Dad Afraid Lady GaGa Is Mentally Unstable

Thu, 10 December 2009 23:27:47 ET

'It wasn't really so easy for my dad, especially in the beginning,' the dance electronica singer shares to Barbara Walters about her father's reaction towards her stage performance.

Being known for her unique-but-often-criticized performances, Lady GaGa recently admitted that her stage antics made her father thought she was "mentally unstable". In an interview with Barbara Walters, the "Bad Romance" hitmaker opened up about what her father really felt towards her performance on stage.

"It wasn't really so easy for my dad, especially in the beginning," the 23-year-old recalled her father 's reaction after he watched her performed for the first time. She went on detailing, "We didn't talk for months after the first time he saw me play, and my mother told me he was afraid I was, like, mentally unstable."

The singer who claimed her fame through debut single "Just Dance" further mentioned that she and her father have been back on speaking term. She has even wrote a song for him called "Speechless". Of the song, she previously said, "[Speechless] was this plea to my father [to get open heart surgery]. I sent it to him. I have a lot of fans who are really lovely, young, troubled fans, but I want to remind them that you only get one set of parents."

GaGa also made use of the interview aired on Wednesday night, December 9 to answer people's doubt on the sincerity behind her bizarre pop star persona. She said, "[I want to clear up the fact] that [people think] I am artificial and attention seeking, when the truth is that every bit of me is devoted to love and art and I aspire to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger."

Lady GaGa sat down with Barbara Walters for the latter's "10 Most Fascinating People of 2009" special. The singer whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has been listed at #2 on Walters' list. She comes behind first lady Michelle Obama, and beats out two other controversial figures, Kate Gosselin and Adam Lambert.

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