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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady GaGa has revealed that her father saved her from a deadly cocaine addiction several years ago, and since the mini intervention, she has lived a much healthier lifestyle.

In recent interviews, GaGa admitted that she spent hours snorting cocaine by herself in her New York City apartment, playing songs by The Cure on repeat. The superstar said, "My father is a really powerful man, a telecom guy. So he looked at me one day and said, 'You’re f*ckin' up, kid.' And I looked at him and thought, 'How does he know that I’m high right now?' And he never said a word about the drugs, not one word. But he said, 'I just wanna tell you that anyone you meet while you’re like this, and any friend that you make in the future while you are with this thing, you will lose.' And we never talked about it again."

GaGa says she began doing coke regularly in 2005 after dropping out of NYU, and at one point she even thought she was going to die. “My cocaine soundtrack was The Cure. I loved all their music, but I listened to this one song on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with me until my friends came over and said, ‘Are you doing this alone? 'Um, yes. Me and my mirror.' But I was able to stop, because I was panicking more on the drugs than I was sober. So I'm fine now."

In an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year, GaGa also said she used drugs to drive the inspiration for her eccentric hair and makeup. She said, "It was quite sick. I suppose that’s where the vanity of the album came from."

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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady GaGa attended the Human Rights Campaign dinner on Saturday night in Washington D.C., where she performed a cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" and paid tribute to Matthew Shepard, the young gay man who was brutally murdered in a hate crime over a decade ago.

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Lady GaGa switched around some of the lyrics in the song to reflect her views on gay rights, and the following day she spoke at the National Equality March, where she said, "[The HRC event] was about the march and about the future and about reform and legislation, and President Obama gave us an incredible, incredible speech where he really, really took a stand against hatred and inequality."

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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - We already knew Lady GaGa was going to appear on an upcoming episode of the CW's Gossip Girl, and here's the first shot of the pop star on set with stars Penn Badgley and Leighton Meester.

Lady GaGa will perform her new single “Bad Romance" on the episode, which airs on November 16.

image courtesy of Giovanni Rufino/The CW

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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady GaGa stopped by Best Buy in Hollywood last night to greet her fans and sign autographs, but the pop star went the extra mile and ordered 80 pizzas for the hordes of admirers camped outside the store!

GaGa spent nearly $1,000 at Papa John's, and she later tweeted, "Sending all my little monsters little pizzas for waiting all night for me at best buy. I hope you're hungry...eat up I love u!"

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Earlier in the day, Lady GaGa performed her new single, "Bad Romance" on The Jay Leno Show, and afterwards she sat down with Jay to talk about everything from her childhood to Catholic school to tabloid gossip. We don't know what someone slipped into her tea, but she came across as surprisingly normal and likable!

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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - After an incredible year, Lady GaGa topped the list of MTV's "Women of the Year" for 2009.

GaGa was EVERYWHERE this year, from the top of the Billboard charts to award shows to Gossip Girl and, of course, on X17online!

Kudos to GaGa for being voted top Woman of the Year over at MTV.

The rest of the list was rounded out by:

9. The Kardashians
8. Susan Boyle
7. Kristen Stewart
6. Britney Spears
5. Miley Cyrus
4. Beyoncé
3. Rihanna
2. Taylor Swift
1. Lady Gaga

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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Rumor has it that Sir Elton John will be joining Lady GaGa onstage Sunday night for a surprise duet!

Page Six reports that John's been tight-lipped about the rumored onstage hook-up, but we think we can expect another amazing performance out of the pair, like the one Elton surprised us with back in 2001 with Eminem.

We're not sure what I'm more excited for, what they're going to sing or what they're going to wear!

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (X17online) - Fans of Lady Gaga can get their poker faces ready. She has announced new dates for the North American portion of the Monster Ball Tour.

Just last week, Gaga released the 9-minute video for her latest single, Telephone. The $300 - 400 thousand dollar masterpiece also featured Beyonce.

This is the pop star's first arena tour and will include 31 shows throughout Canada and the U.S. The tour, sponsored by Virgin Mobile, will kick off on June 28 in Montreal. Tickets go on sale beginning Friday, March 19.

Here is what the concert's promoter Live Nation had to say:

"Lady Gaga has set out to revolutionize pop music and with her new production she continues to do exactly that. We're thrilled to take the Monster Ball to fans around the world."

Gaga's label, Interscope Records, says a 3-D concert and DVD is in the works.

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (X17online) - Lady Gaga will be taking a break from her own Monster Ball Tour to join Lollapalooza 2010 in August.

The lineup also includes Green Day, The Strokes, Soundgarden and Arcade Fire. This year's summer music event will take place in Chicago.

This is Lady Gaga's first time playing at Lollapalooza, however both Green Day and Arcade Fire have been involved before. Soundgarden was also involved with Lolla back in 1992 and 1996. This will be the band's first time performing together since they split back in 1997. The Strokes will make their big return, as well, having not performed together for four years.

Lollapalooza 2010 will take place August 6-8 in Chicago's Grant Park and will include some 120 artists. Ticket prices and the official lineup can be found on the Lollapalooza website.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Glee's second season will feature the cast singing Lady Gaga's Telephone, Poison's Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Travis McCoy's Billionaire and Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind.

The show's music supervisor, P.J. Bloom, says Ryan Murphy has big plans for Lady Gaga, in particular. Bloom adds, “Ryan’s a huge Lady Gaga fan. I suspect we’re going to continue to look to her to be part of the show.” Loves it!

As for the upcoming Britney Spears episode, five of Brit's songs will be performed, however the specific songs have not been revealed.

Season 2 premieres on September 21st.

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NEW YORK, New York (X17online) - HBO will air Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour At Madison Square Garden on May 7.

The concert, which will be filmed during Gaga's stop in the Big Apple, will be taped on February 21 and 22.

Sue Naegle, HBO's entertainment president, called Lady G "the single most exciting music talent on the scene today." She added that the cable network will create "unique new elements" for the show.

Gaga will be choreographed by Lauriann Gibson who worked with the 24-year-old singer for most of her videos including Paparazzi, Telephone and Bad Romance.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady Gaga is scheduled to take over the Croisette on Wednesday for her performance of "Judas" to a live crowd for Canal Plus' popular show Le Grand Journal . Gaga will also be answering questions from Michael Denisot, the show's host, and other French presenters there to host the show from the annual French film festival.

Adding more star power to Cannes, Kanye West, is set to perform at the festival the following week.

Meanwhile, Gaga will be featured on American Idol Wednesday, May 11, as a mentor to the final four contestants.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Tony Bennett's latest album will feature a collaboration with an unlikely partner: Lady Gaga.

The album, Duets II LP, drops September 20.

84-year-old Bennett is certainly of a different generation than 25-year-old Gaga, but both are international music superstars.

Gaga's new album, Born This Way, was released May 23. It has sold more than 1 million copies so far, exceeding predictions. But, the full album was temporarily offered on Amazon.com for only 99 cents, which brought a boost in sales.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) -- According to figures released Wednesday by Nielsen SoundScan, album sales rose 3.6 percent during the first half of 2011.

That's the first time since 2004 that sales have been positive for the record industry, which has been suffering a decade-long slide downward due to Internet piracy and declining album sales -- with the decline in album sales due to services such as iTunes that allow for listeners to choose individual songs over whole albums.

And it appears that, as Beyonce would say, girls run the world: Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Adele and Nicki Minaj have all moved millions of albums this year as well as millions of digital units.

Still, men are not far behind. Eminem's latest album has been a hit, and Bruno Mars, along with country stars Mumford & Sons and Jason Aldean have done well, though they haven't produced the millions that the ladies are getting.

The industry is hoping the increase will sustain itself, with new albums from Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Jay-Z, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Will Smith and Coldplay out soon.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Justin Bieber is joining forces with Britney Spears, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kanye West and over 150 other stars to use social media to bring attention to the drought and food crisis in East Africa.

They will take to their Facebook and Twitter pages on August 9 in support of Save the Children's new campaign. The region, and especially Somalia, is facing one of its worst droughts in decades, with over 10 million people effected. The music, sports, fashion and pop culture stars goals is to reach their combined 730 million fans and followers to raise awareness to the tragedy.

The campaign features the 1973 Bob Marley song "High Tide or Low Time," picked specifically by the Marley family. The singer's widow Rita Marley said:

"Not one child should be denied food nor water. Not one child should suffer. Along with Save the Children, we must stand up together as friends to put a stop to this, to feed our children and to save their lives."

Save The Children is a non-profit organization that raises funds for food, water and medicine for impoverished children in the United States and around the world. They are working with agencies to deliver aid across East Africa, especially in Somalia where one million children are facing starvation if they do not receive food immediately.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - China’s Ministry of Culture has posted a list of 100 songs that will be banned in the country beginning September 15, including Lady Gaga’s “Judas” and Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls).”

The ministry is demanding that the songs be removed from Chinese websites because they had not been submitted for mandatory government screening, which is intended to protect China’s “national cultural security” by filtering out imported entertainment content that contains subversive political or ideological messages.

Sites that do not comply with the new rule will be prosecuted, though the penalties were not specified.

Other songs on the ban list include: Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way,” Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night,” and Britney Spears’s “Burning Up.”

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady Gaga will ring in the New Year with Ryan Seacrest, ABC announced Thursday.

The pop sensation will perform in Times Square for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2012.

The television special will also feature Fergie as a West Coast correspondent, hosting the New Years celebration and musical performances from Los Angeles.

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2012 will mark the 40th anniversary of Dick Clark’s first New Year's special.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady Gaga, Usher, and Bono have signed on to perform for Bill Clinton’s upcoming benefit concert.

The concert, entitled "A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation,” will celebrate the multifaceted accomplishments of the William J. Clinton Foundation, which include increasing access to education, decreasing the cost of HIV/AIDS treatment, and battling climate change.

The William J. Clinton Foundation's benefit concert will be held at the Hollywood Bowl in L.A. on Oct. 15.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) -- Lady Gaga, Adela, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and a few more select celebs can now count themselves as Guiness Book of World Records champs.

The 2012 edition of the book reveals Adele has garnered three records; first female to get two singles and two albums in the U.K. top five at the same time, first album in U.K. chart history to sell 3 million copies in one calendar year and most consecutive weeks with the No. 1 album in the U.K. for a solo female.

For her records, Adele beat out the likes of Madonna, Alanis Morisette and Shania Twain.

Lady Gaga made history for social meda -- she got the Most Followers on Twitter record with 11,259,372 as of June 29 (at press time she was at 13,469,754).

Justin Bieber's "Baby" was named the Most Popular Video of Any Kind Online -- it had 463,820,304 views as of February 16, 2011.

Additional famous names in this year's book include The Black Eyed Peas, J.K. Rowling, Glee, Rihanna, Willow Smith, Lil Wayne and U2.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) -- Lady Gaga is dominating this year's MTV Europe Music Awards with six nominations.

The ceremony will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 6.

Katy Perry and Bruno Mars have four nominations each, while British Adele and Justin Bieber have three each.

Lady Gaga and Katy Perry are both up for Best Live, Best Pop and Best Female, as well as Best Song categories, with Perry nominated for “Firework” and Gaga for “Born This Way.”

Gaga is also nominated for Best Video for “Born This Way." Bruno Mars is up for Best New Artist, Best Male, Best Push and Best Song for “Grenade.”

Adele has been nominated for Best Female, Best Song and Best Video for “Rolling In The Deep”, and Justin Bieber will compete for Best Pop, Best Male and Biggest Fans.

The Biggest Fans award is new. Viewers can vote online for all awards.

NEW YORK, New York (X17online) - Lady Gaga is suing a company that's trying to use her name for cosmetics and jewelry.

Gaga filed her claim in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday against Excite Worldwide for attempting to trademark the name "Lady Gaga By Design."

The suit claims that the company knows that they their application will never be approved by the US Patent and Trademark office, but they're still moving forward with the request. Due to this confusion, Gaga's own request for jewelry and fragrances hasn't been approved.

Gaga wants Excite to be banned from filing further applications with her name in the request, and the suit also seeks unspecified financial damages.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - A Lady Gaga biopic is in the works, according to Deadline.

Fame Monster: The Lady Gaga Story is being developed by Lifetime and will follow the transformation of aspiring musician Stefani Germanotta into pop icon Lady Gaga.

The flick will be based on Maureen Callahan’s biography Poker Face: The Rise And Rise Of Lady Gaga.

LONDON, UK (X17online) - Lady Gaga has won an injunction to stop the release of a single by cartoon character Lady Goo Goo.

Created by British children’s website Moshi Monsters, Lady Goo Goo is a singing cartoon whose song lyrics include "my crazy outfits seem to shock” and "my stroller's pretty and my diapers are silk, I throw my toys out if I don't get my milk.”

Lady Gaga argued that the caricature would result in consumer confusion, and Moshi Monsters is now banned from "promoting, advertising, selling, distributing or otherwise making available to the public" the musical work of Lady Goo Goo.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady Gaga has announced that she and her mother have plans to launch the Born This Way Foundation.

The organization will work to combat bullying and promote empowerment among youth.

“My mother and I have initiated a passion project. We call it the Born This Way Foundation,” Lady Gaga said in a statement. “Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.”

The Born This Way Foundation has already secured the California Endowment, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as sponsors.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady Gaga came out on top at Sunday night’s MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The eccentric pop star performed “Marry The Night” on top of a moon sculpture and took home four awards, including best female act, best fans, and best song and video for “Born This Way.”

"Thank you for believing in my vision; the success of Born This Way has changed my life," Gaga told the audience.

Justin Bieber fared well, too, picking up two awards for best male act and best pop act.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady Gaga has parted ways with her longtime creative director, Laurieann Gibson.

Gaga and Gibson have collaborated since Gaga first landed a record deal with Interscope Records, but their professional relationship has reportedly ended due to personal conflicts.

Richard Jackson, who had already been choreographing for Gaga, will take over Gibson’s role.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Oprah Winfrey will join Lady Gaga this Wednesday for the launch of Gaga's Born This Way Foundation.

Along with U.S Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the talk show host and the pop star will gather at Harvard's Graduate School of Education to debut the foundation, which is centered on addressing self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development through research, education, and advocacy.

The goal is to explore the most effective ways to create a culture of tolerance and empowerment. Spiritual guru Deepak Chopra and Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree will also be in attendance.

Gaga has long been an outspoken advocate for anti-bullying.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Lady Gaga is the first person to reach 20 million followers on Twitter, surpassing her closest competitor Justin Bieber by two million followers.

The "Bad Romance" singer opened her account in 2008, and since then has used the social networking site to connect with her diehard fans, who she calls her "Little Monsters."

Whereas most celebrities allow their Twitter accounts to be managed by another party, Gaga claims she is the only person posting to her account. Although other celebrities, like Justin Bieber, tweet more often than Gaga, her fans are following the singer at a more rapid rate.

Gaga frequently uses her Twitter account to post messages of acceptance and praise for her fans, in addition to releasing information about her music, tours, and appearances.

Coincidentally, the top 5 most-followed people are all musicians. Gaga is in the lead, with Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Shakira, and Rihanna rounding out the list.