Lady Gaga Gets Emotional on ‘A Star Is Born’ Red Carpet, Recalls Feeling Ugly
“A Star Is Born,” which premiered Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, follows Lady Gaga as Ally, an unknown singer-songwriter who meets Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), an established musician who becomes Ally’s mentor and helps nuture her career as it begins to take off.Lady Gaga told Variety‘s Marc Malkin on the carpet for the premiere that she recognizes part of herself in Ally.“I see so much of myself when I was younger, when I did not believe in myself, when I was bullied in school, I felt ugly, and my only escape was music and that’s why I started to sing and write songs and act was because I wanted an escape from all of that pain,” Gaga said.
“Little Stefani right now, she’s very humbled and she’s very surprised.”In the film, Ally has to learn to navigate her career as it starts to flourish,
