Lady Gaga Reacts to Ex-Classmate's Facebook Group Claiming She'd 'Never Be Famous': 'This Is Why You Don't Give Up'

Mar. 15, 2025

Lady Gaga performs in Las Vegas in August 2023.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty

Kevin Mazur/Getty

Lady Gaga, you will always be famous.

The TikTok post featured two photos — a screenshot of the Facebook group, long known among Gaga’s fans, and a picture of the “Die with a Smile” singer at the 2019 Academy Awards overlayed with a list featuring many honors she’s received in her career.

“Some people I went to college [with] made this way back when,” commented Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, underneath the images. “this is why you can’t give up when people doubt you or put you down—gotta keep going.”

TheJoker: Folie à Deuxstar learned to play music as a child and began performing as a teenager, later becoming known in the downtown Manhattan club scene in the mid-2000s.

Lady Gaga performs in Los Angeles in September 2022.Jeff Kravitz/Getty

Jeff Kravitz/Getty

“Gaga is this stronger individual part of myself that I discovered being young in New York — loving music, meeting with young artists, working with musicians, with writers, studying the scene and being involved in the lifestyle,” she said at the time. “I started to call myself Gaga. [It] was the nickname I had at my best.”

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Lady Gaga performs in Paris in July 2024.John Walton/PA Images via Getty

John Walton/PA Images via Getty

Gaga is currently promoting her leading role as Harleen “Lee” Quinzel, a.k.a.Harley QuinninJoker: Folie à Deux, but sheposted to Instagramon Sept. 3 and teased the release date for the first new single from her upcoming seventh album.

She shared a photo of her Venice Film Festival schedule for the week, including a welcome dinner, theJokersequel’s world premiere screening, press conference, red carpet and European press junket.

After the festival, Gaga’s schedule noted thatJoker: Folie à Deux, also starringJoaquin Phoenixin its titular role,is out in theaters on Oct. 4 — and the “LG7 first single” will be released sometime the same month.

source: people.com