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.