High School Bullies Threw Lady Gaga in Trash Can

By Kiki Von Glinow Posted May 20th 2011 01:50PM

We knew her songwriting ammo had to come from somewhere and now Lady Gaga is telling all in her forthcoming MTV special 'Lady Gaga: Inside On The Outside.' Mother monster even reminisced about her own days of high school bullying -- and one event in particular that left her feeling like literal rubbish.

After meeting up with some high school friends at a local pizzeria, Gaga, then Stefani Germanotta, found herself helpless and at the hands of her adolescent bullies.

"The boys picked me up and threw me in the trash can on the street, on the corner of my block while all the other girls from the school were leaving and could see me in the trash."

The pop prodigy remembers fighting back the tears, not wanting her tormentors to see the way their bullying affected her.

"Everybody was laughing and I was even laughing. I had that nervous giggle ... I remember even one of the girls looking at me like 'are you about to cry? You're pathetic.' That's what it felt like, you're pathetic."

But the future queen of pop was too embarrassed to tell anyone, even her parents, about the incident.

"It didn't sink in with me how bullying affected me until later in my life. I knew that it affected me deeply but it wasn't until a little bit later that I realized how much it affect me and how much it was still very present."

But Gaga realized that it is with sharing her personal struggles with her fans and in turn hearing about their hardships that allowed her the cathartic experience she had been craving.

"I think it took me to get to know my fans and to see similar struggles in them to access that wound in myself," she explained.

Tune into MTV's 'Lady Gaga: Inside On the Outside' special on May 26 at 9/8c.

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Saturday 21 May

By patardugno

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To change what I say, by only posting some of it,...I am sure that's illegal.
Lady Gaga sure is trying hard to go to Hell.

By mission76

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What the hell is wrong with people nowadays? Seriously move on with your life. Crying about a minor incident that happened a decade ago is pathetic. Get over it and grow the f up

Deb,

Do you mean, only Lady Gag should be allowed to voice her opinion through art,... & everyone who is apalled by it should be silenced so she can claim they are just in awe of her psychosis?!
Surely she made her freakish video to stir up conversations & she wants to hear the feedback that her art generates. If not she must be the 1st artis who doesn't want to hear the reactions to their art!

By rotten rollin

Art? Art? Art?

Yeah, sure, Madonna and bust, Goo Goo is goo

By Andy

at least it wasn't in the toilet... only five that got us very upset... and you know they - the school - wouldn't even tell us who they were so we could illl them!! and he didn't either!!

By Mark

I mayt throw her music in the trash but never her as a person. These punks were bullies if it really happened . I dislike her and her music but dislike punk azz bullies even more. They are the ones that need to be thrown in the trash.

By Angela

I am still trying to figure out why she is so popular, aside from "trying" to be outrageous. I mean, she's no Madonna, she's no Beyonce` -- she's just a singer, and not a very good one either.

By Alycia

She's making it up!!!

I am sooooooo tired of Lady Goo Goo.

Can someone please turn the channel, please flush the toilet, please pull the plug?

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Elvis and Rotten Rollin

By benwa

She will have more money than I will ever have. But, she is still a disgusting skank.

Sunday 22 May

By mr boogee

It probably never happened. This freak will say-and do anything to get attention. Even if it did, those baaaaaad baaaaaaad bullies really had her number!

By kejavas

I don't believe her........i think she is just making it up. So what, bullying is part of life. Get back at them like she did and show them how successful she is.... i think she is trying to play the victim

By stinkfistula

On the off chance she's telling the truth exactly
what is the point?

By PT

I agree with themeeker.

By JEB BUCKINGHAM

She should've married Oscar the Grouch. He lives in a trash can.

By Chris

Wow, well at least somebody got it right and to think so many years ago too. It's a shame she actually needs to be hit by a brick to get the point though otherwise we could of been spared all of her trash she put out now.

She doesn't say WHY they threw her in the trash & she claims it was in broad day light in front of the school?! Seems odd & half baked,... like her.

By Liz

I agree. She's very phony and is only trying to relate to kids and maybe adults who had very troubled teen years.

By Pandoraah

So what reason did the bullies have for trashing her? That's very nasty. Why were they so mean to her? I would have spoken up for her in high school.

By awoke

to each his own! She is different but she knows how to get attention and use her talents and ideas to make money. Bullies most always pick on the weak, different and non-conformist. If you dont like her, turn her off, she is not pushing herself on anyone. She is being herself and having fun doing what she enjoys.

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