIOUSLY combat bullying.
Nobody actually knows who she really is. You can’t generalize by saying she is like all other female celebrities, nor can you say she is all great and fantastic. All we see is what media feeds us, and nothing else. We know what they know. They don’t know her; they take what info they can get to make a story. You can make all the assumptions you want, but you’ll never have the full story.
@ Sara: I agree wholeheartedly with you. Well said.
Awwww, her first “little monsters”…. a heart warming story.
Whats even weirder is as you go through life and you end up running into people who picked on you when you were younger they think they can pick up where they left off. it sucks
Why oh why does the media twist stories, correct title is: ‘Lady GaGa was diven HOME by boys when she was younger.’
I’m totally appalled at what I’m hearing here.
You don’t have to like her, she’s a human being like all the rest of us. NO ONE deserves that kind of treatment from anyone else. WHO CARES if you don’t hold to her beliefs, how would you feel if someone threw you in the trash, because you stuck by your beliefs.
I’m so incredibly sick of how people treat others.
IT DOES NOT MATTER if you are redhead, Jewish, Polish, Black, Gay, rich or poor! What matters is, that we should be treating others with RESPECT!!
And we wonder what the Hell is wrong with this world!
can you guys please stfu , ? seriously . shes living her live , live urs, dont like how shes living it, THEN DONT LISTEN TO HER OR WATCH HER HARRD. lady gaga is lady gaga ,just like u r u. && if you have nothing positive to say about lady gaga dont say anything but whose the one making millions everyday ? not you, so stfo && GTFO. OHH and too parents you were once a kid so go shove a disco stick up ur ass . hypocrites
WELL DONE MELODY!!
you said it girl!
im behind you all the way!
Colleen, Melody, ever heard of freedom of speech. I’ll say what I DAMN WELL PLEASE!! I don’t have a choice to listen, my kids love that shit, go figure. That’s what I don’t like, they look up to a freakin tramp half naked talking about riding a disco stick. What can I say, she was born this way right? You can call me an hypocrite all you want, it won’t change the fact that kids look up to those sluts and it concerns me so you can take your righteous speeches and shove it up your ass.
I’m not questioning the human being, i’m questioning the material, the videos, the lyrics, the wardrobe, the god damn machine that produces this product that only because they can sing a catchy tune, they think they can save the world and idiots like you help them believe it.
Before you teach morals to me, look at yourself and your lifestyle and the shit you see on the internet and tv and think for once in your life. IS THIS WHAT I WANT FOR MY KIDS. WHO CARES if she makes millions, rich celebrities live and die too, overdose, alcohol, HIV shit you think money saved them????
lol “go shove a disco stick up ur ass . hypocrites”
that killed me
Melody and Co, same to you, plus any other crap that you might care to hurl at those expressing an opinion. Anyone in a position of influence for tomorrow’s adult citizens may certainly expect a good deal of scrutiny…. get over yourself!
@Colleen! Well said, I 100% agree with you! Most people on the internet who say mean things are being bullies and at least half of them probably don’t even realize they are being a bully.
What about the old saying ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all”.. why can’t more people just live by that? It’s alright not to like someone, but you don’t know her personally, so you really don’t have anything to judge her by. I’m not a fan of Angelina Jolie or Uma Thurman and I wasn’t a fan of Michael Jackson, but I never said anything bad about them or made fun of them after reading a story about them online.
I feel for Lady Gaga, I was too bullied in my preteen and teen years, not quite as badly it seems, and it took me ten years after it all to completely get over it all and not be affected by my now friends jokes that relate to what I was being teased about in junior and senior high school. (Not that my friends now a days know exactly what I was teased about or what was said.).
Mark how em i talking about myself ?
im defending gaga , people who critize a person when they DONT know them,is pathetic and a coward. when they say “she should get thrown in the garbage ” through a computer just says “HEY ,im a bully and im pathetic” …….well mark i guess your one of those people who have no respect for themselves or anybody else. good luck dying alone.
LETS GO TEAM GAGA && THE LITTLE MONSTERS ! 🙂
dammme melody youu a rude bitch but thats why i like you;)
Melody wrote… “Mark how em i talking about myself ?” I didn’t say you were talking about yourself. I merely said that you were welcome to the same profanity that you saw fit to cast on others who were expressing an opinion. Again, you are welcome to it. Alone? It would seem that I am far from alone given the majority opinion here… Perhaps you are the one afraid of being alone, sniff, sniff… good luck with that.
im married, smartass. no matter how much i hate the person i dont purposely try to bring them down.
Idiots, we’re not bringing anyone down, SHE WILL NEVER READ THIS. We’re just giving our opinion, you say she’s great and all that bullshit, why can’t we say she isn’t? Because we don’t have the same opinion as you, we can’t say anything??
Melody, your not bringing anyone down, no matter how much you hate them (that’s what you said), sorry but those were your words right? “HEY ,im a bully and im pathetic” and “good luck dying alone”. Sorry but I call BULLSHIT!!
I din’t say anything about anyone here unless they attacked me first. I give my opinion on the article and the story and I can be blunt because they don’t read these articles so I know I’m not hurting anyone but because you don’t like what we say, you start a war. Just give your opinion about the article and let the others think what they want.
Your actions contradict your words…. with such logic I’m surprised that you’d hazard an argument at all…
Just to clarify, as my comment seems to have been bumped out of order, my last was in response to Melody, not you Germain.
I find it funny when someone comes on here and defends the people in the article (who will likely never read this, and who have probably seen a whole lot worse than this written about themselves in the tabloids), by criticizing people who ARE reading this. These threads are for people to give their opinion on the article, no matter what that opinion is, so someone ripping apart the opinion of someone else is truly pathetic.
She sounds too much like madonna and acts like her. Trying to push sexuality, and political celebrity rubbish. I think she will date a basketball bad boy soon.
I like Lady Ga Ga. I also understand her, as I too was the victim of bullying. It taught me to be strong minded as an adult and to stick up for myself. Lady gaga used her bad experiences as a spring-board into her music talent and song writing. She became the best she could be because she needed to prove to those bullying her that she’s better than they are and she did just that!
Yea, she’s weird, she dresses funny, and provocative but so does Elton John, Cher, Madonna, Alice Cooper, KISS and on and on and on. Hey it sells, get over it! We love the drama and the over-the-top in-your-face dressing it makes us want to see more and more…we can’t help ourselves we just have to look.
I certainly can’t picture Pat Boone or Donny & Marie doing that for me or some of the other more up-to-date conservative type of singers of today getting that kind of attention from the public.
As for being a good example for kids, well, if you are dumb enough to believe that celebrities are supposed to be your kids mentors in life than you need to get your head examined. As a parent you are your child’s best mentor, and next to that there are people like, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, President Lincoln, Mother Teresa….need I go on. Enough said!
THANK YOU Linda and Mark.
Apparently some people weren’t bullied. I was bullied and I went through pure hell. Where are some of these people now. They’re now where they should be in a grave. Some died because of drug over dose, illnesses, etc. I have no sympathy for bullies and it’s time to take a stand against bullies. Kick them out of schools, let the parents teach them, lets see how far that goes.
Every parent and child should sign a form stating that bullying will not be tolerated in school, after school, cyber bullying or else where, if caught you are permantly home schooled and not be allowed to attend any university, college or any other academic school, or better yet create a school called “The Bully school” and they all have to wear dunce caps 24/7. So take your pick bullies. So grow up and get over yourself the “Princess”.
Condoning bullying? I took my share of lumps growing up, but didn’t feel I had the right to default into social and moral retardation…
Oh, and you’re welcome Germain.
As if, Sally! Jeeze, some people should really learn how to think before they speak..or type!! So..it’s my understanding that your jibberish means that say an 8 year old boy pushes another boy and calls him a name, he is to be kicked out of school FOREVER, one of his parents has to quit their job to now home school him and he’s NEVER allowed into any college or university to further his education???? Or..”better yet”, let’s create a place called “The Bully School” and put him in there and make him wear a “dunce cap 24/7”. Sounds to me you should take your dunce cap off!!
Holly crap Sally, I feel bad for your kids and if you don’t have any, maybe it’s for the best.
No doubt, huh Germain?!! Thank god all kids (in this country anyways) under the age of 18 are protected from people like Sally who would convince them to sign their life away on the dotted line just to be allowed into a public school, lmao. I do agree that something more does need to be done about bullying but it should be a temporary punishment. Jeeze, even murderers have a light at the end of the tunnel. They know that unless they do something severe they will be released in 25 years but the poor bully…shall be condemned to a life of barely scraping by cuz he couldn’t get into university. Yes…bullying is a problem but those who CHOOSE to allow it to happen to themselves contribute greatly to the problem. I mean, why is the bully going to stop shaking you down everyday for your lunch money when you readily hand it to him cuz he tells you too? Stand up for yourselves!
I was bullied too, humiliated in front of my schoolmates. I was smart enough to know that a few years of high school was only a small portion of my life and that I would be rid of them soon enough. I started using humor as a defense mechanism and I turned the jokes on them many times and by graduation, it had pretty much ended. A few years later, I met the worst of those guys in a bar. I had gotten a lot bigger then I was in high school since I was working manual labor. I don’t know if the feat that I would kick his ass or just remorse but he actually apologized. It was good enough for me since I had moved on a long time ago. What does kill you makes you stronger right.
I meant, what doesN’T kill you. sorry
I feel so sorry for all the bullies out there in the world. Basically they are Big Time Cowards. Think about it, they never work alone as they are too chicken to deal with (one to one – so to speak) They always need �back-up�� to do their dirty work. So if everyone decides to say �Hey you got a problem �� Deal with it yourself�� Then everything will be Okay. It Ends there! So be brave to say �Not doing it��.
This crap about later in life people go wow why did I do this or that, to me you knew exactly what you were doing then so stop being a freaking hyprocrate!! Life is to short. Just enjoy each others company and if others bug you just look away.
Lady Gaga �� Here��s to you for who you are. Never change unless you want to.
I’ll admit I’m not impressed with her style, but the girl is extremely talented with an awesome and powerful voice. It takes balls to dress the way she does, that kind of character ONLY shines through someone who has been wrung thru the wringer as a child.. I was made fun of too as a child, but once you can stand up again and keep on living the way you are, NO ONE can knock you down as an adult. 🙂 Keep on Shining Lady Gaga!!
For those who have never been publically mortified will never understand the pain of such a memory as being humiliated infront of your peers.ga ga came from a hard working family that worked their ass off to give her a good education and protection. I too went through something like that which I know I will always remember unfortunately. But through all that momentary pain I found that it creates the strongest desire to prove the others that they were wrong. I like Ga ga because we have a lot in common when it comes to bring on the outside.she made it through the wall people put infront of you when they say no. When I found out she had been bullied all it did was make me admire her more and bevausse of her triumphs I will never give up on my dreams. Ga ga you are an inspiration to us little girls who have the shittiest luck,the wrong hair color, the ones who can’t tan, and the ones who stood out. Thanks for never giving up. You made it girl.