Posted on 24th January 2009 12:00PM
Lady GaGa's dad thought she was crazy.
The 22-year-old US singer revealed that the first time her father saw her perform, she was wearing "a leopard-thong-fringed bikini with a sequined high-waisted belt and granny panties, and it was so wrong it was amazing".
The 'Just Dance' singer - who penned songs for Britney Spears and the Pussycat Dolls before she was famous - said: "He told me I did a great job. But he was shocked. And alarmed. My mother told me he broke down and told her he thought I was crazy. Really crazy.
"Later that week my family said, 'It was just really hard to watch that show and we think you've lost your mind and we don't know what to do.' "
The singer - whose real name is Joanne Stefani Germanotta -was battling with a drug problem at the time but says she thought her father had no idea of her substance abuse.
She said: "I didn't think he knewbecause I thought I was slick as f**k".But he was like, 'You're f**king up, kid.' So I stopped. I didn't stop completely, but I stopped for a while completely. And I would never fall into the hole that I did at the time."
Despite regretting her past behaviour, the 'Just Dance' hitmaker believes her drug taking had some benefits for her work.
She explained: "I was just being nostalgic and creative and thought that I was Edie Sedgwick and making music."
"I don't know, I wouldn't necessarily encourage anyone to do it, but I do think that when you struggle, that's when your art gets great."
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