My biggest fear is being alone -Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga: The Isolation of Fame

No one wants to be alone. Being a pop star can be very isolating. Just ask Lady Gaga.

Her rise to fame in 2009-10 was unprecedented. She was one of the first pop stars to use the internet effectively. The media frenzy around her was relentless, filled with TMZ photos and gossip blogs.

The public's appetite for her was insatiable. In just three years, she changed her looks and sounds constantly. One critic noted she was "speed-running Madonna's entire career."

As her fame grew, headlines became more outrageous. There were claims about satanic rituals and secret identities. Some even said she planned to saw off her leg "for fashion."

At the 2010 MTV Awards, she wore a dress made of meat. Many missed the joke; she presented herself as tabloid fodder. On stage, fans worshipped her as their idol, the Little Monsters.

However, that kind of adulation can feel empty. Gaga shared her feelings in the 2017 documentary *Five Foot Two*. She told her stylist, “I’m alone, Brandon. Every night.”

She explained how she went from constant attention to total silence. Now at 38, she's engaged to tech entrepreneur Michael Polansky. Gaga admits those years of solitude frightened her.

“My biggest fear was doing life on my own,” she said in a BBC interview. “Meeting my partner has been the greatest gift.”