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Lady Gaga Calls in Sick and Then Performs on Oprah

Purdue University students have a reason to be pissed at Lady Gaga. The singer cancelled her show at the school on Thursday at the last minute, claiming to be sick. Then today, less than 24 hours later, Gaga took the stage at The Oprah Winfrey Show looking not even slightly ill. In fact, she downed a plate of chicken and waffles before her performance. The Purdue concert has been rescheduled, but I’m thinking that there was no illness and homegirl just wanted to rest up for her big day with Lady O.

As for the Oprah performance, which I will totally be watching, Gaga performed a medley of her hits and according to the AP, “at one point, swung a gold, spiked ball on a chain into the windshield of a taxi on the stage.” Sounds awesome, but definitely not like the behavior of a woman who was too sick to fulfill her contractual obligations just shortly before.

Also, I don’t know if musicians realize what a big deal it is when they cancel a show. I will never forget when Christina Aguilera and Destiny’s Child bailed on a show when I was fifteen while I was already at the venue. Totally devastating, especially consider the fact that I was living in the middle of nowhere and even just the idea of Christina and Beyonce performing just yards in front of me was the most exciting thing to happen all year. I wonder if Lady Gaga would have cancelled if she thought about all the drunken college kids who had been waiting what seemed like their whole lives to get their grind on while she performed “Just Dance” in the same room as them.

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    • Apparently Oprah has a live show on Fridays — not taped. Other days are taped well in advance. Adam Lambert and Susan Boyle, for example, taped last week and are appearing next Tues.

  • Isn’t it completely different to perform for 5 minutes than to perform for an hour or so?

    Yes, it is.

    • Yeah. It’s a 2 hour show.
      And she is called a ‘performer’ for a reason. Probably at least partially because of her ability to accurately portray something other than average boring human with sniffles.
      meh. Lady Gaga buys pizza for fans. She exhibits work from her fans. She did the AMA’s and Leno within hours of eachother. I don’t think she’s trying to slight anybody. I think she’s probably just sick.

      But heck yes on the watching the Oprah interview.

      • Yeah, when I saw her she worked her ass off. She actually sings, and does A LOT on stage. So, I believe her.

  • I was at the Purdue concert — which she canceled 5 minutes before she was supposed to come on-stage — and the audience was not just drunken college students. My husband & I aren’t college kids; we drove 4 hrs each way to go to her show, took time off work, and paid for a hotel room (our Christmas present to ourselves). Others drove even further. If Gaga canceled for no real reason, then I’m quite upset at the waste of our time. The fact that she didn’t go to the hospital after supposedly being so sick makes me suspicious — and then to see that she performed just hours later on Oprah and appeared fine is also not good. Diva behavior? Drugs? Eating disorder? Anxiety disorder? Who knows – but she should have postponed Oprah out of respect for her Purdue concert fans. She also canceled her show tomorrow in NJ. Does she think we don’t matter?

    • Hey, i read your comment….Due to her hectic schedule gaga’s oprah performance was taped before it aired… It was taped while she was in chicago for 3 days performing. I know this for a fact because i was AT the show…It was a birthday present, i drove out to chicago w/ my mom and sister, and we attended the oprah taping and the last night of her chicago shows… I’m actually furious w/ Oprah for not coming to gagas defense over this.. I know she’s trying to keep it so people believe her show is live (especially on fridays when it usually is live) but, considering how much criticism gaga has recieved over this…Oprah should open her damn mouth and say something.

  • Don’t you think that you are all being very selfish? Lady Gaga is awesome to her fans and appeared to be really upset that she got sick and couldnt preform. Who knows she could have known that Oprah was a HUGE deal and she couldnt bail out on that obligation so she gritted through it in true gaga style, maybe feeling shitty the whole time. We act like entertainers are robots that can just keep going and going and going. Lady Gaga has never acted this flakey before so what right do we have to jump down her throat about this?

  • She also just cancelled her Borgata A/C gig tomorrow, it was a fund raiser for alternate lifestyle couples rights. My friend who had front row is NOT happy about this.

  • Since I found out she was a friend of Piggy Hilton I’ve stopped listening to her, she’s got to be a world class idiot if she is hanging out with that vile excuse for a human. I’d get my money back and consider it a blessing.

  • She seemed pretty contrite on her twitter, she said she had passed out earlier that day and that the people around her literally wouldn’t let her go out on stage. And yeah, performing a two hour show is WAY different than performing two songs on a talk show. I have no doubt that that was why she had to cancel one but not the other.

  • hey smart ass gaga collasped and had trouble breathing right before her concert which is why she had to cancel and im pretty sure she came on oprah because its a whole lot easier sitting doing and interview then doing 1 performance instead of an almost 2 hour concert

  • I thought her performance on Oprah was awful. Once you watch it you will see. She looked exhausted and could barely swing that spiked ball into the taxi. So I definitely believe she was sick.

  • yeah, to reiterate what others have said, she did not look too good on Oprah. her performance was very noticeably below her usual standard, she was visibly exhausted, and she had a quasi-wardrobe malfunction which seemed to frustrate her even more. and even when she was just sitting and talking to Oprah, she looked, for the most part, downright tired, sad, and ill.

    so i think she really did get significantly sick at the purdue show, but she only cancelled it because her “people” (haus?) made her; she wasn’t the one who wanted to. i think the same goes for the upcoming shows that got cancelled/postponed. via twitter/facebook, she seemed very upset that shows had to be cancelled, she just wants to be able to perform for her fans more than anything.

    i think it’s just that she pushes herself way too hard because she wants to please her “little monsters” but eventually all the mental, physical, and emotional stress from working that way would catch up to her, and apparently it has and she got sick. i hope she feels better and knows how to balance things out better so she won’t get so sick again.

  • Hey Rosie: “Diva behavior? Drugs? Eating disorder? Anxiety disorder?”
    You’re a douchebag. You can’t just go around listing random rumours about people out of nowhere, even celebrities. Those are serious, hurtful, and completely unfounded speculations as far as the public yet knows.

    How dare you. You should be ashamed of yourself. You sound like one of those Enquirer-devouring, Perez-obsessed character-assassination-loving shrew housewives with nothing better to do all day.

    MOVING ON. If Gaga was sick on Oprah she didn’t sound it – however the performance was crap, with the shoulder malfunction and the rushing through a confusing and poorly arranged medley instead of performing one song well. You can be sick and still plot a good concept in the weeks leading up.

  • This isnt the first time he has cancelled. Last year she cancelled her dc show for american idol and did not honor already purchased tickets. Go figure.

  • Gaga was sick, i am sure she was,
    come on people just look her face in the interview she looked like she was sad, or tired, or something.

  • Umm, to all of you defending rumors about lady gaga

    she was the one who wanted to be a star in the first place

    which includes all the rumors………….

    and like 24 hours of work everyday……………………