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Lady Gaga's Dad Paid Half Her Rent, And Other Fun Facts
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Jen Carlson
Published Jun 2, 2011
Modified Jun 2, 2011
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Photoshop composite of what it probably looked like when Lady Gaga moved to the LES in the early aughts. Bad old days!
Recently Lady Gaga documented her return to the Lower East Side, traveling back to her old digs at 176 Stanton Street... and now she digs even deeper to her roots in this mini documentary, Inside the Outside, which aired on MTV.
In her little rock doc, she explains the perils of growing up wealthy and living four blocks from Lincoln Center, saying, "I became rebellious... I was kinda bad, I would go down to all kinds of places with my friends in the Village. When I grew up by Lincoln Center I wasn't able to access all of the things that were on the Lower East Side [ed. note: MTA]... it was like I needed to go fuck myself up and go lick the ground for a couple of years to understand New York City, and understand a whole different side of the pavement." Back in the early aughts that Lower East Side was rough!
Still, Gaga braved the mean streets on her own, and eventually even moved there, barely able to support herself with her dad only paying half of her $1,100 rent. Check out more of her sob story below.
Meanwhile, this Saturday the Lower East Side streets of her past will be flooded with Gaga look-a-likes, at least if all goes according to plan. The Go Gaga Look-A-Like Competition will be taking place at 6:30 p.m., but the party starts three hours earlier (more details in the below flyer).
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