Lady Gaga was given an extra special birthday present by her manager’s before her show last night at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. The singer was gifted one of five pairs of ruby slippers made for Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, which are valued at over forty thousand dollars.
Gaga told the audience that the gift represented more than one of the most iconic movies of all time. When she was in high school, she tried out for the role of Dorothy in the school play and wound up losing it to a school bully. She explained, “I wanted to be Dorothy so bad. I was in 8th grade and she was a senior. I definitely deserved to get it, but I didn’t get it. I was one of the people in the chorus, the worst role. On behalf of myself and all of those bullied around the world, now these ruby slippers are mine. When you don’t feel like Dorothy today, maybe you feel like someone on the chorus or the Scarecrow – just know you will have opportunities in your real life to change things and maybe someone will hand you a pair of ruby slippers.”
Pretty heartwarming story, I guess, but damn! Gaga needs to let go of high school. She’s performing on stage at the Staples Center while also explaining that she’s upset she didn’t get a big enough role in the school musical. She gets to be Lady Gaga and the girl from her high school is probably living in Pennsylvania and popping out some dude’s kids. Time to move on.
The childhood story sounds phony and calculated to me.
poor gaga got “the worst role” in 8th grade? you can’t fucking pop out of your mom’s vagina and expect everyone to know how worthy of stardom you are.
You got the quote incredibly wrong.
the ruby slippers were not the real ones from any part of the movie… there replicas…. the maker told me abt this…
you all are hateful little fucks. let her be and say whatever she wants to.
Who’s Lady Gaga? What ruby slippers?