On Tuesday, September 14, an unauthorized biography of Lady Gaga titled Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga, is set to hit shelves. The book, written by Maureen Callahan, covers everything from the Kanye West tour scandal to Gaga’s daily antics.
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Callahan describes Gaga as a control freak who is passive-aggressive and non-confrontational, having fired over 150 workers in the course of a year. She says that one day she may be praising you for good work, and the next you’re being fired for some unknown reason.
Gaga, who was originally signed with Interscope as a songwriter because she was “not pretty enough to be a pop star,” completely changed her image in order to further her career. The book claims that her outlandish image was conceived to distract from her looks, which were openly discussed as a liability.
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In an excerpt from the book, Callahan details Gaga’s strange behavior with her former assistant, Angela Ciemny, who was the wife (now ex-wife) of her tour manager:
“In reality, says Angela, she wound up sleeping with Gaga more often than her own husband [tour manager David Ciemny]. She says there was nothing sexual about it; Gaga couldn’t sleep without someone next to her in bed. Around the time Angela had been hired, Gaga and Matt Williams… had broken up… She kept Williams on her team, though, and kept things as professional as possible…For the most part, she struggled.
“Angela tried to help. She says she assumed an ‘older sister’ role with Gaga…. ‘We literally…we would do our make-up together every morning and get ready for bed together at night,’ Angela says. They’d also take showers together, she says, because they’d have so little time to get out the door in the morning. But it was also, she says, a way to bond.
“The few times Angela would start to go back to her and David’s room at the end of a day, she says, Gaga would spiral. ‘I would say, ‘Gaga, I have a husband to go home to. I’ll be in the room next door.’ And she’d call and text me: ‘I miss you Ange, can you come back?’ And she would tell Dave, ‘Can your wife please stay with me tonight?’
“[So] I would sleep in her room, because what the point of going to me own room with David when I have to wake up in an hour and be here?’”
Captivating! But can you really believe this crap? Gaga never ceases to amaze me with her weird behavior, but I think Callahan is after the moolah.
With that said, I’ll definitely be reading her book. (I can’t help it. I’m drawn to the word “unauthorized.”)
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