How Oprah helped Lady Gaga overcome ’stage fright’
By ANIThursday, May 6, 2010
NEW YORK - Lady Gaga’s inclination towards bizarre behaviour reportedly took another turn at Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The pop diva was slated to perform at Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s annual fete, co-hosted this year by Oprah Winfrey and Gap creative director Patrick Robinson, but she refused to step out of the green room for hours.
Finally coaxed by Terence Koh and Oprah, she came on-stage.
The guests for the evening included Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller and Mayor Bloomberg.
Gaga explained how she got the gig.
“I’ll never forget when Anna Wintour called me to play at this event, she called me and said, ‘I would like you to play at the Met gala, but I just want to make sure, because I’ve seen you perform before, that you won’t be swearing during the performance,” The New York Post quoted Gaga as saying. “So Anna, I will do my [bleep]-ing best!”
Later at an after-party at the Mark Hotel, Pharrell Williams, Sean Combs, Usher and Justin Timberlake ended up having an impromptu jam session with DJ Cassidy.
Jude Law, Sienna Miller and January Jones were among those at the Mark, but it was Katy Perry who attracted the most attention, wearing a dress that had LED lights.
“She was wearing a dress that had LED lights, and the switch was near her boobs. She was literally having people grope her to turn the dress on,” said a witness. (ANI)
